The Obedient Wife Club, perhaps unsurprisingly, was brought to you by the same people who dreamed the Polygamy Club in 2009 to encourage Malaysia’s Muslim men to take multiple wives.
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| Ashaari Muhammad Photo: EPA |
Both were the brainchild of a group called Global Ikhwan, a business organization set up by former member of a religious cult, Al-Arqam.
It was banned in 1994 by the Malaysian government because its members believed the founder, Ashaari Muhammad, could wash away their sins and put off death.
Most of the Polygamy Club’s member belonged to the sect. The club’s aim was to promote polygamy which is not common among Malaysia’s Muslim men, as the Ashaari clan believed it should be.
The club claims its noble aim is to help single mothers, reformed prostitutes and women regarded as past marriageable age by increasing the pool of willing husbands.
From such beginnings it was only a short jump to the Obedient Wife Club set up in June with the stated aims of curbing social ills like prostitution, domestic violence and divorce. It now has about 800 members in Malaysia, and branches in Singapore, Indonesia and Jordan.
By Ian MacKinnon, in Bangkok
2:15PM BST 14 Oct 2011
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