This is very good! Who would like to live under such law? B.
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http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/newsviews.cgi/Islam/Europe_Shariatized_.html?seemore=y
Monday, March 26, 2007
Europe Shariatized: Wife-Beating Legitimized by German Court
By Srdja Trifkovic
The husband routinely beat his 26-year-old German-born wife, mother of their
two young children, and threatened to kill her when the court ordered him to
move out of their apartment in Hamburg. The police were called repeatedly to
intervene. The wife wanted a quick divorcewithout waiting a year after
separation, as mandated by German lawarguing that that the abuse and death
threats she suffered easily fulfilled the hardship criteria required for an
accelerated decree absolute. The judgea woman by the name of Christa
Datz-Winterrefused, however, arguing that the Kuran allows the husband to beat
his wife and that the couples Moroccan origin must be taken into account in
the case.
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They both come from a cultural milieu, Her Honor wrote, in which it is common
for husbands to beat their wivesand the Kuran sanctions such treatment. The
[husbands] exercise of the right to castigate does not fulfill the hardship
criteria as defined by Paragraph 1565 of German federal law, the judges
letter said. [emphasis added] The judge further suggested that the wifes
Western lifestyle would give her husband grounds to claim his honor had been
compromised.
The reports in German and English do not state this, but Turkish papers have
reported that the judge made specific reference to Sura 4, which contains the
infamous Verse 34:
Men have the authority over women because God has made the one superior to the
other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are
obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for
those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds
apart and beat them.
The wifes lawyer, Barbara Becker-Rojczyk, could not believe her eyes: a
German judge was invoking Kuran in a German legal case to assert the husbands
right to castigate his wife. The meaning was clear: the husband can beat his
wife, Becker-Rojczyk commented. She decided to go public with the case last
Tuesday because the judge was still on the bench, two months after the
controversial verdict was handed down. The judge was subsequently removed from
the case, but not from the bench.
A spokesman for the court, Bernhard Olp, said the judge did not intend to
suggest that violence in a marriage is acceptable, or that the Kuran supersedes
German law. The ruling is not justifiable, but the judge herself cannot
explain it at this moment, he said. But according to Spiegel Online this was
not the first time that German courts have used cultural background to inform
their verdicts. Christa Stolle of the womens rights organization Terre des
Femmes said that in cases of marital violence there have been a number of cases
where the perpetrators culture of origin has been considered as a mitigating
circumstance.
Of some 25 million Muslims in Western Europe, the majority already consider
themselves autonomous, a community justifiably opposed to the decadent host
society of infidels. They already demand the adoption of sharia within
segregated Muslim communities, which but one step that leads to the imposition
of sharia on the society as a whole. Swedish courts are already introducing
sharia principles into civil cases. An Iranian-born man divorcing his
Iranian-born wife was ordered by the high court in the city of Halmestad to pay
Mahr, Islamic dowry ordained by the Kuran as part of the Islamic marriage
contract.
As our magazine readers may recall, Europes elite class is ready for further
surrenders. Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donnera Christian Democratsees
the demand for sharia as perfectly legitimate, and argues that it could be
introduced by democratic means. Muslims have a right to follow the commands
of their religion, he says, even if the exercise of that right included some
dissenting rules of behavior:
It is a sure certainty for me: if two thirds of all Netherlanders tomorrow
would want to introduce sharia, then this possibility must exist. Could you
block this legally? It would also be a scandal to say this isnt allowed! The
majority counts. That is the essence of democracy.
The same essence was reiterated in similar terms last July by Jens Orback,
the Swedish Integration [sic] Minister, who declared in a radio debate on
Channel P1, We must be open and tolerant towards Islam and Muslims because
when we become a minority, they will be so towards us.
To all forward-looking Europeans it must be a welcome sign that continental
courts are catching up with the leader in sharia compliance, Great Britain. A
key tenet of sharia is that non-Muslims cannot try Muslims. Peter Beaumont, QC,
senior circuit judge at Londons Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey,
accepts the commandment not only in civil, but also in criminal cases. He
banned Jews and Hindusand anyone married to onefrom serving on the jury in
the trial of Abdullah el-Faisal, accused of soliciting the murder of
unbelievers. For obvious reasons, he said, members of the jury of the
Jewish or Hindu faith should reveal themselves, even if they are married to
Jewish or Hindu women, because they are not fit to arbitrate in this case. One
can only speculate what the reaction would be if equally obvious reasons were
invoked in an attempt to exclude Muslims from a trial of an alleged
Islamophobe.
Here at home, The New York Times had a bone to pick with the German judge
mainly because of her suggestion that Islam justified violence against women.
It stated matter-of-factly, While the verse cited by Judge Datz-Winter does
say husbands may beat their wives for being disobedientan interpretation
embraced by fundamentalists mainstream Muslims have long rejected wife-beating
as a medieval relic.
In reality mainstream Muslims do nothing of the sort. New York Times claim
notwithstanding, the original sources for true Islamthe Kuran and
Hadithprovide ample and detailed evidence on Islamic theory and the sources of
Sharia practice that remains in force all over the Islamic world today.
According to orthodox Islamic tradition, the verse invoked by the German judge
(4:34) was revealed in connection with a woman who complained to Mohammad that
her husband had hit her on the face, which was still bruised. At first he told
her to get even with him, but then added, Wait until I think about it. The
revelation duly followed, after which he said: We wanted one thing but Allah
wanted another, and what Allah wanted is best. Qatari Sheikh Walid bin Hadi
explains that every man is his own judge when using violence: The Prophet
said: Do not ask a husband why he beats his wife. The scholars at the most
respected institution of Islamic learning, Cairos Azhar
University, further explain:
If admonishing and sexual desertion fail to bring forth results and the woman
is of a cold and stubborn type, the Quran bestows on man the right to
straighten her out by way of punishment and beating, provided he does not break
her bones nor shed blood. Many a wife belongs to this querulous type and
requires this sort of punishment to bring her to her senses!
Physical violence against ones wife, far from being Haram, remains divinely
ordained and practically advised in modern Islam. Take in thine hand a branch
and smite therewith and break not thine oath, the Kuran commands. Muslim
propagators in the West explain that the Islamic teaching and practice is in
line with the latest achievements of clinical psychology: it is not only
correct, but positively beneficial to them because womens rebelliousness
(nushuz) is a medical condition based either on her masochistic delight in
being beaten and tortured, or sadistic desire to hurt and dominate her husband.
Either way,
Such a woman has no remedy except removing her spikes and destroying her weapon
by which she dominates. This weapon of the woman is her femininity. But the
other woman who delights in submission and being beaten, then beating is her
remedy. So the Quranic command: banish them to their couches, and beat them
agrees with the latest psychological findings in understanding the rebellious
woman. This is one of the scientific miracles of the Quran, because it sums up
volumes of the science of psychology about rebellious women.
According to Allahs commandment to men (Kuran 2:223), Your wives are as a
soil to be cultivated unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will.
Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient. Those that are not
inhabit the nether regions of hell. Muhammad has stated that most of those who
enter hell are women, not men. Contemporary Azhar scholars of Egypt agree: Oh,
assembly of women, give charity, even from your jewelry, for you (comprise) the
majority of the inhabitants of hell in the day of resurrection. In the same
spirit, courts in Muslim countries, to mention a particularly egregious legal
practice, routinely sentence raped women to death for adultery, usually by
stoning, because they follow the sharia that mandates this punishment.
To the outright divine command of every wifes obedience to her husband,
Muhammad has added a few comments of his own. When asked who among women is the
best, he replied: She who gives pleasure to him (husband) when he looks, obeys
him when he bids, and who does not oppose him regarding herself and her riches
fearing his displeasure. Even in basic necessities the needs of the husband
take precedence: You shall give her food when you have taken your food, you
shall clothe her when you have clothed yourself, you shall not slap her on the
face, nor revile (her), nor leave (her) alone, except within the house. The
husbands sexual needs have to be satisfied immediately: When a man calls his
wife to his bed, and she does not respond, the One Who is in the heaven is
displeased with her until he is pleased with her.
Such treatment of women might be expected to make Islam abhorrent within the
cultural milieu epitomized by the equal-rights obsessed European Union and the
neofeminist New York Times, but this has not happened. There is a reason for
this. It is the refusal of Islam to accept the wife as her husbands closest
and inseparable loving partner and companion. Islam therefore challenges
Christian marriage in principle and in practice. Muslim teaching on marriage
and the family, though conservative about patriarchy, denies the
traditional Christian concept of matrimony. Islam is therefore an objective
ally of postmodernity, a few beatings here and a few rapes there
notwithstanding.
I can only say, Good night, Germany, says Ronald Pofalla, general secretary
of Germanys ruling Christian Democratic Union, of Frau Datz-Winters ruling.
Unless the madness is checked it will be good night to us all well before this
century is over.
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