The recent BBC Panorama investigation on sharia councils raised important questions about fairness and openness in Britain's sharia councils, but was intended more as an exposé than a balanced account.
Such is their prerogative, but quite a different picture emerges from the several academic studies of the councils and their clients: imperfect institutions responding to a demand for a religious (not a legal) service.
[A COMMENT] Sharia councils are two fingers in the face of UK law and our way of life, they should be strongly discouraged from operating in the UK. Sharia is against our values of our nation, if you want to live under such systems of religious laws you should move to a Islamic theocracy. [Guardian Cif] Read more
