A law within a law

There you go, you've helped show there is no logical reason to not having a dual law system

 

Academic Denis MacEoin, the report's author, said the existence of the courts practising Islamic law could lead to different legal standards being applied to Muslim and non-Muslim citizens.

 It is a challenge to what we believe to be the rights and freedoms of the individual, to our concept of a legal system based on what parliament enacts, and to the right of all of us to live in a society as free as possible from ethnic-religious division or communal claims to superiority and a special status that puts them in some respects above the law to which we are all bound."

 

There are concerns for women suffering under the Islamic laws, which favours men.     I'm sorry, but I'm sick of seeing this drivel. What a load of rubbish. Clearly written by someone who has the intellect of a five year old.

 

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.

 

In all six cases, he said, sharia judges ordered husbands to take anger management classes and mentoring from community elders, but issued no further punishment.

All the women subsequently withdrew their complaints to the police, who halted investigations.

 

Among the examples quoted are laws banning a Muslim woman from marrying a non-Muslim unless he converts to Islam and the removal of a wife's property rights in the event of divorce.

 

But critics fear Muslim women victims will be pressured into accepting a sharia court settlement, and husbands will escape with lighter punishments than in a mainstream criminal court.

 

Douglas Murray, the director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, condemned the latest development as 'appalling.'

 

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1055764/Islamic-sharia-courts-Britain-legally-binding.html?ITO=1490

 

Seems there are a lot of five year olds about then Odai? Many of them academics.

 

A little while ago there was that case of a British man (who actually lives in the same London borough as I do) got jailed in Dubai because he was sharing a passionate moment with his girlfriend in public.   Which is a disgusting thing to do, nobody else wants to see it. If you are a pervert, keep it to yourself please. What if a child saw it?

 

 

Now that depends on what they did doesn’t it? Do you know Odai?

 

That's very silly indeed... Aren't you aware of how silly that is? for God's sake do your own research!!!!!! Sharia is fair, end of. Look it up, research it. Why do you continue to post as if you haven't read anything I've written? I sincerely hope you're not doing this deliberately I'd have thought you'd know better than to look up this pile of rubbish when discussing something so serious.   Are you saying it's OK for people to have sex in public? What a joke...

Adultery at 15, at what age do they get married over there?!

What do you think people did before houses were invented??

Like I said, what is unfair?

True. Not so much "unfair" as totally despicable and disgusting.
Don't know if you have a sister but would you be happy for me to take her down to your local town centre and lash her with a whip just for spending time in the company of another man? Would that be "fair"?
Right now I'm torn between wanting to tell anyone who finds this kind of law acceptable to clear right off out of this civilised and progressive country or pleading with anyone who lives under Shariah rule to pack their bags and come over here as soon as they possibly can to get away from such disgusting laws.

Unbelievably this picture isn't from some film where they travel back to the dark ages, it was taken last year.

Some took pictures on mobile telephones, others climbed traffic lights for a better vantage point as Ghanbari was marched to the centre of the square under the watch of blue-uniformed guards carrying machine guns.

 

those receiving floggings included a woman, who had been forced into prostitution as an eight-year-old, receiving 99 lashes because of "acts contrary to chasity." Earlier this year, a man was flogged after a copy of the Bible was found in his car.

MartinW wrote: I've never had problems with anyone else, anywhere.   Really, we better not have a vote on this forum then. Many here would disagree with you I think you will find.   Shall we add up the members on this forum that have had a problem with your responses?   You don't regard your responses as rude then, or in anyway an overreaction?   You don't regard telling someone they have the intellect of a 5 year old as somewhat impolite then.

I had a big problem with him Martin, still do.  I know others who do but will definately NOT speak on their behalf.

Respectfully

Really, we better not have a vote on this forum then. Many here would disagree with you I think you will find.   Shall we add up the members on this forum that have had a problem with your responses?   You don't regard your responses as rude then, or in anyway an overreaction?   You don't regard telling someone they have the intellect of a 5 year old as somewhat impolite then

I did. From an Arab based news source.

And a picture tells a thousand words.

Is it that you are denying that the events described and shown above took place or were perhaps taken out of context?

Maybe we are confusing "law" and "punishment" here. However, if this sort on punishment is allowed or indeed deemed "fair" then it has no place in the UK.

I'm not religious but I've got more chance of making it into heaven than those two masked cowards beating on that guy being held down by the other guys.