Let me remind you of what happened in a German Courtroom in March 2007.

A German judge revealed what’s on the horizon in her courtroom when she cited the Koran in the denial of a German-born Moroccan woman’s request for a fast-track divorce on grounds that her husband beat her. According to the Koran, husbands may beat their wives for disobedience as espoused by Wahhabi and other fundamentalist Islamic groups.

Highlighting the tension between Muslim culture and European laws, the judge, Christa Datz-Winter, said that the couple came from a Moroccan cultural where it was common for husbands to beat their wives. The Koran, she wrote, sanctions such physical abuse. Therefore, she denied the appeal for a fast-track divorce. Being denied a fast-track divorce means that the woman must wait a year in constant fear for her safety. During her separation from her husband she has reportedly undergone many death threats for pursuing divorce.

Also under Islamic law, a man can claim that his honor has been compromised if his wife refuses to wear a headscarf. In fact, there has been a string of so-called “honor killings” in Germany in which Turkish Muslim men have murdered women because they supposedly have been influenced by Western culture. As a result of these “honor killings,” many women find themselves trapped in abusive marriages for fear of being killed. Beating your wife into submission is acceptable in Islamic culture. The Koran says you should scourge your wife if she causes you problems. Let’s take a look at the verse:

“Men are superior to women on account of the qualities with which God has gifted the one above the other, and on account of the outlay they make from their substance for them. Virtuous women are obedient, careful, during the husband’s absence, because God has of them been careful. But chide those for whose refractoriness you have cause to fear; remove them into beds apart, and scourge them: but if they are obedient to you, then seek not occasion against them: verily, God is High, Great!” (Koran, 4:34)

I am sure that this verse would anger any Christian woman because Christ liberated women some 2,000 years ago. Women are not animals. They are God-given gifts to mankind. One can see the stark contrast of values between Christ and the Muslim treatment of women. The Bible says to love your wife even as Christ loves the Church. This Islamic spirit however views women as chattel that need only to be subjugated in the name of their God. Even Muhammad, when he was over 50 years old, married a six-year-old girl named Aishah and “knew her” at age nine. Is this acceptable behavior in our Christian culture? Of course not! According to Muslim scholar and statesman Ali Dashti, Muhammad had 22 wives, a clear violation to the Koran that says a Muslim can only have four wives.

Muslims have also received coaching in how to discipline a rebellious wife. In Spain, an Islamic Imam, Muhammad Kamal Mustafa, who is viewed as a scholar, wrote a book entitled “Women in Islam” that instructs how a man should beat his wife. The BBC reported that he “recommends verbal correction followed by a period of sexual abstinence as the best punishment for a wife, but does not rule out a beating as long as it is kept within strict guidelines… to avoid serious damage, a husband should never hit his wife in a state of extreme or blind anger. He should never hit sensitive parts of the body such as the face, head, breasts or stomach. He should only hit the hands or feet using a rod that is thin and light so that it does not leave scars or bruises on the body. The husband’s aim should be to cause psychological suffering and not to humiliate or physically abuse his wife.”

Is this, too, a prophetic sign of things to come when a German judge uses the customs and values of Islamic culture and quotes from the Koran in the courtroom to render judicial rulings rather than staying within the confines of European judicial laws? Don’t forget that this is before the coming attacks on European laws by Muslims entering political offices. What will happen next?