I often agree with John Bolch about sharia law; always, in fact. So it’s no surprise I should agree with his post yesterday about the claim made by an Islamic “scholar” that sharia law doesn’t discriminate against women. The fact that such a claim can even be made is enough to make you shake your head, or sigh.
I think John’s quite right to call this chap deluded if he can’t see the inequality that’s indisputably proved by the chart on his wall. I also think John may be right that there’s just no reasoning with this kind of person.
Many of us out here know the truth but many are afraid to speak against the development of these courts. They ought to be closed down now and not encouraged by well-meaning but stupid people – no namens no pack drill!
did you know there are sharia courts in Texas, Minnesota & possibly New Jersey?
I believe that Lord Phillips was seriously misguided when he equated referral of some family disputes to Sharia Courts as equivalent to referring a technical business contract to arbitration. His stance has only encouraged the development of Sharia and, to be frank, nobody knows where this development is heading. The use of Sharia Courts has already extended into family disputes and might well expand into other areas including, possibly, criminal law. It is high time that the leaders of English law removed their bewigged heads from the sand and started to draw a line in that sand.
"the point is that we cannot have two separate systems in one country"
Er, virtually no-one is arguing about that we should have two separate systems of law. It is possible to have Sharia law in the same way that you can have Beth Din courts, or footballers' tribunal courts (forget their name). It can merely be used as form of consensual law between two parties that operates within UK laws.
And Sharia isn't necessarily anti-women. Yes a lot of it is, but there are many different implementations of Sharia law. People complain about beheadings in Saudi Arabia under Sharia law, but that's like judging Common law by the US death penalty. ANd the same goes for the anti-women parts. They aren't a necessary part of Sharia law.