Posted on 05/06/2019 6:30:15 PM PDT by marshmallow
On May 2, Britain's House of Commons debated the operation of Sharia Councils in the United Kingdom. (full text of debate). MP John Howell said in part:
Sharia councils provide a form of alternative dispute resolution.... Members of the Muslim community voluntarily consent to accept the religious jurisdiction of sharia councils. Marital issues and the granting of Islamic marriage divorces account for about 90% of their work. They also advise in matters of law, including issues of inheritance, probate and wills and Islamic commercial law contracts, and they provide mediation, counselling and religious ruling services.
Sharia councils are not considered part of the British legal system. They are not courts and their decisions are not legally binding. However, despite having no judicial authority, some councils see themselves as authoritative on religious issues, and the power of sharia councils lies in how they are perceived by their communities.
A significant number of Muslims do not have a marriage recognised under British law.... [S]ome Muslim women therefore have no option of obtaining a civil divorce. Some women may have no other option but to obtain a religious divorce, for which the judgment of a sharia council is normally required.
Law & Religion UK has a more extensive summary of the debate.
UK “leaders” are just absolute wankers.
I guess some folks are more equal than others. Because if I painted my car to look just like a police car, I’d probably be arrested for impersonating a police officer.
We here in USA have sharia counsels operating here already.
The argument that these bs Islamic courts are fair is such a joke.
Women gave NO rights in sharia courts.
This is an exceptional video with Bill Federer. Well worth your time. A lot of historical background. I felt I was pretty knowledgeable, yet I have a deeper understanding now.
I am glad I am done traveling especially Europe. These places are going down the drain. The Bible says the Muslims will take over. How easy the West is making it for them.
“” “” We here in USA have sharia counsels operating here already.
The argument that these bs Islamic courts are fair is such a joke.
Women gave NO rights in sharia courts.”” “”
The difference is Limeys want this as a part of national judicial system. Imagine a ‘judge’ deciding which body part gets amputated appointed and paid by the government.
This is I don’t work in Manhattan anymore but I hope to see one on staten island some day, as do about 300,000 other Italian Americans who couldn’t give a FLYING #### about their fake “hate campaign” fear.
They #### with our Island and they WILL have a REAL reason to fear a “hate campaign”
We’re not liberal and we’re not metrosexual and I’m sure the still pretty large number of gangsters out here would LOVE!!!! to run into them.
I DONT CARE what happens to the other four boroughs anymore.
I wanted to move to PA though I like staten island but wife likes to work in manhattan and be near mom until she drops dead.
It may end up she meets me up in PA when she retires.
Too many damn albanins and russians moving to staten island also and they turn my stomach almost as much as the muzzies.
They dress and act like Italian gangsters did in the 1980s.
But this Island still belongs to Italians so the muzzies and the russians and the albanians and obama’s animals on the north shore but ALWAYS ####ing remember that.
It could save their lives one day.
‘Members of the Muslim community voluntarily consent to accept the religious jurisdiction of sharia councils.’
Not that our no-fault system is anything to write home about, but the idea of a Muslim woman ‘consenting’ to ANYTHING is laughable.
In those communities, they literally have NO CHOICE but to see their lives upended if they dare to not ‘consent’.
If you read the article it states that anything the sharia council decides must be in accordance with UK lawSo there would not be any amputations.
It wkll be the women who will be the losers. Any non muslim who thinks muslom women have ewual rights before sharia law like they do before UK law or USA law is not paying attention.
It is either UK laws or sharia.
So this means Halakhah is alright too . . . right?
Jewish Beth Din courts have been operating in the UK for centuries. The Sharia courts have similar powers. Neither of them trump British Law.
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