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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The judge is already suspended and the case of this woman will be revised. A disciplinary procedure against the judge is on its way. No Sharia thing but a crazy judge.
Germany saves its citizens -even if they are kids- from religious tyranny. Therefore we do not want homeschooling, but this is a different issue.
Yes, I know. Why would Germany piddle around with penny ante religious tyranny, when government tyranny is such a superior product?
Is substituting the world "beat" with "discipline" part of the "balance"?
....But she also cited the verse in the Koran that speaks of a husband’s prerogatives in disciplining his wife.
I see the spirit of fascism is still alive and well in Germany.
Yawn. I see the bottom of my beer-bottle and that is something really bad.
Maybe that's why you guys are so susceptible to fascists.
BuHuHaHa! You do not even know what you are talking about.
there goes another muslim-german thread
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