Shocking Footage: Children In Islamic School Taught 'Correct' Methods To Beat Their Wives, With Slippers, Kicks, Sticks And Even A Toothbrush

A viral video circulating on X has sparked outrage after appearing to show schoolchildren role-playing domestic violence against wives, complete with on-screen Hindi instructions. The clip, shared by the account @IfindRetards (which has nearly a million followers), has racked up thousands of likes and views, with the poster declaring: “They’re teaching school kids the correct way to beat their wives. These people are incompatible with western society. Stop importing these retards.”

The roughly 30-second video, filmed in what appears to be a madrasa or religious classroom in South Asia, features boys and girls in traditional attire. Children take turns demonstrating techniques in front of an audience of other pupils. Subtitles in Hindi label the methods: “chappal se maarna” (beat with a slipper), “laat ghuse se maarna” (beat with a kick or punch), “lakdi se maarna” (beat with a wooden stick), and “miswak se maarna” (beat with a miswak, a traditional teeth-cleaning twig).

In one sequence, a boy holds up a slipper toward a girl in a hijab. In another, a boy stands over a child bent double on the floor in a position suggesting she is being struck. Later scenes show kids posing with a stick or miswak while pointing fingers in a scolding gesture. The children appear to be acting out the scenarios as an educational exercise.

Link to Quran 4:34

The demonstration tracks longstanding traditional interpretations of Quran 4:34. A standard English rendering (Sahih International) reads: “Men are in charge of women by [right of] what Allah has given one over the other and what they spend [for maintenance] from their wealth. So righteous women are devoutly obedient... But those [wives] from whom you fear arrogance — [first] advise them; [then if they persist], forsake them in bed; and [finally], strike them. But if they obey you [once more], seek no means against them.”

Classical scholars treated the final step as a permitted last-resort light or symbolic chastisement for nushuz (commonly understood as disobedience or fear of rebellion), not unrestricted violence. Hadith collections record that any such striking should be non-severe (ghayr mubarih). One report attributed to Ibn Abbas specifies something like a miswak or similar light implement — language that closely matches the video’s final demonstration. The Prophet Muhammad is reported by Aisha never to have struck a woman or servant.

Modern reformist and feminist readings often reject any physical element, arguing the Arabic idribuhunna can mean “separate” or that the overall ethic of the Quran prohibits harm. Pre-modern consensus, however, accepted a restricted form of striking. The video’s framing as a practical “correct way,” performed by and for children, goes well beyond scholarly caveats about lightness and last resort.

The clip does not appear to depict actual injury, but the decision to stage it as school instruction has fuelled criticism that certain communities treat the verse as active marital guidance rather than a limited historical ruling. Critics of mass migration from regions where such teachings remain common argue the footage illustrates deeper incompatibilities with Western legal standards that criminalise domestic violence without religious exemption. Supporters of open immigration counter that the video is unrepresentative and that most Muslim immigrants reject physical discipline.

The original X post frames the issue bluntly as one of cultural import: practices that normalise wife-beating for the next generation cannot be reconciled with societies that have spent decades treating domestic violence as a serious crime. Whether the video is an outlier from a fringe madrasa or a window into more widespread attitudes, its rapid spread has revived long-running arguments about integration, parallel norms, and the limits of multiculturalism.