News aggregater Monsters and Critics has posted this report culled from Deutsche Presse Agenteur, stating that “Police raided 30 mosques in Germany on Wednesday to seize all copies of a Saudi book which encourages wife-beating.”

Germany has a national office for checking harmful books which has objected to the German translation from Arabic of a book entitled Women under the Protection of Islam.

The office cited that the book’s chapter on corporal punishment of women “was both discriminatory to women and an incitement to assault,” says the report. “Police visited mosques and Islamic community offices to seize the book and also took away computers and discs as part of an inquiry.”