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The Times has a big feature today on the growth of Sharia tribunals in the UK. It has undertaken an investigation that concludes that Britain has become the “western capital” for sharia courts, dealing with such areas as family and inheritance law.
“An investigation by The Times also discovered that polygamy is so normalised that an app for Muslims in England and Wales to create Islamic wills has a drop-down menu for men to say how many wives they have (between one and four). The app, approved by a sharia court, gives daughters half as much inheritance as sons. The number of sharia courts, also known as councils, in Britain has grown to 85 since the first began operating in the country in 1982.
Muslims from across Europe and North America are increasingly turning to Britain’s sharia courts, which operate as informal bodies issuing religious rulings on marriage and family life.
About 100,000 Islamic marriages are believed to have been conducted in Britain, many of which are not officially registered with the civil authorities.”
Although it doesn’t really feature in the Times article, one of the key issues is how this fits in with the British legal system and laws such as the Equality Act. Some people say there is no real problem because none of the Muslim tribunals have legal standing in the UK. However, others point out that where people on both sides of a dispute agree to be bound by an agreed alternative dispute resolution mechanism such as arbitration, this has real world-impact and is legally sanctioned by the Arbitration Act, 1996.
The background to this is media reports about so-called Muslim patrols and the counter-reaction from certain UK groups. Much of the coverage is probably unreliable, but there do seem to have been incidents where Muslims have tried to impose their behavioural norms on persons walking in public areas. At least five persons have been jailed for offences relating to this.
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Britain is the Western Sharia Law Capital on 09:18 - Dec 21 with 252 views
One area of the UK is one area too much imo once you set a precedent then how do you reverse that decision, I apprciate nor where near as volatile but No go areas were not tolerated in Belfast or L/Derry during the Troubles .
"In a free society, the State is the servant of the people—not the master."
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Britain is the Western Sharia Law Capital on 09:48 - Dec 21 with 235 views
Friend of mine that lives there assures me it's happening right now, openly break the rules and refuse to comply, you run the risk of being stabbed in the arse by a bunch of muslim enforcers, fact.
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