{"id":630,"date":"2007-03-27T04:11:58","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T10:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/27\/sign-the-terrorists-have-won\/"},"modified":"2007-03-26T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T18:16:06","slug":"sign-the-terrorists-have-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Sign The Terrorists Have Won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/03\/23\/news\/germany.php\">German judge cites the Quran<\/a> in handing down a verdict:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A German judge has stirred a storm of protest here by citing the Koran in turning down a German Muslim wife&#8217;s request for a fast-track divorce on the ground that her husband beat her.<\/p>\n<p>In a remarkable ruling that underlines the tension between Muslim customs and European laws, the judge, Christa Datz-Winter, said the couple came from a Moroccan cultural milieu in which it is common for husbands to beat their wives. The Koran, she wrote, sanctions such physical abuse.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my prediction; given that radical Islam in America is using the Twin Cities as its testbed for slipping Moslem religious law into American life &#8211; the Flying Imams, Target Cashiers Against Pork, and the cabbies who won&#8217;t carry booze &#8211; I have to wonder if we&#8217;re not going to see someone trying to push a case just like this, right here, and very soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/medienkritik.typepad.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/amazing_ruling_.html\">David&#8217;s <em>Medienkritik<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A German judge cites the Quran in handing down a verdict: A German judge has stirred a storm of protest here by citing the Koran in turning down a German Muslim wife&#8217;s request for a fast-track divorce on the ground that her husband beat her. In a remarkable ruling that underlines the tension between Muslim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}