[Responding to a news story in which a Muslim woman sought a divorce from her abusive Muslim husband, but was denied by a German judge according to "Islamic law"]

the state should stay out of the affairs between a man and his wife me thinks.

[When he's beating her and threatening to kill her?]

obviously if the man is going to kill his wife or beats her severely thats different. But the state has no business getting involved if he just hits her.