Posted on 03/23/2007 4:12:55 AM PDT by Northern Alliance
A German judge who refused a Moroccan woman a fast-track divorce on the grounds that domestic violence was acceptable according to the Qur'an has been removed from the case following a nationwide outcry.
The judge, Christa Datz-Winter, said the German woman of Moroccan descent would not be granted a divorce because she and her husband came from a "Moroccan cultural environment in which it is not uncommon for a man to exert a right of corporal punishment over his wife," according to a statement she wrote that was issued by a Frankfurt court. "That's what the claimant had to reckon with when she married the defendant."
The 26-year-old mother of two had been repeatedly beaten and threatened with death by her husband.
When the woman protested against the judge's decision, Ms Datz-Winter invoked the Qur'an to support her argument. In the court she read from verse 34 of Sura four of the Qur'an, An-Nisa (Women), in which men are told to hit their wives as a final stage in dealing with disobedience. The verse reads: "... as to those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them and leave them alone in the sleeping places and beat them".
The woman's lawyer, Barbara Becker-Rojczyk, protested, saying: "When Christians are arguing for a divorce they don't use the Bible."
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Jihad is acceptable too then.
What is with these people? Is it because Radical Islam so closely resembles the practices and precepts of the Nazis?
Sounds like many Clinton appointed judges over here.
So what was that you were saying about your country not giving a rat's patootie about the practices of religious minorities and other sweet BS you were spouting about the "rights" that everyone in Germany has to certain things?
Your nation's double standards are showing my friend. Or you are simply on a faster track than I thought to a Sharia Germany where not only homeschooling is outlawed, but also beer and bratwurst that has any pork in it...
Whats a little wife beating among friends.
This is not directly related to the story, but can someone answer this:
If judge Christa Datz-Winter's son marries the woman's lawyer, Barbara Becker-Rojczyk's daugther, will the daughter take the name.................... Becker-Rojczyk-Datz-Winter?
And a woman judge to boot!
In a statement defending her ruling, Judge Datz-Winter noted that she had ordered the man to move out and put a restraining order on him. But she also cited the verse in the Koran that speaks of a husband’s prerogatives in disciplining his wife. And she suggested that the wife’s Western lifestyle would give her husband grounds to claim his honor had been compromised.
The woman, her lawyer said, does not wear a headscarf. She has been a German citizen for eight years.
Judge Datz-Winter declined to comment. But a spokesman for the court, Bernhard Olp, said she did not intend to suggest that violence in a marriage is acceptable or that the Koran supersedes German law. “The ruling is not justifiable, but the judge herself cannot explain it at this moment,” he said.
Judge Datz-Winter herself narrowly avoided injury 10 years ago in a case involving a man and woman whose relationship had come apart. When the man shot up her courtroom, the judge escaped by diving under her desk.
German papers have suggested that that ordeal may have affected her judgment in this case, which the spokesman denied.
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For some, the greatest damage done by this episode is to other Muslim women suffering from domestic abuse. Many are already afraid of going to court against their spouses. There have been a string of so-called honor killings here, in which Turkish Muslim men have murdered women.
“For Muslim men, this is like putting oil on a fire, that a German judge thinks it is O.K. for them to hit their wives,” said Michaela Sulaika Kaiser, the head of a group that counsels Muslim women.
and the cry from the feminists is less than nothing.
Datz-Winter's children may or may not carry the hyphenated name, depending on whether it's an old hyphenation (e.g. von Petersdorff-Campen which is several hundred years old and in the Gotha Almanac) protected under the Namengesetz or one of new fashion. And, such child's marriage to Becker-Rojeczyk (almost certainly not an old hyphenation) could lend itself to various forms.
Another idiot who wants to destroy the civilization that gave us such a good life and replace it with savage barbarism.
It makes you wonder how many other such rulings this judge has made (where the woman in question feared to go public), and why it is that she's so familiar, and in obvious sympathy, with Islamic law and teachings.
It is nice to finally see a story like this get attention. This is at least the 4th citation I've seen.
Must be a Clinton appointee.
Her ruling was " Put some ice on it ! "
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