"Soft on suffering
Mar 29th 2007 | FRANKFURT
From The Economist print edition
The adverse consequences of judicial appeasement
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INDIGNATION greeted the news of a (female) judge's decision to deny a Moroccan woman a quick divorce on the ground that the Koran allows husbands to beat their wives. The judge, who was removed from the case, seemed to imply that the woman, who got married in Morocco, should take beatings as part of the deal. The tale has aroused fears that the German judicial system may go too far to accommodate immigrants."
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