I told you so.. (continued)

ISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.

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"Previously, the rulings of sharia courts in Britain could not be enforced, and depended on voluntary compliance among Muslims.

It has now emerged that sharia courts with these powers have been set up in London, Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester with the network’s headquarters in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Two more courts are being planned for Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, whose Muslim Arbitration Tribunal runs the courts, said he had taken advantage of a clause in the Arbitration Act 1996.

Under the act, the sharia courts are classified as arbitration tribunals. The rulings of arbitration tribunals are binding in law, provided that both parties in the dispute agree to give it the power to rule on their case.

Siddiqi said: “We realised that under the Arbitration Act we can make rulings which can be enforced by county and high courts. The act allows disputes to be resolved using alternatives like tribunals. This method is called alternative dispute resolution, which for Muslims is what the sharia courts are.”

The disclosure that Muslim courts have legal powers in Britain comes seven months after Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was pilloried for suggesting that the establishment of sharia in the future “seems unavoidable” in Britain."
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Turns out there are similar Jewish courts. Hm. How about we all just follow one judicial system, in the name of national unity? No?

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"Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, said: “If it is true that these tribunals are passing binding decisions in the areas of family and criminal law, I would like to know which courts are enforcing them because I would consider such action unlawful. British law is absolute and must remain so.”
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Sharia law SERIOUSLY conflicts with British law. Wouldn't that make the presence of Sharia courts impossible in Britain? Which law are British muslims supposed to follow? A muslim man beats his wife, he gets a bit of anger management (seriously). Any other man beats his wife, he gets a consequence that might actually make him stop doing it. Hmmm... I suppose it's that darn leftist subjectivity kicking in again.