Report: Sharia leads to abuse of women in Britain
There has been a growing impulse among muslims living in America to establish sharia courts. This is not surprising. Wherever Islam exists as a minority religion, its followers eschew cultural assimilation and seek to keep 8th century practices originating in the Arabia desert as their cultural norm. Take, for instance, the suppression of free speech in Dearborn, Michigan, because blasphemy. The attempt by muslim students to prevent the showing of the film American Sniper. And rape as a team sport in the British city of Rotherham. Several US states have sought to ban sharia, but these laws have been overturned, in some cases, and the proponents ridiculed as a phobe-du-jour (I lose track of the phobias that underlie any disagreement with liberal orthodoxy). The argument runs to the effect that sharia law would not be used in criminal cases, it would only be used in cases of arbitration where all parties agreed to the rules to be used.
Contrary to what critics would have you believe, this is not an inconsequential problem. For proof of that we need only look at Britain where sharia courts have taken over predominantly muslim communities and have essentially eradicated an vestiges of Western concepts of justice or equality.
In 1996, in a virtual surrender to political correctness, Britain passed the Arbitration Act. This allowed civil disputes to be decided under sharia law and the sharia court findings would be enforceable by British courts. Now a report has been compiled by a member of the British House of Lords, Baroness Caroline Cox. The report, titled “A Parallel World: Confronting the Abuse of Many Muslim Women in Britain Today,” shows how women under sharia are just as much an abused underclass in Britain as they would be in any other godforsaken, Third World, Islamic craphole.
There has been a growing impulse among muslims living in America to establish sharia courts. This is not surprising. Wherever Islam exists as a minority religion, its followers eschew cultural assimilation and seek to keep 8th century practices originating in the Arabia desert as their cultural norm. Take, for instance, the suppression of free speech in Dearborn, Michigan, because blasphemy. The attempt by muslim students to prevent the showing of the film American Sniper. And rape as a team sport in the British city of Rotherham. Several US states have sought to ban sharia, but these laws have been overturned, in some cases, and the proponents ridiculed as a phobe-du-jour (I lose track of the phobias that underlie any disagreement with liberal orthodoxy). The argument runs to the effect that sharia law would not be used in criminal cases, it would only be used in cases of arbitration where all parties agreed to the rules to be used.
Contrary to what critics would have you believe, this is not an inconsequential problem. For proof of that we need only look at Britain where sharia courts have taken over predominantly muslim communities and have essentially eradicated an vestiges of Western concepts of justice or equality.
In 1996, in a virtual surrender to political correctness, Britain passed the Arbitration Act. This allowed civil disputes to be decided under sharia law and the sharia court findings would be enforceable by British courts. Now a report has been compiled by a member of the British House of Lords, Baroness Caroline Cox. The report, titled “A Parallel World: Confronting the Abuse of Many Muslim Women in Britain Today,” shows how women under sharia are just as much an abused underclass in Britain as they would be in any other godforsaken, Third World, Islamic craphole.
