Sharia Law gets OK in Britain

By CLODAGH HARTLEY
Home Affairs Correspondent

Published: 15 Sep 2008

ISLAMIC law has been ushered into Britain by the back door.

Ministers have quietly given Sharia courts power to rule on Muslim civil cases.

These range from divorce and financial disputes to domestic violence. But furious Tories said the step “pandered to Islamic extremists”. MP Philip Davies said: “There can be only one legal system — British law. This will lead to a segregated society.”

Powers of Sharia judges have been sanctioned at five courts in London, Birmingham, Bradford, Manchester and Nuneaton, Warwicks.

Two more are planned for Glasgow and Edinburgh. If both parties in a dispute agree to abide by their rulings, they are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system.

Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, whose Muslim Arbitration Tribunal runs the courts, used a clause in the Arbitration Act 1996. It allows Sharia hearings to be classed as ‘arbitration tribunals’.

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Pug says: Why was this kept hush hush..... I think it's a fuckin disgrace. All I can say is get rid of the fucking lot of them, there more trouble than enough and get rid of this government as well. In with the BNP that's what's needed!

Where's the British Bulldog Breed?