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.
Britain has not yet taken the step that would really damage the concept of equality under the law, namely to make resort to a shari'a court mandatory. OTOH, one must wonder how many Muslim women realize that they have the option of rejecting the initial resort to the shari'a court. And there's the larger point that the British government apparently doesn't get that the Muslims want to overthrow British democracy.
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Date: 2008-09-15 03:23 pm (UTC)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.
Britain has not yet taken the step that would really damage the concept of equality under the law, namely to make resort to a shari'a court mandatory. OTOH, one must wonder how many Muslim women realize that they have the option of rejecting the initial resort to the shari'a court. And there's the larger point that the British government apparently doesn't get that the Muslims want to overthrow British democracy.
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Date: 2008-09-15 07:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-15 10:07 pm (UTC)Question is, how will the UK Government react, if at all?