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Fearing being struck by the “Islamophobia” battering ram, the UK government “has refused to make the registration of sharia marriages mandatory out of fear of appearing ‘Islamophobic.'”
All Muslims should be adhering to the law of the land once they move to Western countries and recognize the equality of rights of all people, but all too often that is not the case. The UK has degenerated into a two-tier legal system: one for Muslims and the other for everyone else. Even the victims of the Muslim rape gangs were told to “shut up for the good of diversity” — a message that was retweeted by Muslim Labour MP Naz Shah. Sharia courts in the UK (over 85 of them) have long been operating beyond the reach of British law and oppressing women. For example, a Sharia court handed down a sentence approving of honor killing; another ordered a traumatized woman to return to her abusive rapist husband. It would seem too shocking to be true, just like the Muslim rape gangs, but these accounts are indeed true.
In late 2017, it emerged that “almost two-thirds of Muslim wives in Britain were married in Nikah ceremonies which are not legally binding, leaving them unprotected by family courts.” Among these marriages are forced marriages, child marriages and polygamous marriages.
Abuse of women is justified under Sharia, but to defend human rights in the face of such victimization earns one the label of “Islamophobe.”
Here’s a short peek of how women are treated under the Sharia.
Despite the inequities between genders in normative Islam and abuses of women sanctioned in Sharia, the UK government is more concerned about identity politics than about human rights.
All Muslims should be adhering to the law of the land once they move to Western countries and recognize the equality of rights of all people, but all too often that is not the case. The UK has degenerated into a two-tier legal system: one for Muslims and the other for everyone else. Even the victims of the Muslim rape gangs were told to “shut up for the good of diversity” — a message that was retweeted by Muslim Labour MP Naz Shah. Sharia courts in the UK (over 85 of them) have long been operating beyond the reach of British law and oppressing women. For example, a Sharia court handed down a sentence approving of honor killing; another ordered a traumatized woman to return to her abusive rapist husband. It would seem too shocking to be true, just like the Muslim rape gangs, but these accounts are indeed true.
In late 2017, it emerged that “almost two-thirds of Muslim wives in Britain were married in Nikah ceremonies which are not legally binding, leaving them unprotected by family courts.” Among these marriages are forced marriages, child marriages and polygamous marriages.
Abuse of women is justified under Sharia, but to defend human rights in the face of such victimization earns one the label of “Islamophobe.”
Here’s a short peek of how women are treated under the Sharia.
- Women’s testimony is worth half that of a man (Qur’an 2:282)
- A wife must make herself available for sexual relations on demand by her husband — marital rape
- Sharia permits a man to beat his wife (Qur’an 4:34), “so wife-beating might not be considered wrong by a shariah tribunal; moreover there is a tradition of Muhammad that “a man will not be asked as to why he beat his wife” (Sunan Abu Dawood), which can mean in practice that the onus placed on a woman who reports domestic violence to explain why she is being beaten, while the husband is not required to give an account of his actions.”
- Age of consent – Islamic law has no minimum age for a girl to marry, based on the precedent of Muhammad, “who married Aisha when she was six, and consummated the marriage when she was nine.”
- Male guardianship – men are guardians of women, exercising legal authority over them including in relation to their marriages: an Islamic marriage is a contract between the groom and the guardian of the bride, and Islamic law does not permit a woman to give herself in marriage,
- Forced marriage – “in Islamic law, fathers and grandfathers, known as a walī mujbir ‘forcing guardian’, have the right to compel a virgin daughter to marry without her permission.”
- Honour based violence. Honor murder is permitted in Islam. These are exemptions to murder according to the Sharia Sunni manual Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveler). Section o1.2, such as: i)A child or insane person, under any circumstances ii)A Muslim for killing a non-Muslim iii)A Jewish or Christian subject of the Islamic state for killing an apostate from Islam iv) A father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring
- Female Genital Mutilation (Sahih Bukhari: 7:72:777, Umdat al-Salik e4.3)
- Child custody and child protection – “Islamic law gives fathers guardianship over children, and only temporary custody of children to mothers up to a certain age.”
- Polygamy – “Islam permits a man up to four wives, but a woman no more than one husband”
- Divorce – a man can divorce his wife irrevocably by saying ‘I divorce you’ three times, known as the triple-talaq, “but for a women to obtain a divorce is difficult and time-consuming, and normally involves the payment of compensation to the husband, which may requires the intervention – and expense – of a shariah judge or tribunal”.
- Inter-religious relationships – “Islamic law rejects the marriage of a Muslim woman to a non-Muslim man, and if a spouse leaves Islam the marriage is automatically annulled”.
- Female dress codes – the veiling of women but not of men (Qur’an 24:31, 33:59)
Despite the inequities between genders in normative Islam and abuses of women sanctioned in Sharia, the UK government is more concerned about identity politics than about human rights.
