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Gator
11-19-2008, 02:17 PM
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.
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Muezzin
11-24-2008, 07:45 PM
The Church of England has its own ecclesiastical courts. British Jews have had their own “beth din” courts for more than a century.
“There is nothing whatever in English law that prevents people abiding by Shariah principles if they wish to, provided they do not come into conflict with English law,” the justice minister, Jack Straw, said last month. But he added that British law would “always remain supreme,” and that “regardless of religious belief, we are all equal before the law.”
Just a little strategic quotation in Operation Troll Discouragement.
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Hamayun
11-24-2008, 07:48 PM
format_quote Originally Posted by Muezzin
Just a little strategic quotation in Operation Troll Discouragement.

Couldn't have put it better myself.
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