Sharia Law.

[KateLMead]

I have written about the fact Sharia courts are alive and well over the past ten years 'and that they have government approval. These courts are or I should say have been kept secret.. Read of the shocking exposure of these 85 courts attached generally to Mosques where Sharia laws are conducted, is and all kept very quiet . However for the first time ever government is getting involved Supposedly to ensure that women's right must be observed. I think 90 percent of the British "English" population did not and do not know they exist". ( Worth reading I might add.)

[Kaz]

It should not be allowed, everyone should have the same rights in this country and religion should be kept out of law!!

[Workingman]

Link to article

There was a report on Monday of police failings in dealing with domestic violence. The statistics threw up lots of figures for the total number of reports of DV, the number and percentage of prosecutions and cautions by police force, the speeds in which they were dealt, number of specialist officers....... The report was heavy on details, apart from a few.

There was no geographical breakdown of areas most affected. No indication of the social strata - A, B, C1, C2, D or E most affected, and no indication of which communities were suffering most.

Reading the above link I suspect that a lot of DV is dealt with in Sharia courts.

[Suff]

The Jews also have their own courts so they can deal with aspects of their own religious situation which is not covered by UK law.

They do it very quietly and with the full agreement of the UK government.

However there is one very salient point of the Jewish agreement. "Both" parties must agree to solve the dispute under Talmudic law and if there is a complaint made it is followed up by the British courts.

Sadly I believe that these illegal "Sharia" courts are used as a way to brush the "problem" of Islamic laws under the carpet. Once you do that the safeguards go out of the window.

[Workingman]

Domestic violence in any form, physical, emotional, psychological or financial, is not an aspect of religion; it breaks UK law and the UK's courts are where every complaint should be dealt with.

Allowing religious laws, of any sect, to take precedence over a state's criminal or common laws is an abomination.

[Kaz]

Agreeing with you there Frank, word for word!!!

[Suff]

I'm not disagreeing. I think the Talmud courts are for divorces etc, not for domestic violence which comes under the UK law.

I live with the spectre of domestic violence every day and see the aftermath of that it creates. If some man were condemned to death for it I would calmly administer the lethal injection myself and walk away with a clear conscience. I can't stand it and I won't stand up for anything which supports it.

Anyone who tried to circumvent it in UK law, in my mind, should be stripped of UK citizenship and expelled and I'm not too fussy about where either.

[TheOstrich]

85 Sharia courts only confirms that integration is a complete mockery in this country.

Sharia law degrades women and has no place in a society which supposedly champions equal rights. Shame on the people (including the former Archbishop of Canterbury) who support its implementation.

[Aggers]

I'm afraid I cannot take part in this discussion, because my views, if expressed,
would be deemed to be quite unacceptable in this god-forsaken country of ours.

[KateLMead]

Violence is perpetrated in all areas of our society, I witnessed the fear and sadistic beatings my mother suffered as a small child, a child born every year for seven years, and a hateful brute of a father. I also went through four years of serious abuse (that like so many women hide as they stupidly believe they themselves are the problem and the cause of the violence) and even worse they stupidly believe they love the abuser.. In my youth one had little protection from the law and indeed one suffered in silence. Sharia law is an abomination, and what infuriates me is that governments have kept the fact that they approved these courts going back that I was aware of over ten years ago. How long they have been up and running with consent would be an interesting revelation.