Just FYI on an article in today's NY Times on the Islamic courts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/wo...hariah.html?hp
Britain Grapples With Role for Islamic Justice
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
Published: November 18, 2008
LONDON — The woman in black wanted an Islamic divorce. She told the religious judge that her husband hit her, cursed her and wanted her dead.
But her husband was opposed, and the Islamic scholar adjudicating the case seemed determined to keep the couple together. So, sensing defeat, she brought our her secret weapon: her father.