German Judge Condemned for Citing Quran

    Politicians and Muslim leaders denounced a German judge for citing the Quran in her rejection of a Muslim woman’s request for a quick divorce on grounds she was abused by her husband. Judge Christa Datz-Winter said in a recommendation earlier this year that both partners came from a “Moroccan cultural environment in which it is…

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      Netherlands government sworn in

      The new Dutch government has been by sworn in by Queen Beatrix after meeting for the first time to formally adopt its policy guidelines. (…) The new governing coalition, led by Jan Peter Balkenende, the incumbent prime minister and head of the Christian Democrats party, will be further to the political left than the previous…

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        Another German State To Curb Hijab; North Rhine-Westphalia Is The Latest State To Target The Hijab

        Germany’s most populous state has moved to ban Muslim teachers from wearing headscarves in classrooms. Deputies from the ruling Christian Democrats and Free Democrats in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia agreed unanimously on Tuesday to put the measure to a vote in the state legislature in November. “With the ban, we will send a…

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          Parliament Keeps Faith With Blasphemy Law

          AMSTERDAM – The Dutch parliament has rejected a bid to scrap the prohibition on blasphemy. The motion was drawn up by MP Lousewies van der Laan of the small government party D66 last week. The move was a response to an announcement by Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner that he planned to strengthen the blasphemy…

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            Merkel Calls For Petition Against Turkish Membership

            Angela Merkel, the leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU), the country’s main opposition party, announced on Sunday that she supported the creation of a petition against Turkey’s membership to the European Union.

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