Posted on 04/14/2015 10:06:30 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Muslim women across Britain are being systematically oppressed, abused and discriminated against by sharia law courts that treat women as second-class citizens, according to a new report, which warns against the spiraling proliferation of Islamic tribunals in the United Kingdom.
The 40-page report, “A Parallel World: Confronting the Abuse of Many Muslim Women in Britain Today,” was authored by Baroness Caroline Cox, a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords and one of the leading defenders of women's rights in the UK.
The report shows how the increasing influence of sharia law in Britain today is undermining the fundamental principle that there must be equality for all British citizens under a single law of the land. […]
The report shows that even in cases where Muslim tribunals work “in tandem” with police investigations, abused women often withdraw their complaints to the police, while sharia judges let the husbands go unpunished.
Meanwhile, most sharia courts, when dealing with divorce, do so only in a religious sense. They cannot grant civil divorce; they simply grant a religious divorce in accordance with sharia law. …
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Oh gee, stop the presses!!
FMCDH(BITS)
Women are lower than the status of livestock in the Mohammadan Death Cult.
Not long before the whole country is under Sharia Law
What a shock! Sharia courts are serving one of their primary purposes.
The muslims will denounce this and accuse its supporters of islamophobia.
In other news the Pope announces that he is Catholic.
Yep...very pervasive in a moral relevant culture. Still haven’t heard of any arrests in the systematic rape of young girls in England!
Duh!
This dumb old Southern boy knew this would happen 10 years ago & the British leadership did not? Do they pay people over there to be this ignorant, or do politicians there work for free? Do they read anything beyond the polls & the comics?
Surely, we do not have such ignorant politicians here in the USA. /sarc
I don’t understand. This has to be a mistake.
Erm, plenty of men have been arrested and jailed. Its the failure of social services to be prosecuted or driven out of their jobs that’s the issue currently.
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