Under political Islam you can get thousands of people to cheer while they watch a 13 year old gang rape victim get bludgeoned to death for adultery. But the suggestion that women can fight back against abusive husbands? A touch less popular:

Sheikh Abdel Hamid Al Atrash, who heads the committee for fatwas, or religious edicts, at Al Azhar University in Cairo, Sunni Islam’s highest institute, ruled that women are entitled to use violence to defend themselves from abusive husbands... But the rulings have not been universally welcomed and conservative Islamic clerics were quick to express condemnation. "These fatwas contradict the Quran on how to deal with marital problems and transforms the house into a jungle where it is survival of the fittest," said Youssef el Badri... "I wonder what’s the secret behind these fatwas that favour women at the expense of men, which we’ve never heard of since the advent of Islam," said Ahmad Mahmoud, 30, at a coffee shop in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis.

Almost hard to believe that this would be unpopular in a country where two-thirds of all men admit to sexually harassing women in public:

Nearly two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to having sexually harassed women in the most populous Arab country, and a majority say women themselves are to blame for their maltreatment, a survey showed Thursday... Egyptian women and female visitors frequently complain of persistent sexual harassment on Egyptian streets, despite the socially conservative nature of this traditional Muslim society.

There are actually PSAs in Egypt telling women to wrap themselves up because they're like lollipops and they won't be able to stop men from harassing them: