Sharia law has been recognised by the British High Court for the first time after a judge made a “landmark ruling” which is set to act as a precedent and allow a sharia legal system to run in parallel with UK law.
The High Court ruled that a Muslim couple’s sharia law marriage, conducted in a ceremony called a nikah, falls under British matrimonial law despite it not being legally recognised as such.
The judge heard that the Pakistani couple, Mrs Akhtar and her businessman husband Mohammed Shabaz Khan, had lived in London, Birmingham and Dubai. They had taken part in a sharia law ceremony at a restaurant in Southall, west London, nearly 20 years ago. Mrs Akhtar said the ceremony was conducted by an imam before about 150 guests.
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What does this precedent mean for sharia law in Britain?
In the high-profile case in the High Court, Mrs Akhtar and her businessman husband Mohammed Shabaz Khan were deemed to have a valid marriage. The court’s recognition of sharia law means Nasreen Akhtar will be free to bring her case to the divorce court and claim her share of the assets of her marriage.
The case will have significant implications for women who marry under sharia law but not UK law and could give them the right to divorce their husbands and split the assets related to the union, as well as securing a divorce more easily.
More widely, the ruling provides support to Islamic extremists trying to claim parts of the country as their own fiefdoms, subject to their own arbitrary laws.
There are thought to be at least 100 sharia law courts operating throughout the UK, dispensing Islamic justice outside the remit of the British legal system. “Sharia-controlled zones” have sprung up around the country, with “sharia religious police” patrolling streets to enforce the local population obey the radical Islamic law.
Express reports: When Canadian liberals tried to make rulings in sharia courts legally binding in 2004 the idea was quickly abandoned after protests from Muslim women. They said the very reason they had come to Canada was to escape sharia law in their homelands.
The same is true in Britain — those who have most to fear from sharia law are not white, Christian families but Muslims themselves, especially women.
Yet it has been left to a crossbencher in the House of Lords, Baroness Cox, to table a Private Members’ Bill on sharia law which would make it an offence, punishable by up to five years in jail, for sharia courts to misrepresent their powers or pressurise anyone into accepting their judgments.
If the Government does not like Baroness Cox’s law it should pass its own legislation. When Parliament passed the 1996 Arbitration Act it did not envisage that Islamicists would use it to establish a system of sharia courts and there is no reason why it cannot be revised to exclude them.
The alternative as we have seen this week is for the Government to sit back while extremists try to claim parts of the country as their own fiefdoms, subject to their own arbitrary laws.
It is a disgrace that a country so outwardly committed to human rights should allow this to happen.
Baxter Dmitry
Email: baxter@thepeoplesvoice.tv
the british are gutless to allow islam to dominate they will pay the price for their stupidity….. look at Sweden, Switzerland, and germany. They all have experienced huge rises in Rape and Murder and will until they chase em back to the middle east where they belong
Sadly, I can only agree. Our politeness, sense of fairness, political correctness and inclination to just shrug our shoulders at events detrimental to us will become our undoing.
After all the sacrifices made by our predecessors, including their loss of life in defending these islands, this country has now been lost without a bullet fired, all thanks to our traitorous judiciary and politicians. RIP Britain. Now in the twilight of my years, I give thanks that I had the opportunity to experience growing up in one of the loveliest countries on Earth. Just post-WW2, the best period possible. My conscience is clear when it comes to my grandchildren, as a British Nationalist activist and local election candidate against a powerful enemy, I did my best to stop the inevitable. Perhaps there is still a slight chance…..
WAR is the ONLY option.
“No Porn or Prostitution” just spotted on those signs. Are they having a joke? If so, a poor one. Are those the same zones where they were (and are) entrapping, drugging, (gang) raping, pimping and possibly murdering young White girls (as likely with Charlene Downes, 14) of Christian heritage ONLY (often under consensual age) on an industrial scale – in the 1000’s? Yet the police state “No racial motive”. All whilst those who are supposed to protect them, the police, social services, crown prosecution service, the media, etc, turn a blind eye, denying it until the problem became too big to hide? All those still on fat salaries or pensions? All despite it being pointed out by Nick Griffin and the BNP decades ago, for which they were castigated, demonised and eventually side-lined. This scum might escape justice in this world but as a Christian, I know they will face Divine retribution in the next.
This will not end well for the UK…
division by multiplication A house divided cannot stand No man can serve two masters No parliament house no PM can survive a legal division which could easily lead to civil war.Islam doesnt support Monarchy for a start.Nor does it support Judaism.
One wonders whether a patriotic Brit, will hunt this “Judge”? down, and terminate him? It would appear justified! It appears unfortunate that the British people do not have a 2nd Amendment like the US? Sic Semper Tyrannis !
Look at the HATE in that mans face. Stupid England is once again a muslim country. King Richard and Queen Elisabeth the 1st are rolling over in their graves. This has been the plans of the muslims all the long to take over the world by going into countries claiming to escape war but to take over the country they invaded as so called refugees. The left is either to stupid to see it or just don’t care what freedoms they are willing and going to have to give up. Kiss your six year old daughters good bye, they will be marrying sick perverted old muslim men.
he only thing they understand is violence