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UK’s Sharia courts run by clerics who support amputation for theft, child marriage, marital rape, wife-beating

Mar 7, 2016 9:38 pm By Robert Spencer

And the British are surprised by this, because they have assumed all these years that Sharia is benign and completely compatible with Western pluralistic societies, and that only greasy Islamophobes thought otherwise. In reality, these Sharia courts are simply administering Islamic justice as it is set out in the Qur’an and Sunnah:

Amputation for theft: “The thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands in recompense for what they committed as a deterrent from Allah.” (Qur’an 5:38)

Child marriage:: “The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)” (Bukhari 7.62.88).

Marital rape:: “If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning” (Bukhari 4.54.460).

Wife beating:: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” (Qur’an 4:34)

This article notes that one cleric was reported as saying: “A man should not be questioned why he hit his wife because this is something between them.” That cleric was no “extremist”; he was quoting Muhammad, who said: “A man will not be asked as to why he beat his wife” (Abu Dawud 2142)

What will British authorities do when they finally realize that what they have been classifying as “extremist” is just ordinary, mainstream Islam? Surrender, probably.

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY CYRIL BELAUD: BR

“Sharia courts in the UK are run by extremists who back cutting off criminals’ hands, says Muslim scholar,” by Steve Doughty, Daily Mail, February 28, 2016:

Sharia courts administering Islamic justice in Britain are run by clerics who believe some offenders should have their hands chopped off, an investigation has found.

Muslim scholar Elham Manea said that some clerics also believe girls can be married at the age of 12 and described their prevailing attitude as ‘totalitarian’ and more backward than some parts of Pakistan.

The findings from the human rights specialist come amid continuing controversy over the role of sharia courts, which rule in family and inheritance disputes between Muslims who agree to be bound by the decisions. There are thought to be around 85 operating in Britain.

Last December, Home Secretary Theresa May set up an independent review into their role, amid fears that they discriminate against women.

Professor Manea, who is based at Zurich University, spent four years speaking to clerics at sharia courts in London and the Midlands. Her book on the project concludes that the courts represent ‘closed communities’.

Her findings, published by The Sunday Times, said that they increase ‘segregation, inequality and discrimination’ and can encourage ‘political instability and home-grown terrorism’.

The verdict was strongly disputed by the Muslim Council of Britain, which said it was committed to ensuring sharia courts treat parties with respect and fairness and that they apply ‘rules of natural justice’.

Professor Manea gave examples of incidents involving British sharia courts – which included that of a young woman forced to marry her cousin in Pakistan, who was subsequently raped on their wedding night. The woman appealed to a tribunal in Britain – which found that since she was married there could be no rape.

The professor quoted one cleric saying that ‘puberty is the right age’ for a girl to marry, and that 12 and 13-year-old girls are ‘more or less fully–fledged women’. Another was reported saying ‘a man should not be questioned why he hit his wife because this is something between them’.

Another said it was fair that in matters of inheritance a woman should get half that of a man. Professor Manea also found that a number of the clerics agreed with the idea that some offenders should have their hands chopped off as a form of ‘corporal punishment’….

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  1. mortimer says

    Mar 7, 2016 at 9:54 pm

    “Irreconcilable” is the word that best describes discriminatory Sharia.
    Sharia is medieval legal system unchanged since 1111 AD.
    Sharia is IRRECONCILABLE with equality.
    Sharia is IRRECONCILABLE with progress.
    Sharia is IRRECONCILABLE with the UNDHR.
    Sharia is IRRECONCILABLE with most countries’ human rights codes.
    Sharia is IRRECONCILABLE with pluralism.
    Sharia is IRRECONCILABLE with democracy.
    Sharia is IRRECONCILABLE with modernity.
    Sharia is IRRECONCILABLE with secularism.

    • Keys says

      Mar 8, 2016 at 3:04 pm

      @mortimer
      So, now in Britain, if a from-birth Muslim declares she/he is no longer Muslim and has adopted Buddhism as his/her new religion, and the Sharia court finds the defendant guilty and imposes the death penalty by beheading, will the British government be bound to allow it since they have given up jurisdiction?

      A house divided can not stand.

      • Annie says

        Mar 8, 2016 at 4:09 pm

        This article doesn’t state whether, since they believe in the Sharia, if they are actually allowed to carry out it’s sentences in Britain. We know they think it is right, but do we know if it is enacted?

        • Keys says

          Mar 8, 2016 at 8:52 pm

          @Annie “…do we know if it is enacted?”
          I don’t know. Maybe “they” don’t either.

          If “they” do allow Sharia sentences to be enacted, maybe those in power will allow beheadings to resume at the Tower of London after 100s of years.

  2. Ciudadano says

    Mar 7, 2016 at 10:54 pm

    Conspicuosly they don’t mention the word islam a single time. If you know mothing about islam and read that article you conclude the problem is just some fanatic judges from some remote place in Paquistan. It annoyng how media refuses to connect the dots and look at the big picture of islam.

  3. mortimer says

    Mar 7, 2016 at 11:32 pm

    Why didn’t British lawyers tell the British government about the headaches BEFORE they brought the nose of the Sharia camel into the tent?

    Some high court judge should tell the government that Sharia is not compatible with modern British society and be done with it?

    • Keith says

      Mar 8, 2016 at 2:45 am

      Why would they? It was only 2014 that the UK’s Solicitors Regulation Authority issued a guidance note to all solictors advising on how to write Sharia Compliant Wills. These courts have been operating legally since 1996, the anti Jihad sites have been warning about Sharia for how long now? and still in 2014 they managed to advise all solicitors on how to write wills that are Sharia compliant.
      So why would they worry about a bit of sexism or racism from Sharia compliant courts.

      • Keys says

        Mar 8, 2016 at 3:09 pm

        @Keith
        I asked this question to mortimer. What do you think?

        So, now in Britain, if a from-birth Muslim declares she/he is no longer Muslim and has adopted Buddhism as his/her new religion, and the Sharia court finds the defendant guilty and imposes the death penalty by beheading, will the British government be bound to allow it since they have given up jurisdiction?

  4. Godwin says

    Mar 7, 2016 at 11:58 pm

    UKnistan is going the Pakistani way. Thanks/but no thanks to its corrupt leaders.
    The Queen is sleeping well, but her cititzens are getting angrier by the day.

    • philip zhao says

      Mar 8, 2016 at 3:18 am

      Allah save the Queen !

  5. Westman says

    Mar 8, 2016 at 12:11 am

    If you’re a female Muslim you’re going to get screwed over, for certain, by more than one entity.

  6. Gary says

    Mar 8, 2016 at 2:04 am

    Oh great Sharia Law……

    Where if my fourteen year old forgets to attend prayer, he’s beheaded.

    Islam: The lie from the pit of Hell.

  7. Matthieu Baudin says

    Mar 8, 2016 at 2:14 am

    The new enlightened ruling circles of the U.K. years ago began embracing all manner of backwardness, including these Sharia Courts. I’m sure all those Captives of Islam, those stuck at home and shackled into forced compliance by traditional authoritarian extended families, are now thanking the British Authorities for leaving them to their fate and sealing their subjugation by pandering to old world Islamic authority.

  8. Charli Main says

    Mar 8, 2016 at 4:10 am

    No need to panic folks. The lunatics running the asylum in Brussels have just agreed to grant Turkey the right to visa free travel for its citizens in Europe.
    Before, every Muslim from Pakistan to Morocco discovered he was actually a Syrian and had the right to accept mother Merkel´s offer to live in Germany.
    Now half a BILLION Muslims will discover that they are actually Turks and have the right to visa free travel into Europe.
    PS. a part of the new ” deal” is also to grease Turkey´s membership of the European Union and 3 BILLION Euros to help ” control” the flow of ” refugees” into Greece.
    Sharia courts will become the norm in Europe and the non Muslims minorities will be subject to Islamic law.

    • DFD says

      Mar 8, 2016 at 4:35 pm

      To Charlie Main:

      Turkey will not become an EU member, most Balkan states, the Baltic states, and probably France will veto it. Greece for sure, 100%. Still Germany is the key. This year over 700 asylum centers burned or flooded. The first submachine gun attack a few days ago. France? Chirp..chirp… Britain? One asylum center burned – whoopie. Italy? Oh dear.

      It may sound strange or even idiotic, but I actually hope there will be more Muslims migrants and more upheaval, more atrocities from them. Here’s the reason: Germany before the war, which was as important for Germany as the Civil War was for the US. It practically formed or laid the foundation for modern Germany.

      Today’s Germans generally believe the war was about the reformation, Protestants v Catholics. Not wrong, but, it was as important or as secondary as the issue of slavery was for the US civil war. I’ll set the scene, and then you’ll know or have an idea why the German, as well as the EU, authorities are so anxious to cover up whatever they can. Because the parallels with today are eerie, though there were no Muslims then.

      Germany before the war. Everything looked rosy, nothing threatening in the north, the Vikings were fully assimilated, Friesland. To the south, no problem, there were mountains protecting, and there was a close relationship with the “Eastern Realm” (that’s the meaning of Ostereich/Austria). West and east, large rivers. So the German state-lets were OK, the towns and cities wielding ever more power, much to the dislike of the Princes, Earls and Barons. A Serf who managed to escape and live in a town or city for one year and one day became automatically a Burger, he was a free man. No Prince would be so stupid to go against a City, and these were usually allied, they had the money and the manpower. And neither the Burgers nor their elected Magistrates and Mayors would budge.

      Plenty of money from trade and crafts. Mink collars on the vests were common, the vests and breeches, velvet and velour, or even silk. Not the rich, the average. Taxi business (litter carrying) was booming, as were other activities, from Cathedral building, paintings/art work, gun making, food exporting, you name it. Germany sits at the triple cross roads, Balkans, western and eastern Europe. The world’s first annual book fair in Frankfurt generated lots of business too, et cetera est. Trouble with Islam? That was way south in the Balkans, across the mountains. What did they fear? Same as every body else, fire, black death and cholera. Apart from that, not a cloud on the horizon.

      Protestantism, reformation? Well, the pope held his frequent bonfires with heretics as special guests, ceasing their properties and raping their women – unless they recanted. Not exactly isolated incidents, but as long as you weren’t one ‘of them’… No problemo.

      Just like today, isn’t it? Even more than you think. The Germans didn’t like paying taxes to the emperor, that is to say the EU (or in the American way: Paying taxes to the crown. Though there was no ‘Hamburg tea party 🙂 , not yet). That made the emperor as anxious as today the EU. Problem was, how do you reign in on a people who are wealthy, influential and not in easy reach? Apart from being well armed, which they had to be, the Cities didn’t trust the Princes, they trusted in elections. The Princes didn’t trust the cities, they trusted in being ordained by God, errhh, the Pope. The Emperor was of course allied with the Pope, whom the Germans didn’t like to be a receiver of their precious Gold-Marks either. Would like to pay this guy 10% for his ‘spiritual leadership’?

      Luther? Side issue, a quarrel in the church, Protestants, Catholics etc, not good for the cash. Besides, Luther didn’t want to reform Christianity, he was cheesed off with Rome, the Vatican to be precise. He didn’t even challenge the Emperor, wisely so.

      Can you hear the hissing of the fuse? Oh, the saying ‘Los von Rom’ (away from Rome) goes back to those days. Anybody believing that the Germans are stary-eyed about Brussels/EU; wakey, wakey… They’d rather have their Deutsch Marks back. The Euro is ‘affectionately’ known as the ‘Teuro’, ‘teuer’ meaning expensive.

      Solution for those people: lots of Mayors and Magisters have a get together, and recommend the acceptance of Lutherism. In English: No more cash to the Vatican; Emperor: Shove off, not a Pfennig from us. The Germans had their tea party – you Americans are copycats 🙂

      Result, unhappy emperor and unhappy pope. Easy, the Germans were soft, no wars for long time, practically decadent due to good living, no warriors, a pushover. So, orders to the loyal Catholics, Princes and clergy, rise against those payment withholding, sorry, heretical Protestants! Orders to the loyal Aristocracy and their underlings, rise against those seditious Germans! Orders to the free Burgers: Defend yourselves – *and your cash* – against those bloody foreigners and their collaborators!

      That’s it in a tiny nutshell. When it was over, roughly half the German population dead by war, plus about three million by famine and plague. The emperor (EU) and the pope lost about half of Europe. The war wasn’t only fought in Germany.

      That’s why the EU hits the panic buttons, and so does Merkel & Co. Never mind the bull by the European press about the Germans wanting to dominate, and all that crap. The Germans don’t want to pay! They were better of without Brussels. They still operate the worlds second or third largest export business. They are economically as dependent on Portugal, Spain etc., as a freight train on an ox cart. Their view? F.. Europe and the EU! A bottomless pit for our money. Exception are the lefties who believe in a European Germany – whatever that contraption is supposed to be.

      And now, on top of that, Germans are being burnt again at the stakes, sorry, raped by bloody third world scum. Not even Germans of a different denomination – but aliens with the full support of Brussels (the emperor), the Vatican (again) and the emperor’s vassals – Merkel, SPD , Greens & Co. Names and fashion differs, but that’s about it. German point of view? They want my money – and my women! Ironically, the aristocracy’s place is now occupied by AntiFa…

      When I enquired, I was rather surprised about the frequent references to the horrors of the 30y war, appearing as scare stories. Women eating their children, graves dug up to eat the dead, snakes and rats were staple diets… etc. Yes, it’s scary, but what the scaremongers don’t realize is this: It also says in the minds, or backs of the minds, of the Germans: “Hey! We recovered from the inferno, and are now the most important nation in Europe.”

      It’ll take one rape or murder too many, or when they realize the real cost of those leeches – think in terms of ethnic cleansing at best, and massacres at worst. The German army is practising for that kind of war for years.

  9. Kepha says

    Mar 8, 2016 at 5:39 am

    This is what the UK gets for walking the extra mile to live down its heritage of racism and colonialism and by importing the Rousseauan myth of the “Noble Savage”. It’s the outworking of a progressive fallacy that seems to think the other culture doesn’t have a history and institutions until “we” get involved–and I regret to say that the USA also suffers from this disease, which is apparently killing the old colonial power.

    • Keys says

      Mar 8, 2016 at 3:18 pm

      They need to put “granny”, the Dowager Countess of Downton Abbey, in charge “over there”.

      “I knew this family was approaching disillusion, I wasn’t aware that illusion was already upon us.”

  10. sidney penny says

    Mar 8, 2016 at 6:26 am

    “The verdict was strongly disputed by the Muslim Council of Britain, which said it was committed to ensuring sharia courts treat parties with respect and fairness and that they apply ‘rules of natural justice’.”

    How can Sharia Court apply rules of natural justice?There is no such thing in Islam.

    The use of the word Court does not mean it is a Court.

  11. Angemon says

    Mar 8, 2016 at 6:41 am

    What’s the surprise? Every once in a while, and seemingly unbeknownst to the MSM, we get a video like this:

    • Marty says

      Mar 8, 2016 at 11:10 am

      A brilliant video.
      Completely accurate & essentially banned from us
      Westerners seeing.
      Save on one of the few websites that tells the truth about our
      upcoming conquest by mohammedan savages.

  12. Wiser Monkeys says

    Mar 8, 2016 at 7:23 am

    In 2003 and earlier in 2001, even the European Court of Human Rights “found that sharia was incompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy”.

    Views of UK Muslims on sharia:
    http://wisermonkeys.uk/muslimopinion.html#sharia

    Views of female UK sharia scholar:
    https://twitter.com/wisermonkeys/status/702911093400838144

    Overview of sharia generally:
    http://wisermonkeys.uk/islam.html#sharia

  13. Atheist7 says

    Mar 8, 2016 at 7:29 am

    Looks to me that regardless of what religion you are brought up in, Jew, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, whatever….. you take whatever comes from your Holy Books and then believe what you are told. Christians believe that salvation comes through Christ. Muslims believe that Muhammad was an incredibly cool dude. You all believe that your particular religion is the only true religion. You are indeed very intellectually obedient. How pathetic. Perhaps an alliance between Atheists and Christians is not the best way to stop Islamization.

    • Western Canadian says

      Mar 9, 2016 at 12:14 am

      you keep on leaving out the worst religion of them all, in your broad brush comments: Atheism, killed 5 times as many people in a single century, than islam has averaged for 14 centuries. Running second for the total murdered.

      • Atheist7 says

        Mar 9, 2016 at 6:29 am

        Sorry Western. I was just really upset when I watched the video and saw all the Muslims parroting back exactly what the Koran and Sharia Law told them to say. Just be glad that you are a follower of Christ and not a follower of Muhammad.

        • Western Canadian says

          Mar 9, 2016 at 5:37 pm

          ‘Kay, but though I study the Jewish?Christian books, I do not claim to be Christian. Not yet, anyhow. And, yeah, the actual behaviour is very hard to stomach.

  14. Jerry says

    Mar 8, 2016 at 8:40 am

    If you want to see into our future with muslims then look at Britain. Whole neighborhoods and towns have been supplanted by muslim enclaves. Child rape is epidemic because islam condones it and muslim morality is deficient. They have 85 sharia courts already in operation advancing islam’s legal system. Thousands of mosques dot the landscape, each one essentially a command post for islamic tyranny and conquest. The political left has turned against their own nation and good morals to appease islam’s fascist ideology. Their welfare is getting sucked dry to help the muslim hoard. Their prisons are swelling with more muslims than ever before at the expense of law and order. The threat of terrorism and social anxiety is increasing–thank you muslims. Britain’s educational system and politics is tainted with islam’s poisonous ideas, and brazen threats of conquest by young muslim men is commonplace. Of course the consequence of this lack leadership and cultural fortitude is the destruction of Britian’s nation and cultural identity. And still they continue to allow all manner of migrants through the door, including terrorists and criminals, which will only make things worse.
    The transition from British democracy and human rights to islam’s retarded ignorance and wickedness is nearing its end. It won’t be long now, just hand over the keys.

    There, now you know your kids’ future in America. Sleep well.

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