Mecca II
That would be Britain, where the nitwits just agreed to let British Muslims subvert British laws with "voluntary" (tell that to the women) application of Sharia law. In Chronicles Magazine, Srdja Trifkovic lays out exactly how nuts that is:
Particularly alarming is the fact that Islamic rulings are now enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through the county courts or High Court. Previously such rulings could not be enforced by the British state.Shari'a courts with these powers have been set up in London, Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester with the network's headquarters in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, with two more courts planned for Glasgow and Edinburgh. A visibly pleased Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, whose Muslim Arbitration Tribunal runs the courts, explains that he had taken advantage of a clause in the British Arbitration Act of 1996, which classifies sharia courts as "arbitration tribunals" whose rulings are binding in law once both parties in a dispute agree to accept its authority. It goes without saying that battered Muslim wives and disinherited Muslim daughters will "freely choose" the authority of shari'a courts rather than face various unpleasant and potentially fatal consequences of not conforming to the "community's" rules and preferences.
What this means in practice was evident from a recent inheritance dispute in the Midlands, when the Nuneaton shari'a court divided the estate of a Muslim father between three daughters and two sons. The "judges" gave the sons twice as much as the daughters--perfectly in accordance with sharia, of course, but contrary to any regular British court, which would have given the daughters equal shares. In six cases of domestic violence quoted by Siddiqi, the "judges" ordered the husbands to take "anger management" classes and "mentoring from community elders" (such as imams and shari'a judges). In each case, the battered women subsequently withdrew the complaints and the police stopped their investigations. It should be noted that under normal British law those six cases could have been prosecuted as criminal, rather than "family" cases.
UNDERSTANDING SHARI'A--Muslim activists point out that allegedly simiral Jewish family courts (Bet Din) and Catholic marriage tribunals have existed in Britain for many years, but there is a major difference: such courts explicitly claim jurisdiction only over their believers, whereas according to orthodox Islamic teaching shari'a is the only legitimate law in the world, with universal jurisdiction over Muslims and non-Muslims alike. To a devout Muslim the incorporation of shari'a into British law is by no means the end of the affair. It is merely a major milestone on the road that cannot stop short of subjecting all Britons, regardless of faith, to the stricutres of Allah's commandment and Muhammad's example.







Game over in the UK.
Jeff at September 20, 2008 9:00 PM
And you can find out all the details of their plans right here in their own words, so there's no need to visit that notorious 'Islamophobe' Robert Spencer for information:
http://islam4uk.com/
GMan at September 21, 2008 1:55 AM
..... So. How does one go about getting a Green Card?
Actually I think New Zealand is the way to go.
Except I don't want to run away, I'm too stubborn for that. Don't write us off just yet.
But I weep for my country.
Simon Proctor at September 22, 2008 4:43 AM
And the Orthodox Jewish courts are rife with corruption as well--read some back issues of NY magazine for various divorce and custody horror stories. No country can give up administration of justice to a subcontractor. Anyone who wants to live in Britain or the US or Canada should expect to follow the laws of that state--not sharia law, not Holy Ghost law, not Jude law.
I still don't understand why Muslims were so hot to live in Britain if they don't like the legal system, the schools, the customs. It can't be the weather.
Kate at September 22, 2008 10:56 AM
Amy, I don't always agree with you on these Muslim issues, but wow... this is really insane. The Brits are self-destructing.
Nicole K at September 22, 2008 7:31 PM
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