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Britain Adopts Islamic Law, Gives Sharia Courts Full Power...

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:24:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Oh my Gosh!!!!

Britain Adopts Islamic Law, Gives Sharia Courts Full Power to Rule on Civil Cases

Islamic law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.

The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.

Rulings issued by a network of five sharia courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through county courts or the country's High Court, a part of its Supreme Court system.

Previously, the rulings of sharia courts in Britain could not be enforced, and depended on voluntary compliance among Muslims.

Politicians and church leaders expressed concerns that this could mark the beginnings of a “parallel legal system” based on sharia for some British Muslims.

The word caliphate comes to mind

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:03:16 GMT

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Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Revealed: UK’s first official sharia courts

ISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.

The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.

Rulings issued by a network of five sharia courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through the county courts or High Court.

Previously, the rulings of sharia courts in Britain could not be enforced, and depended on voluntary compliance among Muslims.

It has now emerged that sharia courts with these powers have been set up in London, Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester with the network’s headquarters in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Two more courts are being planned for Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Revealed: UK’s first official sharia courts

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:50:12 GMT

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Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Revealed: UK’s first official sharia courts

September 14, 2008

Abul Taher

ISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.

The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.

Rulings issued by a network of five sharia courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through the county courts or High Court.

Previously, the rulings of sharia courts in Britain could not be enforced, and depended on voluntary compliance among Muslims.

Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, whose Muslim Arbitration Tribunal runs the courts,

Arbitration Act 1996

arbitration tribunals

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Man to divorce 82 wives

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:55:02 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ananova.com

Ananova:

Man to divorce 82 wives

A Nigerian religious leader with 86 wives has accepted an Islamic decree ordering him to divorce all but four.

A spokesman for the emir of Bida told the BBC that Mohammadu Bello Abubakar, 84, agreed to comply with the decree.

The former teacher and Islamic preacher lives in Niger State with his wives and at least 170 children.

One of Nigeria's top Islamic bodies, the Jamatu Nasril Islam, had sentenced him to death. The sentence was lifted but he was threatened with eviction from his home.

Mr Abubakar had challenged Islamic scholars, saying there was no punishment stated in the Koran for having more than four wives.

"All my wives are with children and some of these are people I have married and stayed with for over 30 years. How can they expect me to leave them within two days?" he reportedly told local newspapers.

Tradition or Atrocity?

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:12:26 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: Isn't it time more people stepped up to condemn this practice? Should modern day knowledge not replace outdated tribal rituals? I have no idea how common place this practice is but I think most would find it injurious to the child.

Clip Source: atheism.about.com

Saudi Arabia: Eight-Year-Old Girl Wants Divorce

A girl as young as eight shouldn't even be married, never mind trying to get a divorce — and from a man who is fifty years older! It's only because traditionalist Islam continues to sanction the barbaric practice of marrying off prepubescent girls is this even an issue and that's only because Muslims believe that their prophet, Muhammad, married a girl of about the same age.

This practice would probably be easier to stamp out if only it were permitted for Muslims to say "Not everything Muhammad did was right, and just because Muhammad did it doesn't mean we should today." That, however, is difficult in a religion that considers even visual depictions of Muhammad to be blasphemous, never mind criticism. It's good that most Muslims around the world reject marrying little girls, but it's only in spite of Islamic traditions.

Tags: islam, child bride, saudi arabia

Nigerian man to divorce 82 wives

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:59:19 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Nigerian man to divorce 82 wives

A Nigerian religious leader with 86 wives has accepted an Islamic decree ordering him to divorce all but four of them, local authorities say.

A spokesman for the emir of Bida told the BBC that Mohammadu Bello Abubakar, 84, agreed on Saturday to comply with the decree.

Last week one of Nigeria's top Islamic bodies, the Jamatu Nasril Islam, sentenced him to death.

The sentence was lifted but he was threatened with eviction from his home.

Earlier, Mr Abubakar had challenged Islamic scholars, saying there was no punishment stated in the Koran for having more than four wives.

"I have not contravened any established law that would warrant my being banished from the land... There is no law that says one must not marry more than four wives," the AFP news agency reported him as saying.

Many of the wives live three to a room, some have seven children

The former teacher and Islamic preacher lives in Niger State with his wives and at least 170 children.

Tags: wives

Nigerian man to divorce 82 of his wives

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:14:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "All my wives are with children and some of these are people I have married and stayed with for over 30 years. How can they expect me to leave them within two days?" he reportedly told local newspapers.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

A Nigerian religious leader with 86 wives has accepted an Islamic decree ordering him to divorce all but four of them, local authorities say.

A spokesman for the emir of Bida told the BBC that Mohammadu Bello Abubakar, 84, agreed on Saturday to comply with the decree.

Last week one of Nigeria's top Islamic bodies, the Jamatu Nasril Islam, sentenced him to death.

The sentence was lifted but he was threatened with eviction from his home.

Earlier, Mr Abubakar had challenged Islamic scholars, saying there was no punishment stated in the Koran for having more than four wives.

Many of the wives live three to a room, some have seven children

The former teacher and Islamic preacher lives in Niger State with his wives and at least 170 children.

Tags: odd, polygamy, nigeria, abubakar

ONE PERIOD = 82 SCREAMS OF DIVORCE !

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:51:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I knew it ! there's no man on earth could handle that time of the month x 82,after all Nelson Mandela handle 30 yrs hard labor yet six months home he said f**k this shit, I'm outta here !

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Nigerian man to divorce 82 wives

A Nigerian religious leader with 86 wives has accepted an Islamic decree ordering him to divorce all but four of them, local authorities say.

A tale of two systems

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:34:18 GMT

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Clip Source: www.weeklystandard.com

At first glance, letting religious courts handle family and business disputes through voluntary mediation might seem harmless,

In Britain, for instance, the problems of Islamic family relations have already spawned a

"Muslim marriage mafia." Because numerous British Muslim women are wed in Pakistan or India in a religious ceremony, and their nuptials left unregistered in Britain, they cannot obtain divorces in British civil courts. They are therefore drawn to notorious sharia courts operating in East London under the domination of adherents of the fundamentalist Deobandi interpretation of Islam, which produced the Taliban. The clerics running the East London divorce racket extort thousands of pounds from poor Muslim women to grant them divorces. Their decisions are guided only by personal whim, so long as money is handed over.

Saudi wants divorce after husband lifts her veil

Sat, 31 May 2008 19:24:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Not an Islamic practice but a very old tradition practiced by a minority of people in Gulf countries.

Clip Source: www.alarabiya.net

Saudi wants divorce after husband lifts her veil

Never showed her face in 30 years of marriage

A 50-year-old Saudi woman asked for divorce after her husband lifted her face veil while she was sleeping, local press reported.

For 30 years, the wife said she never showed her face to her husband in conformity with the tradition of her native village near the south western Saudi city of Khamis Mushayt.

In the past Al Arabiya has reported the case of Ali al-Qahtani, whose wife had been wearing the face veil for the entire ten years of their marrage. When he tried to take it off, she threatened to leave and only decided to stay after he swore never to try again.

When asked how she could have kids without her husband ever seeing her face, she replied: "Marriage is about love, not faces."

The practice of always remaining veiled, even in front of your husband, is not an Islamic practice but a very old tradition practiced by a minority of people in Gulf countries.

Islamic Divorce Ruled Not Valid in Maryland

Fri, 09 May 2008 12:21:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: That amount was written into the marriage contract Farah Aleem signed the day she married him in their native Pakistan in 1980, according to the appellate decision. The contract was in accordance with Pakistani custom. At the time, he was 29 and she was 18. The couple moved to the Washington area in 1985…

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From those defenders of the faith at the Washington Post:

“Talaq lacks any significant ‘due process’ for the wife, its use, moreover, directly deprives the wife of the ‘due process’ she is entitled to when she initiates divorce litigation in this state. The lack and deprivation of due process is itself contrary to this state’s public policy,” the court wrote…

According to the Court of Appeals’ opinion, Irfan Aleem, who worked for years as an economist with the World Bank, is worth about $2 million, half of which Farah Aleem is entitled to under Maryland law. When Irfan Aleem tried to divorce his wife under the concept of talaq, a sum of $2,500 was mentioned as a “full and final” settlement, according to the appellate decision.

Friedman said she thinks that Irfan Aleem, who retired in recent years, invoked talaq to avoid paying Farah half of his World Bank pension, which provides him with $90,000 annually, the attorney said.

Tags: islamic divorce, maryland, court of appeals

Yemen: 8-year-old girl forced to marry, demands divorce

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:21:59 GMT

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Nujood’s case is considered the first of its kind where a minor prosecutes her father for marrying her off at a young age and subjecting her to harm [...].
Early marriage is “one of the biggest development challenges in Yemen,” said Naseem Ur Rehman, chief information officer for UNICEF in Sana’a [...].
A 2006 field study revealed that child marriage among Yemeni girls reached 52.1%, compared to 6.7% among males. The study, conducted by the Woman and Development Study Center, affiliated to Sana’a University, [...] disclosed that marriage age raised gradually from an average of 10.24 years to 14.70 years for women and from 20.97 to 21.54 years for men. It indicated that the average marriage age varies from one geographical area to another; for example, it showed that girls in Hodeidah and Hadramout married at the average age of eight, while in Mukalla the average age was 10.

Meldung in Deutsch: stern.de

Clip Source: yementimes.com

Nujood Ali

Nujood Ali, an 8-year-old girl who was forced to marry

Nujood went to Sana’a West Court on April 2 and demanded that the judge grant a divorce between her and her 30-year-old husband, who had physically and sexually abused her for two months. She also filed a case against her father, who married her off to Thamer. Judge Muhammed Al-Qadhi was sympathetic and ordered both husband and father to be kept in custody; however, the latter was released later on health grounds.

However, neither the husband nor the father have legally committed any crime, according to Yemeni law.

The Yemeni Parliament, through its Evaluation and Jurisprudence Committee, rejected a request to amend the personal status law presented by the Women’s National Committee (WNC).

“Not only is it not Islamic, it is even inhuman to subject our girls to such an experience. We must continue to fight for the sake of a better future for our daughters,” said Rashida Al-Hamadani, chairperson of the WNC.

Tags: yemen, forced marriage

An Eye for an Eye

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:52:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: An endless litany of religious edicts speak to ancient tribal beliefs over property, children and sex to technologically-influenced dilemmas, such as can a husband divorce his wife by merely sending her the news via SMS. (LAT)

Clip Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com

Muslim clerics have long differed over fatwas regarding the rights of women

A blurb in the current edition of Egypt Today highlights yet another set of conflicting fatwas

"A few eyebrows went up around the Muslim world," the magazine reports, "when Hezbollah spiritual leader Mohamed Hussein Fadlallah issued a fatwa allowing wives to retaliate for any act their husbands perform, even it means causing permanent physical injury. Al-Azhar (Egypt's Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs) promptly opposed the fatwa, but Fadlallah responded by saying that if a husband was to poke his wife's eye out, no one could blame her if she does the same to him. While Fadlallah argues that God has ordered Muslims to fight back and stand up for their rights, Al-Azhar refused to accept the Shiite cleric's reasoning, maintaining that marital relationships do not allow vendettas."

Jeffrey Fleishman in Cairo

Tags: fatwa

Women and Islam

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:52:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Tell me again how Islam doesn't treat women as second class citizens.

Clip Source: uk.news.yahoo.com

Saudi divorces wife for watching male TV host: report

RIYADH (AFP) - A Saudi man divorced his wife for watching alone a television programme presented by a male, an act he deemed immoral, the Al Shams newspaper reported on Saturday.

The man, whom the paper did not identify, ended his marriage on the grounds his wife was effectively alone with an unrelated man, which is forbidden under the strict Islamic law enforced in the ultra-conservative kingdom, the paper said.

Men in Saudi Arabia have the authority to divorce their wives without resort to the courts.

Tags: islam, religion, rights, women

Marriage in Iran

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:36:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: temporary wives, multiple permanent wives, why Islamic societies are so angry. Most young men are excluded from women.

Clip Source: kamangir.net

As Ahmadinejad’s government has set the only condition for re-marriage to affording it, based on the court’s decision, the Judiciary has just issued a table. Men should know that if the number of their wives does not comply with this table, they will have to divorce the excessive wives and pay a fine.

Monthly Income Number of Wives

More than $5,000 Four Permanent, Infinite Temporary

Between $2,000 and $5,000 Four Permanent, Two Hundred Temporary

Between $1,000 and $2,000 Two Permanent, Fifty Temporary

Between $500 and $1,000 One Permanent, Five Temporary

Less than $500 Do it Yourself

Tags: iran, marriage, muslim

Monthly Income	Number of Wives
More than $5,000	Four Permanent, Infinite Temporary
Between $2,000 and $5,000	Four Permanent, Two Hundred Temporary
Between $1,000 and $2,000	Two Permanent, Fifty Temporary
Between $500 and $1,000	One Permanent, Five Temporary
Less than $500	*Do it Yourself*