[1] Composed of up to 3000 members,[2] this group currently operates in Malaysia,[3] Indonesia,[4] Singapore,[5] Australia,[6] Kazakhstan,[7] and Jordan,[8] and in 2011 it declared plans to open chapters in England and France in 2013.
[15] On June 3, 2011, Global Ikhwan established the first section of the Obedient Wives Club in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
[12] Global Ikhwan, which also founded a controversial polygamy club,[17] has been closely tied to the religious Islamic group Al-Arqam which was banned in Malaysia in 1994.
[20] In 2015, the club announced that it had dissolved itself, and its members had rebranded it as Rumah Poligami Indah Dari Tuhan ("Beautiful Polygamy Home From God").
[21] The club's parent organization has moved its headquarters to Mecca, Saudi Arabia,[22] and have expanded throughout South East Asia.
[10] In October 2011, the Obedient Wives Club published a 115-page book, guiding women through the physical and spiritual aspects of sex.
[24] Critics argue that the behavior being promoted by the club involve objectification of women, and places an unfair burden on wives.
[12] In October 2011 the Mufti of Kelantan criticized the book, and reinforced the traditional Islamic values of modesty, chastity, sexual restraint and abstinence.