evidence: A close examination of public statements by some influential Muslim clerics reveals conflicting messages about whether Islam allows for — or even at times condones — the non-physical abuse and control of women. [...] Blunt and unequivocal, the statement was released after a Facebook video — in which two women from the radical Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir discuss the apparent right of husbands to physically discipline disobedient wives — sparked fierce backlash. [...] But for many Muslim women, the belief that they will be betraying their faith — or exposing their community to even more scrutiny, and possibly Islamophobia — if they report violence or abuse, dissuades many from talking publicly about their experience.