Members Bill Today - Outlawing Sharia Law in UK
11 March 2016, 05:17 AM
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Members Bill Today - Outlawing Sharia Law in UK
A private members bill will be debated in Parliament today , to decide whether Sharia Courts should be permitted in the UK.
Apparently there are 85 courts currently presiding at the moment , making judgments outside of British Law.
It will be interesting to see which MP's are proposing to vote for the Bill and which MP's are voting to reject it.
Apparently there are 85 courts currently presiding at the moment , making judgments outside of British Law.
It will be interesting to see which MP's are proposing to vote for the Bill and which MP's are voting to reject it.
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11 March 2016, 12:56 PM
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11 March 2016, 01:16 PM
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There's nothing scheduled that I can see in parliament today
http://www.parliament.uk/business/ne...11-march-2016/
11 March 2016, 02:00 PM
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Devils advocate here.
These "courts" aren't legally enforceable in the UK. Isn't it in simple terms a bunch of people in a club doing by what a governing committee says?
These "courts" aren't legally enforceable in the UK. Isn't it in simple terms a bunch of people in a club doing by what a governing committee says?
11 March 2016, 02:20 PM
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Yes this is basically correct, the same way that we have Jewish Courts too. But it's difficult to get all outraged when you bother to look into the facts.
12 March 2016, 12:19 AM
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A private members bill will be debated in Parliament today , to decide whether Sharia Courts should be permitted in the UK.
Apparently there are 85 courts currently presiding at the moment , making judgments outside of British Law.
It will be interesting to see which MP's are proposing to vote for the Bill and which MP's are voting to reject it.
Apparently there are 85 courts currently presiding at the moment , making judgments outside of British Law.
It will be interesting to see which MP's are proposing to vote for the Bill and which MP's are voting to reject it.
How did the vote go Rob?
13 March 2016, 12:53 AM
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13 March 2016, 12:09 PM
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It might not mention it by name, but if you take the trouble to read the text it's pretty clear that major parts of it are likely to have had Sharia (or Sharia-derived culture) in mind when it was drafted:
It could of course be primarily targeted at Mormons, but given that according to latest figures, the followers of Joseph Smith are outnumbered in this country by their Koran-reading counterparts by over 15 to 1, I'm going to say that's unlikely 
For the purposes of subsection (11), discrimination on grounds of sex includes but is not restricted to —
(a) treating the evidence of a man as worth more than the evidence of a woman, or vice versa,
(b) proceeding on the assumption that the division of an estate between male and female children on intestacy must be unequal, or
(c) proceeding on the assumption that a woman has fewer property rights than a man, or vice versa.”
(a) treating the evidence of a man as worth more than the evidence of a woman, or vice versa,
(b) proceeding on the assumption that the division of an estate between male and female children on intestacy must be unequal, or
(c) proceeding on the assumption that a woman has fewer property rights than a man, or vice versa.”
Steps under subsection (3A) should include but not necessarily be restricted to —
(a) informing individuals of the need to obtain an officially recognised marriage in order to have legal protection, and
(b) informing individuals that a polygamous household may be without legal protection and a polygamous household may be unlawful.
(a) informing individuals of the need to obtain an officially recognised marriage in order to have legal protection, and
(b) informing individuals that a polygamous household may be without legal protection and a polygamous household may be unlawful.
13 March 2016, 01:14 PM
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