Quran's verse on "rebellious" women generates debate   The following article addresses the issue of beating women in Islam from different perspective. The following 3 paragraphs are from the same article. "Her eureka moment came on roughly her tenth reading of Edward William Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon, a 3,064-page volume from the 19th century, she said. Among the six pages of definitions for "daraba" was "to go away." "I said to myself, 'Oh, God, that is what the prophet meant,' " Bakhtiar said. "When the prophet had difficulty with his wives, what did he do? He didn't beat anybody, so why would any Muslim do what the prophet did not?" She thinks the "beat" translation contradicts another verse, which states that if a woman wants a divorce, she should not be mistreated. Given the option of staying in the marriage and being beaten, or divorcing, women would obviously leave, she said." http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003634774_quran25.html