Number 9 wrote:SouthCoastShankly wrote:Number 9 wrote:village wrote:I am not from the UK, but a lifelong LFC fan.
I think that you have some Sharia courts operating in the UK don't you? I am sure I saw that on the news.
Is that true?
Depends on where you live though mate...I guess if you are living in a Muslim country with a dictator who controls whats said on the news it may have been reported....But rest assured there are no legal Sharia courts operating in the UK and never will be.
If it is going on,its behind closed doors and within their own communities...well thats up to them if they want to get involved in prehistoric laws.As long as it does not affect me or anyone I care about they are more than welcome to cut off their tongues,remove their eyes and stone eachother to death!
Unfortunately that's wrong. Sharia courts are being backed by the UK legal system. This is the problem.
A paragraph in the original article I quoted make it very clear -Last year The Sunday Times revealed that “Islamic law has been officially adopted in Britain, with Sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases”.
The courts, known as the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT), step far beyond their arbitrational remit. They themselves have boasted of having overseen six cases of domestic violence, working in tandem with police investigations. In each case the women who had been the subjects of abuse withdrew their complaints from the police while the MAT judges had suggested that the husbands take anger-management classes and advice from Muslim elders.
Im not getting too into this mate...but Sharia Courts are not being backed by the British legal system and what you say above does not even state that!
Basically from what that article says you could assume that a woman has been beaten/abused and dropped the charges(probably bullied into doing so),withdrew her allegations and the police were left powerless to act.This would be the same if the woman were Muslim,Hindu,Christian or whatever.
Then this silly MAT take over the case(when legally the case is dead and buried) and "boast" about sorting it out...telling the husband to go see lakes!
Anyway they can do what they want to eachother as far as Im concerned
Not really. MAT courts operate within the framework of English law, specifically section 1 of the Arbitration Act 1996. They basically are offered and backed as alternatives to the court system.
