{"id":2069,"date":"2007-03-23T15:59:40","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T15:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2007-03-23T15:59:40","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T15:59:40","slug":"2007-3-23-fire-that-german-judge-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2069","title":{"rendered":"Fire that German judge"},"content":{"rendered":"
Completely ridiculous story — while Arab women fight to have such measures removed from their own legal system, a German judge refers to the Quran to justify domestic abuse:<\/p>\n

German judge invokes Qur’an to deny abused wife a divorce<\/a><\/p>\n

A German judge who refused a Moroccan woman a fast-track divorce on the grounds that domestic violence was acceptable according to the Qur’an has been removed from the case following a nationwide outcry.
The judge, Christa Datz-Winter, said the German woman of Moroccan descent would not be granted a divorce because she and her husband came from a “Moroccan cultural environment in which it is not uncommon for a man to exert a right of corporal punishment over his wife,” according to a statement she wrote that was issued by a Frankfurt court. “That’s what the claimant had to reckon with when she married the defendant.”<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old mother of two had been repeatedly beaten and threatened with death by her husband.<\/p>\n

When the woman protested against the judge’s decision, Ms Datz-Winter invoked the Qur’an to support her argument. In the court she read from verse 34 of Sura four of the Qur’an, An-Nisa (Women), in which men are told to hit their wives as a final stage in dealing with disobedience. The verse reads: “… as to those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them and leave them alone in the sleeping places and beat them”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That judge should lose her job. And incidentally, there is (as always) a wide range of interpretations and thinking about this part of the Quran.<\/p>\n

Update: <\/strong>NYT story<\/a> on alternate interpretation, by which a rebellious woman should be spurned rather than beaten as usually interpreted.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Completely ridiculous story — while Arab women fight to have such measures removed from their own legal system, a German judge refers to the Quran to justify domestic abuse:<\/p>\n

German judge invokes Qur’an to deny abused wife a divorce<\/a>
\nA German judge who refused a Moroccan woman a fast-track divorce on the grounds that domestic violence was acceptable according to the Qur’an has been removed from the case following a nationwide outcry.
\nThe judge, Christa Datz-Winter, said the German woman of Moroccan descent would not be granted a divorce because she and her husband came from a “Moroccan cultural environment in which it is not uncommon for a man to exert a right of corporal punishment over his wife,” according to a statement she wrote that was issued by a Frankfurt court. “That’s what the claimant had to reckon with when she married the defendant.”
\nThe 26-year-old mother of two had been repeatedly beaten and threatened with death by her husband.
\nWhen the woman protested against the judge’s decision, Ms Datz-Winter invoked the Qur’an to support her argument. In the court she read from verse 34 of Sura four of the Qur’an, An-Nisa (Women), in which men are told to hit their wives as a final stage in dealing with disobedience. The verse reads: “… as to those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them and leave them alone in the sleeping places and beat them”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That judge should lose her job. And incidentally, there is (as always) a wide range of interpretations and thinking about this part of the Quran.
\nUpdate: <\/strong>NYT story<\/a> on alternate interpretation, by which a rebellious woman should be spurned rather than beaten as usually interpreted.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[229,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}