UAE personal status law provides expatriates, even if they are not Muslim, with the right to have their case heard under the Islamic law.
It comes after a British mother lost custody of her son to her French ex-husband following a Sharia hearing.
.... "The fact that I didn't obey my husband, that shouldn't be a matter to condemn… it shouldn't be a reason to take my child away from me," she explained.
The BBC's Asian Network has seen official translations of her Sharia divorce and custody judgement.
The former civil servant was branded an unfit and un-Islamic mother for refusing to obey her husband and having gay friends. It also ruled she was a bad mother as her son had eczema. [BBC] Read more
