General legal information furnished as a service of Fort Lauderdale / West Palm Beach family law attorney Janet Langjahr
A Muslim woman recently applied to a German judge for an immediate divorce under German law based upon her husband’s alleged physical abuse of her.
The judge, a woman, denied the immediate divorce.
The judge’s reason: the Koran (Muslim bible) condones physical abuse of a wife by a husband.
The judge had already granted the wife a restraining order for her protection.
The ruling touched off a firestorm in Germany (and beyond). The judge was criticized both for seemingly approving domestic violence and for apparently subordinating German law to Muslim law in a divorce in Germany.
Now the case will be re-heard by a different German judge.
A new English translation of the Koran is anticipated to “soften” some of the language of the previous translation of the Koran.
Read more in this Fox News article: Abused Woman Denied Divorce on Grounds That Koran Allows Men to Beat Their Wives and CBC News article: German judge denounced for citing Qur’an in divorce ruling.
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