Hat tip ACT for America
Here is a great documentary when a British undercover film crew got footage of what happens when a Muslim wife goes to a sharia court to find relief from her abusive husband.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOaJ_y8piNE
I take note that the place in question was a local Shura Council. They are the legal bodies within Islamic communities. Keep in mind we already have shura councils here in the US. They just cannot do all the wonderful things they can do in Britain-yet. The specific question here is should we leave American Muslim women to the mercies of these courts in the US-or give them the same rights other battered wives have to the law? If you agree with me that the latter option is right, you need to support actions in your states to ensure that only US law can be used in US courts. This is one of the biggest on-going legal battles in our country today.
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You know what efforts there are here to be sure that only US law can be used in our courts?
I get the feeling that things are a lot worse for a lot more women in England than this video portrays.
Under American law, a Muslim woman is free to take a family matter to a Shura Council, just as a Roman Catholic woman is free to make use of canon law.
The Shura Council MAY prevail upon the husband to mend his ways, but he isn't bound by its findings either. The Shura Council could excommunicate either or both of them, but that's about the limit of its power.
Either one of them can go to court anytime they want, in which case state family law and federal civil rights law rules, Shura is irrelevant.
If the Shura Council is unfamiliar with this, too bad. What's so hard to understand?
Siarlys,
It's a cautionary tale. This is what is happening in UK because the Brits allow it. We should not let it get to that point here.
Unlike the Brits, we have a WRITTEN constitution, and the constitution PRECEDES the existence of our federal government. Nor did we ever have an Established Church.
To this day in Britain, courts are empowered to examine what the doctrine of a DISSENTING church is, and then fashion rulings on the basis of the court's findings.
Cautionary tale... quack, quack.
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