As the number of Sharia courts operating behind closed doors – and beyond the reach of British law – continues to grow apace, a new documentary has exposed what really happens during the shadowy proceedings.
Channel 4 documentary was granted access to Birmingham Central Mosque, so it is likely that those in charge sought to convey the best possible image, knowing that the footage and commentary would be broadcast. Nonetheless, the broadcast left viewers dumbfounded.
According to the Daily Mail, there are believed to be about 85 Sharia courts in the UK; the Express puts the number at 100. These courts are supposed to resolve family, marriage and financial disputes for Muslims; they are predictably is misogynistic, and consequently damaging to women, and by proxy to children.
Sharia-compliant women are subjugated and intimidated. While Muslim men need simply to tell their wives “I divorce you” three times to be free of her, the process for wives is quite different. Viewers watched Fatima go through the emotional trauma of pleading her case before the three Sharia court judges. The 33-year-old mother of four children had to plead her case and obtain “permission to divorce the drug dealer husband she says has emotionally abused her throughout their 14 year marriage.”
This troubling documentary depicts a bed of roses compared to other judgments that are being handed down by Britain’s Sharia courts. A couple of examples: a Sharia court handed down a sentence approving of honor killing, and another ordered a traumatized woman to return to her abusive rapist husband.
The silence from feminists is deafening.
“The moment a Muslim mother is forced to ask the permission of Islamic clerics in a BRITISH Sharia court to divorce her drug dealer husband,” by Natalie Corner, Daily Mail, March 2, 2017:
As the number of Sharia courts operating behind closed doors – and beyond the reach of British law – continues to grow apace, a new documentary has exposed what really happens during the shadowy proceedings.
There are believed to be 85 Sharia courts in the UK, and last night Channel 4’s Extremely British Muslims aired footage captured inside Birmingham’s Central Mosque as a council dispensed its strict religious form of justice.
Viewers witnessed the struggle of mother-of-four Fatima, 33, as she sought permission to divorce the drug dealer husband she says has emotionally abused her throughout their 14 year marriage.
The Islamic court, which seeks to provide Muslims with resolutions to financial, familial and marital disputes according to the principles of their faith, granted Fatima’s request.
But that she was forced to plead her case at all is in stark contrast to the divorce process for Muslim men, who need only tell their spouse ‘I divorce you’ three times in order to free themselves of a marriage.
Under Islamic law, marriage is a legal bond and social contract between a man and a woman, but the marriages are not binding under UK law.
On Extremely British Muslims, Fatima had to explain exactly why she no longer wants to be with her other half to the three judges, one of whom was the only female Sharia Court judge in the country, Dr Amra Bone.
Fatima wished to be granted a divorce, and claimed she has been a victim of emotional abuse.
‘I’ve been on my own with the children, [with] no support from him and there was emotional abuse,’ she said.
She refused to take him back even after Dr Bone said that her husband was willing to change…..
‘There’s no love or trust and I fear him. I am 100 percent [convinced], there is no looking back’ she explained.
While she waited for an answer she explained that after a couple of months of marriage her husband ‘started to show his true colours’ and things soon spiralled ‘out of control’.
Fatima had gone against her parents’ wishes when she first married him and admitted she regrets rushing into the marriage.
The presiding judge Dr Amra Bone informed Fatima that her marriage has been dissolved and reflected on Fatima’s case.
‘This is a marriage of choice [as opposed to an arranged marriage]. The wife is discovering afterwards, he has been on drugs.
‘We think it’s very important for the family to play a role in finding out what the boy is like before anything happens, and in cases where they’ve already fallen in love it is in fact too late.’
Dave Flang says
Sharia for Dummies by Nonie Darwish a Muslim
carol says
The judge sounds happy and the kuffar have egg on their faces:
“‘This is a marriage of choice [as opposed to an arranged marriage]. The wife is discovering afterwards, he has been on drugs…We think it’s very important for the family to play a role in finding out what the boy is like before anything happens, and in cases where they’ve already fallen in love it is in fact too late.”
Surely this example proves that personal love and Valentine’s Day are distractions from proper form? Without them there would surely be all the more love left over for Mohammed and his puppet Allah.
Islamists, multiculturalists are to blame not feminists says
“The silence from feminists is deafening” this is not true. Anne-Marie Waters has been vocal against sharia courts as has Maryam Namazie’s One Law For All UK which helped organise action from 300 women abused by sharia courts in Britain. They have campaigned against sharia courts as hard as they can. Both are feminists. So please do not turn the blame from the real villains: the Islamists and their globalist sympathisers.
Adrianne Smyth says
Anne Marie Waters is a heroine for our times
Angemon says
What’s that? No, seriously, what’s that? “Extremely British muslims”? Sounds like a setup for an SNL parody sketch or something.
Romans says
More like a “Monty Python” comedy sketch title, since Python is British
Walter Sieruk says
What is known as the Stealth jihad otherwise called the Muslim method of Islamic Gradualism. In contrast to the way of the violent jihad or also called the militant jihad .This non-violent form of the jihad for Islam is a very sly, insidious, subtle and deceptive way of working for the advancement of Islam. Which will then also includes ,as seen above,the brutal and oppressive misogyny of Islam.
This Muslim scheme for achieving the goal of the Islamic agenda is as, many times, as subtly effective as it is demonically clever. Furthermore, this Islamic gradualism, in some ways, is very similar to the instruction printed in the book entitled THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads “At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to opposes you”
salim says
There is no stealth involved and no jihad. The most advanced and powerful have invited the most backward to take over. Sadly, it is as simple as that!
Just read the headlines page on JW and you can see that Muslims are NOT doing anything intelligent … but the Westerners are doing what appears to be most stupid things to facilitate the take over. Such actions are too stupid to be taken by any humans — It is all planned. Very well planned.
Walter Sieruk says
Much of the sly insidious yet subtle stealth jihad is based on the Islamic dogma called Taqiyya .This is the Islamic doctrine the deception is a good thing to do as long as it’s done for the advancement of Islam. In strong contrast to this practice of Taqiyya is the teachings found in the Bible . For the Bible informs its readers in Proverbs 11:18. “The wicked worketh a deceitful work…” Likewise, the very next chapter[12] of the same book of Proverbs it reads in verse 5 “The counsels of the wicked are deceit .” Also further on verse 20 it instructs “Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil…” [K.J.V.]
Infidel Lass says
If the marriage is not binding under British Law, then no need for this- they aren’t married. If the marriage is binding under British Law, then they get a divorce accordingly, in front of a British law judge. End of story. Either way around, Sharia courts are illegal.
Veka Fitzfrancis says
She’s clearly doing this so she isn’t murdered by her ex or family for bringing dishonor onto their names.
jayell says
Shame no-one’s going to bring in a law of Dishonourng the United Kingdom, with a mandatory death penalty, You’d hardly need to be much of a ‘Perry Mason’ in court to convict a load of muslims without to much trouble, and we could be shot of most of them in no time!
Charli Main says
Sharia May is probably thrilled at all the splendid work that her Sharia approved courts are doing for all those ” extremely British ” Muslim women.
billybob says
I once watched a documentary about a sad case where a woman was being abused by her deadbeat husband who wasn’t even supporting her. As a conseque, she had work work as well as raise her children and lived in poverty. She went to the Sharia court and applied for a divorce. The judge chided her for not being a good wife and denied her petition. Thus the premise of the documentary that Sharia courts are oppressive to women was upheld.
However, the obvious question was – why did the woman feel herself obligated to obey the Sharia court, which held no legal power whatsoever to deny her rights and force her to remain in an abusive situation? The woman explained in the documentary, that if she defied the court and left her husband she would be ostracized by her community.
Well there you go – that is the real problem, not the Sharia courts. Why should this woman care what her community thinks? It is her life. The “community” would not help carry her burden. That she must face alone. I considered if I ever found myself in such a situation, I would flee that community, and the religion that has revealed its moral bankruptcy, and go as far away as I could and start a new life.
So I contend the problem is not the voluntary Sharia courts. That is only a strawman. It is also unlikely we could stop clandestine Sharia courts from popping up if they were ever banned. It must be remembered these courts have no legal powers whatsoever to enforce their decisions. If someone is stupid enough to accept an unjust decision from them they are the author of their own misfortune.
In the end, what is a Sharia court? It is no different than the counselling one might receive from the pastor at one’s church, which may be good, bad, or indifferent. Of course it is going to be based on the Quran, so the outcome is predictable in the case of women who generally have half the rights of a man. But a church pastor can be quite abusive too. I recall a church who with the parent’s permission kidnapped their child who had decided he was gay and beat him to death in the end in an attempt at behaviour modification.
In all the above I am not defending Sharia courts, but rather, turning the focus to where it belongs, to the backward and primitive beliefs of those who follow Islam. I contend that if they are living in the West, much much more must be done to ensure they integrate into our culture. Immigrants should be admitted only on the condition they must give up their Islamic religion.
Charli Main says
“In all the above I am not defending Sharia courts, but rather, turning the focus to where it belongs, to the backward and primitive beliefs of those who follow Islam”
Brilliantly stated point. I have long argued that the problem IN NOT ISLAM BUT THE MORONS WHO CONTINUE TO BELIEVE IN AND PRACTICE ITS TENETS.
No Muslims—NO ISLAM.
Joe Bowers says
NO Billybob your completely wrong. Its the British people and government for ever allowing Sharia law to supersede the real justice that the British courts and legal system should never have relinquished. It was the responsibility of the UK to make sure those on her soil that are vulnerable are protected. It was the UK that failed her. It’s time you stopped swallowing this weak kneed politically correct bullshit and do what is right.
Dacritic says
Who is that monster covering itself up like that?
Joe Bowers says
WtF is wrong with you Brits… How can you allow this to happen. Is this really what the proud culturally rich and time honored people do now? After battling impossible odds and brutal attacks that would have broken most people during WW2 is this what stands for British courage in the face of adversity now? That you as noble society of a long proud lineage would just lay down as your enemy simply walked over you. You shame those that previously struggled so bravely without ever considering surrender, with unflinching resolve to protect your way of life. If your truly still that proud United Kingdom of which honor and righteousness was it’s currency of the realm then it’s time to remember that and stand.
“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”