Almost two-thirds of Muslim wives in Britain were married in Nikah ceremonies which are not legally binding, leaving them unprotected by family courts.
Among these marriages are forced marriages, child marriages and polygamous marriages. Meanwhile, it was discovered that a “website that helps Muslim men find ‘second wives’ in Britain has more than 100,000 users registered.”
The UK has essentially descended into a two-tier legal system: one for Muslims and one for everyone else. Even the victims of the Muslim rape gangs were told to “shut up for the good of diversity” — a message that was re-tweeted by Labor MP Naz Shah.
Women are the most often targeted victims of abuse that is justified under Sharia, but to defend human rights in the face of such victimization — whether against Muslim or non-Muslim women — earns one the label of “Islamophobe,” in the midst of fierce campaigns to shut people up “for the good of diversity.”
“Six in Ten Muslim Marriages in Britain Not Legally Binding, Women Forced into Polygamous Relationships”, by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, November 21, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
An investigation suggests almost two-thirds of Muslim wives in Britain were married in Nikah ceremonies which are not legally binding, leaving them unprotected by family courts.
The survey of 923 women, conducted by 20 Muslim female community researchers for public broadcaster Channel 4, also found that over a tenth of Muslim wives are in polygamous relationships, with 37 per cent of them admitting they were forced into their arrangements unwillingly.
One woman who did not even realise her marriage was polygamous told the programme — The Truth About Muslim Marriage — that her husband had repeatedly put off following the Nikah ceremony with a civil marriage, which would have given her a number of important legal protections with respect to her children and the division of assets.
She eventually “found out that he had been married to another woman for 13 years before he met her and had another wife as well. When she refused to carry on in a polygamous marriage, she was unable to get a divorce as she had only had a Nikah. She had to sell her house and most of her assets and ended up homeless and had a mental breakdown.”
The lack of protection is clearly a matter of concern for most Muslim women in Britain, with some 78 per cent of those interviewed saying they would prefer their marriages to have legal standing.
However, two-thirds said that they did not plan on having a civil marriage to supplement their Nikah ceremony, suggesting pressure from husbands, family members, or the wider Muslim community.
A surprising 28 per cent did not even realise their Nikah marriages “did not give them the same rights and protections as a legally-recognised marriage”, lending weight to earlier investigations which have found that Pakistani-origin women — who comprise a very significant section of British Muslim women — are “shockingly badly integrated“, with poor English-language abilities and a weak grasp of their rights and responsibilities…..
mortimer says
Isn’t Islam appalling. And not a single British Feminist is speaking out! That is evidence that they are not Feminists at all, but neo-Marxists in disguise.
They are only concerned with Gleichschaltung (the implementation of conformity).
Conformity of thought is the only thing that seems to be important in UK today, not critical thought, not creative solutions, not facts, not empirical evidence.
The UK is run by zombie cult of secular, post-modern, neo-Marxists who haven’t a clue about what they are doing, but are filled with fiery intensity.
Goutam says
Universal characteristics of pseudo-liberal, islam pandering, armchair intelligentsia:
quote out of context
make mountain out of a molehill
distort facts, misrepresent to the public
speak half-truth
pass of blatant lies in the name of freedom-of-speech
provide cover fire for Jihadi cutthroats
Continuously denigrate, belittle, ridicule, demonise the host civilisation
scream the loudest, even threaten law-abiding citizens to surrender to their blackmailing
Leftist parasites are following this familiar template in every country they have infiltrated.
Anne Smith says
Actually UK is run by MP’s led by a very stupid woman, Teresa May, who has little idea of the real world and has always kept her head down, has a bunker mentality and has done absolutely nothing for the country in all her years in parliament.
Under her ineffective and vacuous term as Home Secretary the immigration went up in leaps and bounds (she blamed the EU rules and said her hands were tied) and immigrant rapists and murderers were not deported( well, just a single one after a six year battle!) and the number of Sharia Courts quadrupled.
No wonder she is known as Sharia May.
gravenimage says
And yet, things would be *even worse* under Labour’s appalling Islamophilic Jeremy Corbyn. I wish David Cameron had remained as PM–despite his being so pathetic, he was better than what Britons have now.
A lot of places in the West are in trouble, but I really fear for Britain at this point.
dumbledoresarmy says
*The* book to read, on Muslim women in the UK, is Rosemary Sookhdeo’s meticulous study – originally undertaken as formal academic research toward a degree, then published as a book entitled “Secrets Behind the Burka”. It confirms everything in the article currently under discussion.
gravenimage says
Yes–very important book.
Eur says
It’s time to start talking clearly about these issues. Feminists must denounce these atrocious acts against the rights of women, laws must act to protect children, all children have the right to childhood … and that in Islam does not exist especially if you are a girl. This is a full-fledged colonization, this is not culture, they come to put on the veil and eliminate human rights. You have to decide … human rights or sharia.
Michael Copeland says
It is important to the muslim man NOT to register the muslim marriage with the civil authority.
This is because, if he has children, the state (dishonestly) treats her as a “single mum”, entitled to housing, welfare, child benefits, and so on.
Thus is the jizya taken from the filthy kuffar, in compliance with Sharia.
gravenimage says
Yes–important points. This allows Muslim men to practice polygamy and collect Jizya (welfare) from the “filthy Infidels”.
It also allows Muslim men to marry children without official detection.
God, I hate Islam.
Robert_k says
Well, I guess for Britain the Jews (were a nuisance during World War II and) in Palestine, whereas the Muslims are o.k. Ask Prince Charles. So let’s accommodate them by accepting polygamous relationships. It looks like a zero-sum game – either Judeo-Christian ethics or Sharia.
harbidoll says
all the better to demographically destroy you my dear!
David says
Muslim men do not regard our laws as valid. So what if he spawns ten jihadists of a multiplicity of wives; he can divorce any of them with a few words, and, besides, the kuffir taxpayer is on the hook for them all anyway. How the west get into this mess?
Michael Copeland says
How did the West get into this mess?
Socialism.
gravenimage says
We never should have let Muslims flood into the West in the first place.
Peter Buckley says
All that’s happening is the so-called “fastest-growing religion” is ghettoizing itself and producing poorly-educated and jobless children. Apparently, muslims believe this will guarantee them “victory”.
“The survey found that 89% of respondents did not want to be in a polygamous relationship. Just over one in ten of those questioned were in a polygamous relationship. And more than a third of those (37%) had not agreed to it.”
Shocker: Muslim women are victims of Islam. No kidding.
These will be women who live in the “muslim community” in the UK i.e. they live in rows of terraced houses, in working-class towns and cities, don’t work, have little or no education, and can’t speak the lingo.
Meanwhile, I was very interested to read an article by Saira Khan, a “middle-class muslim” and UK’s head of “Prevent Strategy”.
“I’m not raising my children as Muslims, I’m raising them as good human beings. It’s not my right to choose a religion for them. The emphasis is on being kind, caring and tolerant and to have friends from all walks of life. My son has started questioning how the world was created. He says, ‘I believe in dinosaurs, Mummy.’ I say, ‘You can believe whatever you want to believe.’ My childhood was very different – I was always told what to think.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-5085119/Saira-Khan-life-easier-stayed-quiet.html
I suspect that tens, probably thousands of British muslim women will be doing the same………
Peter Buckley says
I meant of course “tens, probably hundreds of thousands of British women………….”
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, this is not how most Muslims in Britain are raising their children…
Learning islam says
Does Islam respect a woman’s purpose on earth.
If a Muslim man beats his wife to death he can still have sex with her up to six hours after death.
We have got to admire their resourcefulness.
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Islamic sick logic:
• muslims believe, camel urine is better than women.
• Muhammad’s solution to sickness was drinking camel urine .Arab muslims drink and wash their faces. Many muslim women use it to wash their hair, to make it longer, and to make it lighter and more lustrous.
• Girls urine is dirtier than boys
• Google
Camel Urine Consumption In Morocco – u tube
Published on 17 Oct 2016
ARCHIVAL]
Moroccan Oncologists Blast Camel-Urine Cancer Treatment Project: Urine Is Urine
Following a Moroccan TV report on the use of camel urine as a cure for cancer, Moroccan oncologist Dr. Tashjin Said rejected the claims, saying that “camel urine is urine” and not meant for human consumption. A camel farmer interviewed in the report, which aired on February 6, recommended drinking up to a liter of camel urine to fight cancer and other abdominal diseases. Dr. Said Bencheqroun, Head of the Society for Support of Children with Cancer, also rejected the claims as ”
Camel Urine contains Hippuric Acid. Hippuric Acid is a carboxylic acid found in the urine of horses and other herbivores. High concentrations of this acid can indicate a toluene intoxification. Toluene intoxification = defective brain which means that your culture is extremely good at beheading everyone, stabbing kafirs, dynamiting humans, preaching hatred-killing inside the mosques and thighing babies.
Camels Urine Benefits According To Muslims – u tube
• A muslim man can divorce (“Talaq” ) his wife just by repeating word divorce 3 times
Triple talaq meant that muslim men could summarily divorce their wives by uttering the word ‘talaq’ thrice in succession.
As a result, thousands of muslim women were left to fend for themselves, even as their husbands moved on to younger women. Some of them were divorced simply by virtue of a whatsapp message or an sms text that read ‘talaq talaq talaq.
• The day-to-day practice of islam is riddled with abhorrent and immoral practices that even to a neutral observer goes against the grain of humanity.
India: Muslim clerics sleep with divorced women so they can return to their husbands under Islamic law. The problem with that is that this practice is Islamic. Allah’s regulations for divorce emphasize regarding women that “men have a degree over them” (Qur’an 2:228). This may be why men can divorce their wives simply by saying, “Talaq” — You are divorced — but women may not do this. Such an easy procedure leads to divorces in a fit of pique, followed by reconciliation — and the Qur’an anticipates this and attempts to head it off by stipulating that a husband who divorces his wife three times cannot reconcile with her until she marries another man and is in turn divorced by him: “And if he has divorced her [for the third time], then she is not lawful to him afterward until she marries a husband other than him” they have sex, and then this second man divorces her then A wife may remarry her ex-husband (Qur’an 2:230).
This has given rise to the phenomenon of “temporary husbands,” who marry and divorce thrice-divorced women at the behest of Islamic clerics even in our own day, so that these poor women can then return to their original husbands – sleeping with divorced women to consummate nikah halala.
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As awful as that may sound, a number of religious scholars are offering themselves up for one-night stands with divorced Muslim women trying to save their marriages under a Islamic law
the majority of muslims resist any change in these practices, either by threatening violence, or by playing the victim card.
• Testimony of a woman before a judge is worth half that of a man.(Qur’an 2:282)
Ad for an Islamic temporary husband — in Ontario
We are constantly told that only greasy Islamophobes think that any of the aspects of Sharia that contradict Western principles of human rights will ever come to Western countries.
Reality is different. Here is an ad for a nikah halala — a temporary marriage allowing a woman to return to her previous husband — in Scarborough, Ontario:
Frank Anderson says
Some thoughts and musing, possibly off to one side, and perhaps somewhat inaccurate:
The purpose of state (government) involvement in marriage is to provide a legal remedy if the marriage fails to protect children and spouses (male and female). Aside from the religious and ethical foundation the purpose of state involvement in marriage is divorce. Now consider what happens in a nanny (welfare) state: Children get welfare. The people dumb enough to work pay the taxes so the liars in charge can throw the money to the deadbeats to buy the votes. So why bother to get married, committing to support of children when you can “make” all you want and the “state” (taxpayers) will pay for them while you are having a good time making more and turning them into deadbeats and monsters. To me this sounds a lot like Ayn Rand’s proposition in Atlas Shrugged. God we are in need of Your help!
Cheer Bear Girl says
Great Britain made a terrible mistake taking in Muslim migrants and immigrants.
They will soon be a Muslim majority country. Hopefully the USA will take a hint and deport Muslims and refuse any Migrants who seek entry.
Peter Buckley says
“They will soon be a Muslim majority country.”
Absolutely hilarious. I presume that was tongue-in-cheek. I can’t believe anyone actually believes all that stuff. I’ve been reading about this supposed “takeover” for around fifteen years. Back then, I seem to recall people actually believed that UK would be an “Islamic country by 2020”.
Oddly, there remains no sign that this is happening, or will ever happen.
According to Pew Research, the muslim population of the UK asnd Europe generally, will be 8% of the population. Personally, I doubt the figure will ever get that high, for the simple reason that a lot of “muslims” clearly aren’t muslims at all. Still, I’m sure you know better than Pew. I’m also sure Islamists everywhere will enjoy reading your posts.
“They will soon be a Muslim majority country.”.
You couldn’t make it up…………..
Peter Buckley says
Here’s the Pew figures:
http://www.pewforum.org/2011/01/27/the-future-of-the-global-muslim-population/
gravenimage says
Peter, right now–officially–Britain is about 5% Muslim.
But this hasn’t taken into account the mushrooming flood of Muslims into the UK and the rest of Europe over the past couple of years. It also does not take into account the rate at which Muslims breed–right now, the name “Mohammad” is the most common boy’s name in Britain. London is almost 13% Muslim.
Shari’ah law is creeping into British society–including polygamy, forced marriage, and child marriage.
You might sneer at these trends, but I cannot understand why you would consider them benign.
george whyte says
Muslim brides are being left debt-stricken and HOMELESS after being abandoned by their husbands – because their Sharia ceremonies are not recognised under UK law
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5092753/Most-Muslim-marriages-not-legal-women-left-homeless.html#ixzz4zC3VcFX0
Stan Lee says
I think the rejected Muslim brides are supported by UK welfare.
Older Canadian says
And you are surprised!
Stan Lee says
Obviously, the UK gov’t is once again, in denial. The Muslims on UK soil scoff at UK or local law. As far as they’re concerned, the law is for Brits and not for them.. They have no respect for Britain, all they wanted were benefits derived from a population of Brits who pay their taxes without fail.
The UK government does not “get it,” or even worse does “get it”, but would rather be in denial.
The Muslims have the British people at disadvantages in almost every situation, and who invited the Muslims to take advantage? The cowards of the UK government, who are more concerned with being exactly “politically correct” than they are to maintaining a balance for the sake of the country. Plus, electing and reelecting Socialists enables the Muslim outlaws.
Anne Smith says
The reliance on tax paid by the hapless British taxpayer was not mentioned in this programme and so many Brits will fail to grasp what a burden these people are on the native British. Perhaps it was not surprising that it failed to get a mention as the programme was made by a Muslima and concentrated on injustices suffered by Muslims.
The single mother nonsense is bankrupting Britain (it is not only the Muslims who play the system), and welfare dependency is sapping any economic enterprise and the major portion of our taxes, not to mention the disastrous amounts we give to Foreign Aid.
I am almost beyond belief at the stupidity of our politicians.
Frank Anderson says
Anne, from what I have seen for more than 60 years, and read from history, politicians who use money collected by the threat of guns and prison are not stupid. They know how to buy the votes to keep them in power. There was a prediction made shortly after the American Revolution (I can’t remember the source) that as soon as the majority of voters realize they can vote themselves benefits at the expense of the minority fools who accept the burden of paying for them, the democracy will collapse. We are long past the point where the minority is paying for the majority’s benefits. When will Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged happen?
dumbledoresarmy says
I don’t view the massively-flawed Ayn Rand as *the* last word on politics or morality.
Frank Anderson says
DDA, I don’t either. One of the great lessons I have learned is that wisdom is all around us, in the Bible and elsewhere. Wisdom is wisdom by itself. It does not depend on position, authority or source. Wherever it is in human hands there is also some measure of error and deception. Life’s big challenge is to listen for the wisdom, cull out the error and deception, and put the wisdom to work in our lives. One needs to be neither great, nor perfect, to speak wisdom from time to time. Even a nobody like me can hit a target every once in a while. To me that is a good reason to keep trying. Best wishes to you.
Infidel says
A cancer and a pestilence in every way…
Harry says
The truth about Muslim marriage.
On TV last night
http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/new-channel-4-survey-reveals-the-truth-about-muslim-marriage
gravenimage says
60% of Muslim marriages in Britain are not legal, women forced into polygamous relationships
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Britain should be fighting this–instead, most of the time they are just handing out more welfare, no questions asked. Madness.