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Theresa May’s Sharia courts review branded a whitewash

Jul 10, 2016 9:55 am By Robert Spencer

“They claim that by appointing an Islamic scholar as chair and placing two imams in advisory roles, the panel’s ability to make an impartial assessment of how religious arbitration is used to the detriment of women’s rights will be seriously compromised.” Of that there can be no doubt. That a politician so severely compromised and indefatigably intent upon appeasing Islamic supremacist interests as Theresa May would be the most likely next Prime Minister of Great Britain demonstrates how far Britain has fallen, and how desperately needed is a sweeping-out of its political elites.

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“Sharia courts review branded a ‘whitewash’ over appointment ‘bias’ concerns,” by Hannah Summers, Independent, July 9, 2016:

Theresa May’s review of sharia courts has been branded a “whitewash” before it has even begun, with more than 200 individuals and human rights groups signing an open letter urging her to dismantle the panel chosen to oversee the inquiry.

They claim that by appointing an Islamic scholar as chair and placing two imams in advisory roles, the panel’s ability to make an impartial assessment of how religious arbitration is used to the detriment of women’s rights will be seriously compromised.

Signatories include Gita Sahgal, the director of Centre for Secular Space and a former head of Amnesty International’s gender unit, the playwright Julia Pascal and the Iranian-born human rights activist, Maryam Namazie.

Namazie’s involvement is a strike against this initiative, but the bias of May’s review nonetheless seems obvious.

They say the “narrow remit” of the review, which starts collecting evidence this month, has a misplaced focus on seeking out “best practice” among sharia councils rather than questioning their very existence.

While there are three legal experts on the panel, critics claim the role of chair should have be given to a judge rather than a theologian and that female advisors or those that advocate for them should be included….

Sharia councils have no enforcement powers and operate on a voluntary basis with consent of both parties. Sharia law does not supersede UK law. Either party, if dissatisfied should be able to seek redress in the UK courts. However some women who attend sharia councils are not aware of their rights or are cowed by community or religious pressures.

The review, announced in May as part of the Government’s counter-extremism strategy and due to be completed by 2017, is to be chaired by Mona Siddiqui, a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Edinburgh and a regular presenter of the Thought for the Day slot on Radio 4’s Today programme. Family lawyer Anne-Marie Hutchinson, barrister Sam Momtaz, and retired high court judge, Sir Mark Hedley will also sit on the panel.

The Home Office said the panel will examine the ways in which sharia may be “misused or exploited” following concerns that some sharia councils were working in a discriminatory fashion by seeking to legitimise forced marriage and issuing divorces to women that were “unfair and contrary to the teachings of Islam”….

That’s based on the fantasy Islam that May and her cohorts imagine exists and upon which they are staking Britain’s future. Not the real thing.

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  1. mortimer says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 10:08 am

    The fox was placed in charge of the henhouse.

    I do not blame the fox.

    • Spot On says

      Jul 12, 2016 at 9:49 am

      I’m sure Cameron helped the Fox to get in.

  2. mortimer says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 10:09 am

    How about putting WOMAN in charge of inspecting Sharia courts!

    • Tommy says

      Jul 10, 2016 at 4:43 pm

      …or a gay man.

      • Guest says

        Jul 10, 2016 at 7:54 pm

        They’d be too worried about being culturally sensitive, in a weird ‘solidarity’ with the ‘oppressed’ muslims. Read gay websites after Orlando: many apologists denying it had anything to do with islam!

  3. linnte says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 10:10 am

    The Brits who voted “BREXIT” will not vote for this woman. They see through her schemes!

    • Lizzy says

      Jul 10, 2016 at 10:35 am

      The Brits who voted Brexit do not get the opportunity to vote for T May unless they are paid-up members of the Conservative party and members for three months or more.

      It is as leader of the Conservative party that she stands and not a Leave or Remain issue as far as the party is concerned.

      • linnte says

        Jul 10, 2016 at 4:05 pm

        So when voting in a prime minister, the whole of England has no say? I don’t understand. I thought it was like an American Presidential election when voting for a President, a nationwide popular vote is collected.

        • Guest says

          Jul 10, 2016 at 7:56 pm

          Tories are currently in power (since last election). As their leader has stepped down (Cameron) the party gets to replace him with their new choice of leader. Only at the next general election will the public get to vote.

        • linnte says

          Jul 10, 2016 at 10:19 pm

          Oh I understand now. Makes sense. Thanks Guest. For some reason I assumed (and that does make an ass out if me?) there would be a general election. Still feeling very idiotic when replying to posts here, but I will persevere to make an ass out of myself until I get it right! Ha!

        • Christopher471 says

          Jul 10, 2016 at 9:24 pm

          Like when Kennedy was assasinted, Johnson took over. He wasn’t in.

        • Christopher471 says

          Jul 10, 2016 at 9:25 pm

          assassinated and ‘voted in’ – sorry.

      • GrahamTurner says

        Jul 12, 2016 at 6:30 am

        please remember that Theresa May is an enemy of free speech (banning Robert Spencer from the UK) and believes that Islam is a religion of peace. The madness continues!

    • Peter Smith says

      Jul 11, 2016 at 3:30 pm

      That’s why Leadsom was levered out – only that was probably the stitch-up from the neginning. Leadsome was only there until Gove etc. were out

      • Mirren10 says

        Jul 11, 2016 at 5:25 pm

        Yep. I reckon she was stitched up like a kipper.

  4. Mong says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 10:13 am

    Great stuff if you think like a brick

  5. severyn adams says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 10:19 am

    Move to a Muslim country you old prune if you don’t liken the way Christian laws are run here..

  6. jayell says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 10:22 am

    Theresa May’s track record in the Home Office has been pretty abysmal, and (to quote a UK newpaper) whilst nailing her colours (a white flag?) to the ‘Remain’ mast in our recent little referendum, she ‘hid behind the sofa’ as the fireworks went on, and now strides onto centre stage proclaiming herself to be ‘our new, fearless strong leader’ to take the UK out of the Fourth Reich only because almost everyone else who was up for the part either got stabbed in the back, sat on, or otherwise bottled out. Plus the fact that she apparently has a reputation for being a ‘difficult ****’, which must be good. Or so the papers seem to be telling us now. I can just see all the imams plus their odious Sharia courtsrunning underground for cover now! (Not!). The only other main (female) contender is an unknown who’s hardy been in the business five minutes, has been known to be a bit economical with the truth when pushing herself forward, and made the fact that she is a mother a main plank of her election manifesto (well, that could put my cat in the running as well!). The matter is now in the hands of the UK’s Conservative Party membership to choose the next Leader of the Nation, so it seems like the UK has a lot to look forward to. How does one become an American citizen?

    • linnte says

      Jul 10, 2016 at 10:34 am

      Jayell, you put on a Burqua or turban and simply march off a plane claiming to be a refugee. And you will get free subsistence benefits for as long as you need them. ?

      • Marty says

        Jul 11, 2016 at 11:11 am

        It’s much easier than that in the UK.
        One, I think, non muslim gentleman has boasted of killing up to 400 fellow
        Africans with knives, swords & concrete blocks.
        He cannot be deported for trial, as, shock horror, his African homeland has
        the death penalty. Thanks to the Blairs, he has a nice home paid for by us
        taxpayers & a steady income from us.
        Naturally, he doesn’t work.
        Ain’t “Human Rights” grand !
        That’s why the scum of the earth are risking their lives & paying fortunes to get
        into the UK illegally.
        Genuine refugees would happily stay in France,

    • Michael Laudahn says

      Jul 10, 2016 at 10:53 am

      Having to decide between May/Leadsom (Tories) and Corbyn (Labour) is like being stuck between a rock and a hard place. At the same time, you have personalities like Nigel Farage, Paul Golding, Nick Griffin, Paul Weston and more. But they have apparently no chance to reach positions of influence due to your first-past-the-post voting system.

      • JIMJFOX says

        Jul 10, 2016 at 3:02 pm

        Exactly so. Good catch, man!

    • Bob says

      Jul 11, 2016 at 6:36 am

      May will certainly be no “Maggie Thatcher”!!

  7. utis says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 10:35 am

    Wait till muslims demand criminal trials by Sharia court only, and lawsuits with non-muslims only in muslim courts. Then wait for non-muslims to be dragged into Sharia courts for Sharia violations. Britain is waist-deep in this muck. It needs a complete replacement of its “elite” before its head goes under. Is the DNA of the people who forced the Magna Carta up the king’s nose completely vanished?

    • utis says

      Jul 10, 2016 at 12:36 pm

      Update: Damn! I was just checking creepingsharia.wordpress.com. What i wrote above is extremely close to happening in Nigeria.

    • Karen says

      Jul 10, 2016 at 1:06 pm

      Sharia for criminal cases…..yes, exactly, that is the next step in the plan.

    • Christopher471 says

      Jul 10, 2016 at 9:58 pm

      It happened a few days ago. An Imam was found guilty of rape yet was given a short suspended sentence. Oh, and guess what. The Judge was a moslem.

  8. Michael Laudahn says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 10:46 am

    You may not get your day in court against her, but you may still be in a position to beat her. Have you made new travel plans already?

  9. Angemon says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 10:47 am

    While there are three legal experts on the panel, critics claim the role of chair should have be given to a judge rather than a theologian

    Which, well, it should. For reasons I expect are obvious to anyone with a working brain.

  10. ECAW says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 11:59 am

    “Asked why there wasn’t a woman from the Muslim community advising the panel, Ms Siddiqui said women had been approached but were reluctant to come forward”.

    Who would have imagined?

    • Karen says

      Jul 10, 2016 at 1:12 pm

      And these would be the same women who would be so bullied by their family, imams, and religious obligations and loyalties that they would never object to the outcomes handed to them by one of these councils. So, even though the results “are not legally binding”, Islamic peer pressure would ensure that the outcome supersedes UK law.

      • Kay says

        Jul 11, 2016 at 4:01 am

        Of course. That’s the way it is just with an abusive spouse– leaving off a whole abusive community and system.

        • Karen says

          Jul 11, 2016 at 2:55 pm

          Exactly!

  11. Karen says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 1:20 pm

    So the scope of the review is “best practice” versus “questioning their very existence”?

    Well then why bother? The fix is in, and Ms. May has decided already what the outcome will be; a short list of improvements for show, and not much more.

    If the councils cannot stand up to a completely outside review process, without built in bias and Islamic cheerleaders, then something is very wrong. Hopefully the outcry against this review panel will get louder and louder.

  12. billybob says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 2:19 pm

    They don’t need a “Sharia courts review”. All they need is a review of Sharia law by someone like Robert Spencer. He would be able to produce an accurate report in short order that would show that Sharia Law cannot possibly produce an equitable outcome comparable with what would be received in British family courts. Look at the laws themselves – no need to look at their implementation, which at best can only be a reflection of the laws.

  13. ECAW says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 2:54 pm

    Giving women an even break would certainly constitute a misuse of sharia.

    The panel might do well to consider judgments the European Court of Human Rights and the House of Lords have already made about sharia:

    http://www.shariawatch.org.uk/content/echr-judgement-relating-sharia-law-2003

    • Kay says

      Jul 11, 2016 at 4:04 am

      Wow. They already have it. Why even do something else?

      • linnte says

        Jul 11, 2016 at 5:12 am

        I just read this Sharia Watch article and am astonished! Why is this May woman even screwing around with the Shari’a issue, unless it is to further the cause of Islam. INSANITY!

        • DFD says

          Jul 11, 2016 at 7:49 am

          Linnte says: “….Why is this May woman even screwing around with the Shari’a issue…”

          Same reason why Hillary wants to permit and *accept*, if not promote, sharia in the US. One is voters, the other one is… errrr…. umhhh…, you know, you can count it. Everybody wants it, now what could it be?

  14. wallace says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 4:05 pm

    “Never will succeed such a nation as makes a woman their ruler” he says….are you there Tessie?

  15. Mirren10 says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 5:31 pm

    ”They claim that by appointing an Islamic scholar as chair and placing two imams in advisory roles, the panel’s ability to make an impartial assessment of how religious arbitration is used to the detriment of women’s rights will be seriously compromised.”

    Fox, hen house.

    Anyway, this is just more bs from the may bitch. If she **really** wanted an ‘independent inquiry’ she would have gone about it a whole lot differently. How I loathe, hate, and despise her and all her ilk.

    • Karen says

      Jul 11, 2016 at 3:19 pm

      A UK peer by the name of Baroness Cox started this review, if I’m not mistaken. She speaks rather boldly about Sharia. Referring to Islamic divorce practices that favor men, the “chastisement” of women, and polygamy, she says:

      “There are aspects of Sharia that are unacceptable.”

      Yes, to say the least!! A voice in the wilderness, so far.

  16. Guest says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 6:12 pm

    ‘Women’s Rights” will probably be fully regarded by the panel. It’s just that islamic women’s rights are very limited. That’s where the German word ‘Gleichberechtigung’ ie. equal rights is much clearer about western values.

  17. avi15 says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    She’s terrified of offending Muslims. She is under the mistaken impression that if we are nice to them, they will be nice back.

  18. Fatts says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 11:14 pm

    As I said in a previous post tonight, Britain is well on it’s way to submission to islam and sharia.

    This old bag May is exactly the right person to accelerate the process, should become Prime Minister.

    National suicide is a pathetic thing to witness.

  19. Diana says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 11:39 pm

    Actually I do think that the panel will produce a few examples of tribunal judgments that contradict Islam. A Muslim woman who has passed puberty cannot be forced into marriage. A Muslim woman who pleads that her husband has broken her arm must be granted a divorce on request. If these rules are being broken, they will probably trot the out as evidence that Islam, properly practised, is no threat to us.

    What it won’t be very likely to tell us is about all those times when the sharia judgment contradicts British law or causes “harm” to the community (in ways that British law never even thought about forbidding). You know, when it ratifies polygamy or gives custody of children to violent fathers or advises a husband to beat his wife or issues a fatwa to enter a private home to flog a drunk.

    Mrs May was stupid to assume they would betray these practices in a public report. So stupid, in fact, that I wonder if she has a plan to entrap them all? Just hoping …

  20. citycat says

    Jul 11, 2016 at 12:22 am

    She has no child.
    It was a woman that told me this-
    “a girl is a girl and becomes a woman when she has a child”
    just saying.

    • Mirren10 says

      Jul 11, 2016 at 9:19 am

      What rubbish.

      There are *millions* of women who are childless, either through choice, or **through no fault of their own.** Does that make them all ‘girls’ in the pejorative sense this woman clearly meant ?

      My comment is not to defend May, whom I thoroughly despise, but to point out the pernicious nonsense of this woman’s remark to you.

  21. stubb says

    Jul 11, 2016 at 1:33 am

    Immediately after the Charlie Hebdo murders, Theresa May was on every media source in the UK babbling that the attack had absolutely nothing to do with Islam and absolutely nothing to do with what was taught in the Koran. I haven’t had any use for her since. She’s an idiot, a traitor, or both.

  22. ECAW says

    Jul 11, 2016 at 7:25 am

    Bad, bad news:

    http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/07/andrea-leadsom-drops-leadership-race/

    • linnte says

      Jul 11, 2016 at 1:23 pm

      Oh NO! They must have threatened her and her family. She was so excited to be in the potential. Sad!

      • ECAW says

        Jul 11, 2016 at 1:32 pm

        I must admit I had the same evil thought.

        Nice little family you got here Andrea, Be a shame if anything were to happen to them…”

        • linnte says

          Jul 11, 2016 at 1:48 pm

          It’s like the whole world is run by the Mafia. That Sadiq Khan needs to go away, because for sure his goal is being PM. Lord HELP Britain/England!

  23. Judi says

    Jul 11, 2016 at 7:50 am

    Just announced. Theresa May has seen off her rival Andrea Ledsom and is now the officially designated Prime Minister of (not so Great) Britain!

  24. Judi says

    Jul 11, 2016 at 7:51 am

    Just announced. Theresa May has seen off her rival Andrea Ledsom and is now the officially designated Prime Minister of (not so Great) Britain!.

    • Paul says

      Jul 11, 2016 at 9:09 am

      So, the ideal person and preferred candidate of the globalists is
      now in power. Just mere coincidence. Move along, nothing to see
      here now.

  25. ECAW says

    Jul 11, 2016 at 8:23 am

    There was a young lady called May
    Who one day was heard to say
    “I’ll whitewash Sharia
    if it helps my career.
    You’re grandkids will just have to pay.”

  26. Paul says

    Jul 11, 2016 at 9:04 am

    Now she’s set to be our PM – just awesome! Things just keep
    getting better and better.

    • Mirren10 says

      Jul 11, 2016 at 9:21 am

      Only until the next General Election. I shall vote UKIP, or LibertyGB if they field a candidate in my area. Lan Astaslem !

      • ECAW says

        Jul 11, 2016 at 9:28 am

        Have you thought of standing yourself Mirren10?. I would vote for you..

        • Mirren10 says

          Jul 11, 2016 at 5:23 pm

          🙂

          Lord no !! Why don’t *you* stand ? I’d vote for you.

        • ECAW says

          Jul 12, 2016 at 2:52 am

          I’ll think about it when my parole comes up 🙂

      • Paul says

        Jul 11, 2016 at 9:48 am

        Of course, now we are in the horrible position of hoping that
        things get much worse (which they most likely will anyway), otherwise
        we’ll sleepwalk our way into total dhimmitude without any of the
        above candidates gaining the traction they deserve.

  27. Mark A says

    Jul 11, 2016 at 11:52 am

    Sharia courts have no place in western societies.

    If Theresa May is prepared to allow, or even tolerate, sharia courts in the UK she should not be Prime Minister.

  28. Kay says

    Jul 11, 2016 at 3:32 pm

    https://pamelageller.com/2016/07/sharia-enforcer-theresa-may-to-be-new-uk-prime-minister.html/

  29. Ross Skene says

    Jul 12, 2016 at 11:52 pm

    England is soon to get their version of Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister. The right wing, world wide, must get serious. Putting left wingers in charge of right wing parties is suicidal, politically speaking. Turnbull, in Australia’s recent election, lost about 15 seats. And they are still counting. We need a strong right wing.

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