Sharia Calling - A warning from Germany By Kathryn Jean Lopez

In a German case in which a Muslim, Moroccan-born 26-year-old mother of two was petitioning for an expedited divorce from a man who had beaten her and threatened her life, Judge Christa Datz-Winter denied the woman’s request, a woman who already had a restraining order on her husband after police were called last May because he attacked her. The reason for the injudicious divorce denial? The Koran, the judge said, instructs that “men are in charge of women.” She explained further that the couple hails from a “Moroccan cultural environment in which it is not uncommon for a man to exert a right of corporal punishment over his wife.”

I’m not normally a fan of speedy divorce — or of divorce at all, for that matter. But surely divorce exists for precisely these circumstances.

Clearly, Datz-Winter’s was a reprehensible ruling. But it’s also one that highlights real problems we face all over the world. It’s at the heart of this war we’re in. It’s at the heart of struggles by so-called moderate Muslims who would never dream of beating their wives or condoning anyone who would engage in or justify such brutality.

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