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A fundamentalist Muslim group has republished a video online of an imam declaring a wife is committing a ‘major sin’ by refusing to have sex with her husband, despite outrage from feminists and senior ministers.
Nassim Abdi was condemned after telling an Auburn mosque in western Sydney a woman would be ‘cursed’ by angels for withholding marital intimacy.
The Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah Association, a fundamentalist Sunni group, pulled the video from YouTube on Tuesday after Daily Mail Australia contacted it about the sermon, which state Attorney-General Mark Speakman called ‘repugnant’.
It reposted the video, however, with an Arabic subtitle over a section where Mr Abdi said: ‘If the man calls the wife to bed and she refuses, the angels curse this woman and he sleeps with her whilst he’s angry, the angels curse her until she wakes up.’