I totally missed this one - seems Germany is on its way to becoming dar-ul-islam. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> Only witSSel can be happy:
http://www.elsevier.nl/nieuws/buitenland/a...n/ja/index.html has the original
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Judge appeals to the koran: hitting women is allowed</b>
Wednesday 21 maart 2007
<i>A German judge who explained away/excused abuse of women with an appeal to the koran, is not allowed to finish/round off a divorce case. Her sentence is raising indignation in Germany.</i>
With a reference to the koran, a judge denied a petition for speedy divorce from a 26-year old Maroccan woman who said that she was being abused by her husband. (She claimed) she was also being threatened with death, according to her a reason to quickly end the divorce already-in-progress.
<b>Koran</b>
The judge however was not in agreement with the woman. She and her husband are both of the Maroccan culture and according to the koran, she (the judge) pronounced/judged, men have the right to discipline their wives.
The district-court in Frankfurt gave the judge a rap on the knuckles on Wednesday. She handled according to bias, and has been pulled off the case. German politicians are all over the judge. 'It is a big mistake of the judge,' says SPD-politician Dieter Wiefelspütz according to Der Spiegel. Vice-party-chairperson of the CDU, Wolfgang Bosbach, too, has had no good word to say about the judge's sentence.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://www.elsevier.nl/nieuws/buitenland/a...n/ja/index.html has the original
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Judge appeals to the koran: hitting women is allowed</b>
Wednesday 21 maart 2007
<i>A German judge who explained away/excused abuse of women with an appeal to the koran, is not allowed to finish/round off a divorce case. Her sentence is raising indignation in Germany.</i>
With a reference to the koran, a judge denied a petition for speedy divorce from a 26-year old Maroccan woman who said that she was being abused by her husband. (She claimed) she was also being threatened with death, according to her a reason to quickly end the divorce already-in-progress.
<b>Koran</b>
The judge however was not in agreement with the woman. She and her husband are both of the Maroccan culture and according to the koran, she (the judge) pronounced/judged, men have the right to discipline their wives.
The district-court in Frankfurt gave the judge a rap on the knuckles on Wednesday. She handled according to bias, and has been pulled off the case. German politicians are all over the judge. 'It is a big mistake of the judge,' says SPD-politician Dieter Wiefelspütz according to Der Spiegel. Vice-party-chairperson of the CDU, Wolfgang Bosbach, too, has had no good word to say about the judge's sentence.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->