Friday - March 23, 2007

German Judge:  Okay to Beat Your Wife if You Are Muslim

A German judge has ruled that the Koran allows a husband to beat his wife.  The elites in Europe will destroy Western civilization.  The New York Times reports:

A German judge has stirred a storm of protest here by citing the Koran in turning down a German Muslim woman’s request for a fast-track divorce on the ground that her husband beat her.

In a remarkable ruling that underlines the tension between Muslim customs and European laws, the judge, Christa Datz-Winter, said that the couple came from a Moroccan cultural milieu, in which she said it was common for husbands to beat their wives. The Koran, she wrote, sanctions such physical abuse.

News of the ruling brought swift and sharp condemnation from politicians, legal experts, and Muslim leaders in Germany, many of whom said they were confounded that a German judge would put 7th-century Islamic religious teaching ahead of modern German law in deciding a case involving domestic violence.

The woman’s lawyer, Barbara Becker-Rojczyk, said she decided to publicize the ruling, which was issued in January, after the court refused her request for a new judge. On Wednesday, the court in Frankfurt abruptly removed Judge Datz-Winter from the case, saying it could not justify her reasoning.

The modern leftist, whether in Europe or the U.S., feels nothing but disdain for Western culture.  And while they undermine a culture that has brought democracy to the world, they seem to have a morbid attraction to movements that embody the worst characteristics of humanity.  First the left flirted with communism and now Islamism.

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