A MUSLIM doctor learned this week that shariah law relating to matrimonial affairs has no standing in the UK.
After Dr Zaid Al-Saffar, a consultant rheumatologist at Scarborough Hospital and head of the town’s Islamic society, was ordered by the Appeal Court to pay his ex-wife £60,000 maintenance, he declared: “Family law in this county is biased against Muslim people.”
Al-Saffar’s clash with the law began when he and his wife, academic Hanan Al-Saffer, split in 2008. According to this report, in traditional Muslim societies there is often no expectation that the ex-husband will pay maintenance to the divorced wife and that she has to look to her extended family for support. [The Freethinker] Read more
