08 July 2010

Sharia is not the problem here

The call to ban Sharia Tribunals in Britain made by Maryam Namazie under the rallying call of "One Law for All" sounds superficially attractive but, like the calls to ban the Burka it is fundamentally trying to make a crisis out of a problem. More importantly by obsessing about Sharia Tribunals the campaign is missing a far more fundamental problem facing British Muslim women namely unregistered Marriages. [Guardian Cif] Read more