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Lidt update om sharia i UK, - fra New York Times:



LONDON — The woman in black wanted an Islamic divorce. She told the
religious judge that her husband hit her, cursed her and wanted her dead.

Danfung Dennis for The New York Times


Islamic judges usually urge troubled couples to try to preserve their
marriages.

But her husband was opposed, and the Islamic scholar adjudicating the case
seemed determined to keep the couple together. So, sensing defeat, she
brought our her secret weapon: her father.

In walked a bearded man in long robes who described his son-in-law as a
hot-tempered man who had duped his daughter, evaded the police and
humiliated his family.

The judge promptly reversed himself and recommended divorce.

This is Islamic justice, British style. Despite a raucous national debate
over the limits of religious tolerance and the pre-eminence of British law,
the tenets of Shariah, or Islamic law, are increasingly being applied to
everyday life in cities across the country.

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Most Shariah councils do not recognize the Arbitration Act, although Mr.
Straw has been pushing them in recent months to do so. The main reason for
their opposition is that they do not want the state involved in what they
consider to be matters of religion.

The conflict over British Shariah courts comes at a time when Islamic
principles are being extended to other areas of daily life in Britain.

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Other cases involve disputes over property, labor, inheritances and physical
injury. The tribunals stay away from criminal cases that might call for the
imposition of punishments like lashing or stoning.

Indeed, most of the courts’ judgments have no standing under British civil
law. But for the parties who come before them, the courts offer something
more important: the imprimatur of God.

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I Malaysia breder sharia sig mere og mere, og omfatter på flere områder også
ikke-muslimer, - jfr "Adskillelsens Politik"

Men det bliver først vores børnebørn som får den glæde her i DK.