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Petition Calling For Sharia Reform Delivered To No 10
In Sharia courts women are seen as having half the worth of men and are trapped in ‘marital captivity’.
Can the government wield any influence, and if so, how?
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Can the government wield any influence, and if so, how?
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Arbitration is legal under British law.
Governments could make religion based arbitration (need to discuss definitions carefully) illegal, arbitration boards need licensing and stuff like that; but I'm unsure there is political will. The State can not afford to be seen discriminating against a religious group (giving them privileged exceptions is ok though).
Governments could make religion based arbitration (need to discuss definitions carefully) illegal, arbitration boards need licensing and stuff like that; but I'm unsure there is political will. The State can not afford to be seen discriminating against a religious group (giving them privileged exceptions is ok though).
mikey; //Sharia Law only exists because people submit themselves to it.//
How little you know! There are 'Sharia police' in Saudi Arabia patrolling the streets and will whip women whose covering they feel insufficient, and from any man not in a mosque at Friday prayer time, has to give a good reason why.
How little you know! There are 'Sharia police' in Saudi Arabia patrolling the streets and will whip women whose covering they feel insufficient, and from any man not in a mosque at Friday prayer time, has to give a good reason why.
UK law is not going to affect Saudi Arabia.
Anyway it is totally wrong that a woman is worth only 50% of a man. They are at least 80%.
Without barring these arbitration courts altogether it is going to be a long long long time before some adopt the UK culture sufficiently to drop this sort of thing. Probably take generations if even then.
Anyway it is totally wrong that a woman is worth only 50% of a man. They are at least 80%.
Without barring these arbitration courts altogether it is going to be a long long long time before some adopt the UK culture sufficiently to drop this sort of thing. Probably take generations if even then.
//perhaps she should have gone to the Police instead ?//
Many of these ladies wouldn’t consider going to the police – in fact I’d hazard a guess that they are unaware of that option. Within Islam it is permissible for a man to hit his disobedient wife – in fact it’s openly recommended - and since women are raised from birth to depend upon the dubious wisdom of the men surrounding them it wouldn’t occur to them to do otherwise. I recall reading on an ‘Ask the Imam’ website a post from a very concerned pregnant lady who asked whether or not she should follow the advice of her midwife – advice which she thought might be ’un-Islamic’. Fortunately, after bleating on about Allah, Mohammed, etc., for a while, the Imam advised her, in that instance, to do as her midwife recommended. There are many cases of men preventing women from receiving medical and dental treatment simply because the doctor happens to be male, so this perception and acceptance by both men and women that females are lesser mortals incapable of making their own decisions is really incredibly dangerous to them. A whole change of culture is required here – but since this abuse emanates directly from highly respected Islamic literature that is deemed beyond criticism, I can’t see it happening, so I’m at a loss to know what the government can do about it.
Many of these ladies wouldn’t consider going to the police – in fact I’d hazard a guess that they are unaware of that option. Within Islam it is permissible for a man to hit his disobedient wife – in fact it’s openly recommended - and since women are raised from birth to depend upon the dubious wisdom of the men surrounding them it wouldn’t occur to them to do otherwise. I recall reading on an ‘Ask the Imam’ website a post from a very concerned pregnant lady who asked whether or not she should follow the advice of her midwife – advice which she thought might be ’un-Islamic’. Fortunately, after bleating on about Allah, Mohammed, etc., for a while, the Imam advised her, in that instance, to do as her midwife recommended. There are many cases of men preventing women from receiving medical and dental treatment simply because the doctor happens to be male, so this perception and acceptance by both men and women that females are lesser mortals incapable of making their own decisions is really incredibly dangerous to them. A whole change of culture is required here – but since this abuse emanates directly from highly respected Islamic literature that is deemed beyond criticism, I can’t see it happening, so I’m at a loss to know what the government can do about it.
mikey; Is Sheffield close enough? I'm getting sent one of these every day during the current campaign;
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///In 2011, Britain's Muslims began demanding that Sharia replace British common law and become the only law in towns with large Muslim populations, including Birmingham, Bradford, Derby, Dewsbury, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Luton, Manchester, Sheffield, Waltham Forest and Tower Hamlets,///
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