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[quote][font=Verdana]FRANKFURT, March 22 — A German judge has stirred a storm of protest by citing the Koran in turning down a German Muslim woman’s request for a speedy divorce on the ground that her husband beat her. In a ruling that underlines the tension between Muslim customs and European laws, the judge, Christa Datz-Winter, noted that the couple came from a Moroccan cultural milieu, in which it is common for husbands to beat their wives. The Koran, she wrote in her decision, sanctions such physical abuse.[/font=Verdana] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/world/europe/23germany.html?_r=1&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fL%2fLandler%2c%20Mark&oref=slogin[/quote]
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