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TweetMore kowtowing to islam by the elite rulers of the Untied Kingdom. Such a shame, a once great and powerful nation selling itself out in the interest of not offending jihadists who want to kill them and install shariah law over the whole of England.
Islamic sharia law courts in Britain are exploiting a little-known legal clause to make their verdicts officially binding under UK law in cases including divorce, financial disputes and even domestic violence.
A new network of courts in five major cities is hearing cases where Muslims involved agree to be bound by traditional sharia law, and under the 1996 Arbitration Act the court’s decisions can then be enforced by the county courts or the High Court.
Officials behind the new system claim to have dealt with more than 100 cases since last summer, including six involving domestic violence which is a criminal rather than civil offence, and said they hoped to take over growing numbers of ‘smaller’ criminal cases in future.
The revelations sparked uproar yesterday, with warnings that the fundamental principle of equal treatment for all – the bedrock of British justice – was being gravely undermined.
Critics fear Britain’s Islamic hard-liners will now try to make sharia law the dominant legal system in Muslim neighbourhoods, and warn that women often receive less favourable treatment at the hands of the traditional Islamic courts.
The issue erupted into a major controversy earlier this year after the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams claimed publicly that formal recognition of sharia law ‘seemed unavoidable’, and Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips gave his backing to the use of Islamic courts to deal with family, marital and financial disputes.
Sharia courts have operated unofficially for years among Britain’s Muslim communities but until now their rulings could not be enforced, relying instead on parties agreeing voluntarily.
The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal panels, set up by lawyer Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, are now operating in London, Bradford, Manchester, Birmingham and Nuneaton, with more planned for Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Mr Siddiqi said: ‘We realised that under the Arbitration Act we can make rulings which can be enforced by county and High Courts.
‘The Act allows disputes to be resolved using alternatives like tribunals. This method is called alternative dispute resolution, which for Muslims is what the sharia courts are.’
Cases handled by the courts so far include Muslim divorce and inheritance to nuisance neighbours, he said.
Why that DEE DEE DEE Rowan Williams has not been stripped of his position or at least sent to a medical center so his head can be pulled out of his ass is beyond me. His validation of shariah law simply feeds into the problem that the muslim population explosion is going to create for all of Europe in a decade or two. And unlike the United States, Euros have no Declaration of Independence, nor a right to defend themselves (I believe England has now made it illegal to carry a knife, thank goodness, we wouldn’t want a backpack bomber getting stabbed on the way to blow up a subway or a bus.).
Read the entire article in the Daily Mail.
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