Mohamed Kamal Mustafa, imam of a mosque in Fuengirola, Spain, wrote a book Women In Islam four years ago, in which he said that Islamic law permits the beating of disobedient wives, as long as no marks are left on her body. Last year he was fined and sentenced to 15 months in jail for inciting violence against women. But now a Spanish judge has released him after serving only 22 days "on condition that he undertake a re-education course".

The judge told Mohamed Kamal Mustafa . . . to spend six months studying three articles of the [Spanish] constitution and the universal declaration of human rights.

That'll learn him!

News item in Daily Telegraph here. Further commentary from Robert Spencer here.