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Koranic law: Coming to a city near youA panel of federal judges has ruled that states cannot protect their courts from jurists who base their decisions on international or Koranic law. America needs better judges. On Tuesday, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal district court order blocking implementation of an amendment to the Oklahoma constitution that sought to ban judges from using international or Muslim law as a basis for deciding cases. The amendment was approved in November 2010 by a 70 percent popular vote but has never been enforced. Plaintiff Muneer Awad, executive director of the...

Beaten and threatened with death by her husband, a young Muslim mother of two in Germany petitioned a Frankfurt court for a speedy divorce. German law mandates a year-long waiting period between separation and divorce, but also contains ?hardship? criteria that allow for that period to be shortened. However, Judge Christa Datz-Winter decided that this was not a ?hardship? case. According to Spiegel Online, Datz-Winter quoted Qur?an 4:34, which says that ?men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other,? and that men should punish disobedient women: ?admonish them and banish...