[DemolitionRed]

All they really do is arbitration tribunals, which deal with anything from family or business disputes to mundane and banal daily issues. Another thing Sharia law allows is religious considerations over the way meat is slaughtered. Every court must have a British registered lawyer in attendance with a scholar of Islamic law and so if it seeps outside the box, the lawyer always has authority over the religious scholar.

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

All they really do is arbitration tribunals, which deal with anything from family or business disputes to mundane and banal daily issues. Another thing Sharia law allows is religious considerations over the way meat is slaughtered. Every court must have a British registered lawyer in attendance with a scholar of Islamic law and so if it seeps outside the box, the lawyer always has authority over the religious scholar.

Don't forget allowing a husband to divorce his wife by saying "I divorce you" three times and leaving her pennyless and on the street cos she was never aloud to work and encouraging physical punishment if the wife misbehaves.
How does the wife get divorced if she's unhappy?
"A Muslim woman may petition a qadi, or in non-Islamic areas an Islamic community panel, to grant her divorce if the husband refuses. The waiting period (iddah) of a woman who seeks a divorce is one menstrual cycle or one month if she is post-menopauseal, i.e. ceased menstruating."

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Don't forget allowing a husband to divorce his wife by saying "I divorce you" three times and leaving her pennyless and on the street cos she was never aloud to work and encouraging physical punishment if the wife misbehaves.
How does the wife get divorced if she's unhappy?
"A Muslim woman may petition a qadi, or in non-Islamic areas an Islamic community panel, to grant her divorce if the husband refuses. The waiting period (iddah) of a woman who seeks a divorce is one menstrual cycle or one month if she is post-menopauseal, i.e. ceased menstruating."

ffs :/

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Don't forget allowing a husband to divorce his wife by saying "I divorce you" three times and leaving her pennyless and on the street cos she was never aloud to work and encouraging physical punishment if the wife misbehaves.
How does the wife get divorced if she's unhappy?
"A Muslim woman may petition a qadi, or in non-Islamic areas an Islamic community panel, to grant her divorce if the husband refuses. The waiting period (iddah) of a woman who seeks a divorce is one menstrual cycle or one month if she is post-menopauseal, i.e. ceased menstruating."

Talaq (Muslim divorce) isn't recognised in the UK unless the divorce took place out of this country. They have to go through normal UK proceedings for a decree absolute and then if they wish, they can go to a Sharia court for a Talaq. Its the same with marriage. Many Muslims in the UK have what's called a Nikah ceremony but this isn't recognized as a marriage under British law and so if a Talaq goes ahead after a Nikah marriage, as far as English law is concerned, the couple were merely cohabiting.

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

Talaq (Muslim divorce) isn't recognised in the UK unless the divorce took place out of this country. They have to go through normal UK proceedings for a decree absolute and then if they wish, they can go to a Sharia court for a Talaq. Its the same with marriage. Many Muslims in the UK have what's called a Nikah ceremony but this isn't recognized as a marriage under British law and so if a Talaq goes ahead after a Nikah marriage, as far as English law is concerned, the couple were merely cohabiting.

Yeah but how many of them even operate under UK law.Many will just get a Sharia divorce then an Islamic marriage and carry on.

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Yeah but how many of them even operate under UK law.Many will just get a Sharia divorce then an Islamic marriage and carry on.

More fool them. Legally married foreign couples in the UK have more rights than couples who cohabit. This is no different to Brits who get married on a choral island out in the Pacific. If they don't do things according to British law, then British law will not step in as their protectorate when the **** hits the fan.

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

More fool them. Legally married foreign couples in the UK have more rights than couples who cohabit. This is no different to Brits who get married on a choral island out in the Pacific. If they don't do things according to British law, then British law will not step in as their protectorate when the **** hits the fan.

Hence why women get treated the way they do in those communities.
They're a law unto themselves.

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Hence why women get treated the way they do in those communities.
They're a law unto themselves.

They probably have very little knowledge of their civil rights within a British marriage. If all they have ever know is Sharia law, to them a Nikah marriage is
the real thing.

Under Sharia law, a divorced woman can normally keep her child until the age of seven and then that child must be handed over to the father. In the UK though, regardless of a Nikah marriage or a Talaq divorce, British law will decide who should keep full or part custody of the children... Sharia courts have no power over this.