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Inside Britain's secretive sharia courts: Veil is lifted on the religious tribunals where [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | June 1, 2018 | David Jones

Posted on 06/02/2018 4:09:59 AM PDT by C19fan

What strikes you first is the squalid nature of the women’s stories. Their husbands have beaten and abused them, they claim; lied and cheated, cavorted with prostitutes, become addicted to drugs. One weeping wife even accuses her spouse of molesting her infant child. Wearing colourful headscarves and robes, and often clutching handbags stuffed with banknotes to pay the £300 fee for their cases to be decided, this procession of downtrodden women have come before a panel of three judges to plead for their miserable marriages to be dissolved.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: islam
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In British sharia courts, 90 per cent of the petitioners are female and almost all cases involve divorce. According to the Home Office, there are many reasons for this. About 100,000 British Muslim couples — more than 60 per cent of the total — are not legally married, since they have only undergone an Islamic wedding, or nikah, and failed to register their marriages civilly.

1 posted on 06/02/2018 4:10:00 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Only women can change this


2 posted on 06/02/2018 4:13:57 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ronnie raygun

Oh yes, Linda Sarsour is on the march.


3 posted on 06/02/2018 4:23:08 AM PDT by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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To: ronnie raygun

No, the people of Great Britain can only change this. Men, women and children, if necessary. Get rid of the sharia courts, first of all. Send who you can home to their sh*thole countries.


4 posted on 06/02/2018 4:36:25 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

This is sickening but the Brits did it to themselves.


5 posted on 06/02/2018 4:45:26 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: C19fan

The Magna Carta came from this country???????


6 posted on 06/02/2018 6:06:59 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: miss marmelstein
Get rid of the sharia courts, first of all

I wonder about the logic of that. Given that their only legal status is that of voluntary tribunals by whose rulings the two parties agree to be bound, and that they are only permitted to judge civil, and not criminal cases, it could be argued that they're saving the taxpayer money by keeping these cases out of the mainstream court system.

As for 'sending who you can home', 'who you can' is the rub. The majority of British Muslims are British citizens (many second or even third generation citizens): and for better or worse, there's been no legal means to deport or banish a British citizen since the punishment of transportation to the colonies was abolished in the 1850s.

7 posted on 06/02/2018 6:21:12 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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To: Winniesboy

Please, then, keep it all up. Not my country.


8 posted on 06/02/2018 6:24:10 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Winniesboy

Here’s a thought:

Instead of covering up thousands and thousands of cases of child rape, pedophilia, Sudden Jihad Syndrome, threatening ordinary people with arrest for speaking their minds, wasting resources chasing down “hate speech”, and the like, your Government might try being honest with The British people and admit you have a terrible problem with a certain easily identifiable subset of your population.

Just a suggestion mind you.

L


9 posted on 06/02/2018 6:31:21 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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