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To: FJB who wrote (6225)	3/22/2007 7:07:26 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

German Judge Justifies Marital Violence by the Koran Der Spiegel ^ \| March 20, 2007 \| Veit Medick and Anna Reimann spiegel.de [Dateline: Hamburg, Germany] A 26-year old woman with two small children wanted to free herself from the bonds of matrimony. The police had established that her husband, who, like her, was from Morocco, had beaten her. Her husband had to move out, but the terror continued: after the separation the still-married man threated to murder the young mother. [The woman sought an expedited divorce under German law.] [The (female) judge denied the request, ruling that because both marital partners were from Morocco where the koran allows men to beat their wives, therefore there was] "not any unreasonable cruelty within the meaning of Paragraph 1565" [of the German divorce law, so as to allow an expedited divorce. The woman would have to wait out the normal one-year waiting period.] (Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ....