{"id":7069,"date":"2020-02-29T21:01:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T20:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7069"},"modified":"2021-04-18T17:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:24:15","slug":"german-court-rejects-attempt-to-enshrine-sharia-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2020\/02\/29\/german-court-rejects-attempt-to-enshrine-sharia-law\/","title":{"rendered":"German Court Rejects Attempt to Enshrine Sharia Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2020\/02\/29\/german-court-rejects-attempt-to-enshrine-sharia-law\/constitutional-court-to-announce-verdict-on-npd-ban\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7070\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7070\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/4364-germany-sharia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/4364-germany-sharia.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/4364-germany-sharia-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Germany\u2019s Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that the constitutionally guaranteed religious freedoms of Muslims can be curtailed if public displays of religiosity endanger the ideological and religious neutrality of the state.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>German Court Rejects Attempt to Enshrine Sharia Law<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15658\/german-court-rejects-attempt-to-enshrine-sharia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | February 29, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that the constitutionally guaranteed religious freedoms of Muslims can be curtailed if public displays of religiosity \u2014 in this case wearing Islamic headscarves in German courtrooms \u2014 endanger the ideological and religious neutrality of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s landmark ruling effectively smashes a backdoor effort to enshrine Sharia law into the German legal system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15658\/german-court-rejects-attempt-to-enshrine-sharia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that the constitutionally guaranteed religious freedoms of Muslims can be curtailed if public displays of religiosity endanger the ideological and religious neutrality of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[133,179,181,134],"class_list":["post-7069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany-european-union","tag-cultural-integration","tag-germany","tag-islam-in-europe","tag-sharia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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