Who can blame the UK if Sharia
Law penetrates the legal system? Well, we all have the reason to blame the UK.
In its endeavour to appeal to the Muslim community by including certain elements of Sharia law in banking laws for example, the UK is most likely
to have an increased Sharia law presence in the next few years.
According to Muslim women, the
UK had betrayed them because of the increasing influence of Sharia law, a legal
construct they have condemned from their own homeland.
Baroness Caroline Cox of the
British House of Lords had released her 40-page report “A Parallel World:
Confronting the Abuse of Many Muslim Women in Britain Today” shows the effects
of Sharia law in the UK’s Muslim community.
Baroness Cox cites the
Arbitration Act of 1996. This allows parties to resolve troubles in British
courts using Sharia principles.
Sharia law fuses the concepts
of arbitration and mediation, but has the loophole of a “jurisdiction creep,”
which allows them to decide cases related to criminal law, including domestic
violence and grievous bodily harm as a result.
It is quite ironic that, while
Britain is fighting Islamist extremism worldwide, it is using the same law that
the terrorists use to downgrade the non-english speaking Muslim women residing
in the United Kingdom back to their fears of the law from their homeland.
It is quite ironic, to say the
least.
