Breitbart / London
by Jack Montgomery
6/2/2018
Excerpt:
A journalist has been allowed a rare glimpse into the workings of Britain’s secretive Sharia Courts, which can preside over business, marriage, and financial disputes in the Muslim community under the Arbitration Act of 1996.
“What strikes you first is the squalid nature of the women’s stories. Their husbands have beaten and abused them, they claim; lied and cheated, cavorted with prostitutes, become addicted to drugs. One weeping wife even accuses her spouse of molesting her infant child,” reports David Jones in an article for the Daily Mail.
Jones describes how, “after much negotiation”, he was able to persuade the Sharia council in Birmingham to let him observe it in action as a “procession of downtrodden women” came to plead for the dissolution of their Islamic marriages “in windowless chamber in the city’s huge Central Mosque” — in exchange for a £300 fee.
Just how many courts of this kind are operating in Britain is unknown, with Reading University estimating around 30 and the think-tank Civitas estimating around 85 — but the Government has conceded that they pose a danger to Britain’s social cohesion, as they “keep many Muslims isolated, entrenched and with little social stake in wider British citizenship and life.”
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