A growing number of young Muslims in the UK are entering marriages that are not legally recognised, BBC Asian Network has found. This is because couples are having an Islamic wedding without the civil ceremony needed for the marriage to be recognised under British law.
.... Shaheeda Khan married her fiance in a traditional Islamic religious ceremony, the nikah, at her home in Birmingham. .... "I had to show a marriage certificate when I was enrolling at university. It was then I realised I didn't have one and it came as a big shock to me," she said.
.... A few months later she came home and found that the locks to her front door had been changed and that she had been thrown out of her home. [BBC] Read more
