Thursday, March 22, 2007

And You Think It's Bad Here?

Before you rush off to the left-leaning haven of Europe, where Kyoto ain't just a city in Japan, consider this from the New York Times:
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.

WTF?

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