Domestic violence history predicts violence better than Muslim identity does.

Evidence

The paper’s treatment of the beliefs pathway is particularly important for E107: Durrant and Ensom synthesize evidence that parental beliefs about the appropriateness and effectiveness of physical punishment are the strongest immediate predictor of its use — stronger than stress, income, mental health status, or any demographic variable. Those beliefs are primarily acquired through one’s own childhood experience of discipline, constituting the cognitive-normative transmission pathway. The paper documents that education and specific information about child-development science are evidence-based moderators of this pathway, providing the rationale for public-education campaigns as a transmission-interruption strategy. — , The Rod and the Child, 10644 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The UNICEF MICS data, across approximately the past two decades, reports country-level rates of corporal correction in Muslim-majority countries ranging from approximately 70 percent in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, and other Muslim-majority countries to approximately 90+ percent in Yemen, Syria (pre-civil-war data), Sudan, and Mauritania. … These operational rates are comparable to — and in some cases higher than — global non-Muslim-majority population rates. The situation is operationally significant. — , The Rod and the Child, 3716 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Honor violence stems from immigrant integration conditions, not religion alone — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 513; Muslim male violence is framed as an innate Islamic or racial impulse; Nearly half of Americans believed Islam encourages violence in 2010 — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 565 (+3 more)

Related

• Corporal punishment rates in Muslim countries exceed those of non-Muslim populations (similarity 0.80)
• Parental beliefs predict physical punishment use more strongly than stress, income, or demographics. (similarity 0.80)
• Corporal punishment is the world’s most prevalent violence against any population group (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Parental beliefs predict physical punishment use more strongly than stress, income, or demographics. #corroborates (0.70) — , The Rod and the Child, 10644
• Corporal punishment rates in Muslim countries exceed those of non-Muslim populations #qualifies (0.50) — , The Rod and the Child, 3716