In Leyton, England sharia courts have been operating for years, but they were always closed to public scrutiny. Now there comes this expose on the inner sanctum of a sharia court courtesy the Guardian. They show two cases of divorce to illustrate how sharia works. It is disturbing as it clearly shows the cleric running the court is following Islamic doctrine exaactly as laid down in the Qur'an. The disnissal of one womans complaint as so much whining should make anyone cringe.
Any moment now, woman's rights groups, feminists and the left will call for reforms within Islam giving Muslim women equal rights under the law.
Wait for it....
From the Guardian March 9 by Afua Hirsch
What does it actually look like inside a sharia court? You would think, given the frequency of alarming headlines about the spread of Islamic tribunals in the UK, that journalists had long been sitting in and watching proceedings. But that's far from the case.
Oklahoma became the first state to try introducing a new law banning its courts from considering sharia rules and principles.
(.)"...Dr Suhaib Hasan, who is seen presiding over one woman's request for a divorce, asks her whether her husband has ever subjected her to violence.
"He has hit me in the past, yes," she replies. "He hit me once."
"Once only," Hasan replies. "So it's not a very serious matter."
So hitting only once is no cause for concern but hitting twice is? Hasan is upholding sura 4 verse 34 which says that in order to discipline disobedient women you can and should beat them. Also it is not that serious because, as Hasan implies that she obviously has learned her lesson as there have been no other reported attitude problems.
This is how woemn are treated by sharia.
This is Islam.
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Any moment now, woman's rights groups, feminists and the left will call for reforms within Islam giving Muslim women equal rights under the law.
Wait for it....
From the Guardian March 9 by Afua Hirsch
Time for the sharia courts to open up
The Guardian's unprecedented filming of sharia court proceedings shows that more transparency would benefit everyone
In fact sharia courts – now operating in cities around England and Scotland – have remained remarkably closed. In the meantime they have enjoyed an almost universally bad press. Ever since Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan William's 2008 comment that "the application of sharia in certain circumstances…seems unavoidable", the red-tops frequently sound warnings about Islamic law "taking over".
Rowan Williams has proven himself the dhimmi extraordinaire in Britain and one who deserves nothing less than censure and to fall from grace. He will not be missed when he is gone.
In 2009 think-tank Civitas published a report claiming that sharia courts had crossed the proper limits of their jurisdiction and were regularly giving illegal advice on marriage and divorce and there have been regular controversies ever since.
In the US things are even worse. Passing laws that ban sharia law from being recognised in legal decisions has become the latest American trend. Last year Oklahoma became the first state to try introducing a new law banning its courts from considering sharia rules and principles.
(.)"...Dr Suhaib Hasan, who is seen presiding over one woman's request for a divorce, asks her whether her husband has ever subjected her to violence.
"He has hit me in the past, yes," she replies. "He hit me once."
"Once only," Hasan replies. "So it's not a very serious matter."
So hitting only once is no cause for concern but hitting twice is? Hasan is upholding sura 4 verse 34 which says that in order to discipline disobedient women you can and should beat them. Also it is not that serious because, as Hasan implies that she obviously has learned her lesson as there have been no other reported attitude problems.
This is how woemn are treated by sharia.
This is Islam.
Read it all
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