Islamists want shari’a law in Britain

Claiming a benign help to Muslim communities, Islamists want shari’a law in Britain, beginning with Islamic arbitration courts

Clare Dwyer Hogg and Jonathan Wynne-Jones reported in depth for the Guardian Monday, Jan. 21, on Islamist demands for sharia law to have legal authority in the British legal system.

The courts already meet weekly in the United Kingdom, and not being recognized has ramifications for Britain’s Muslim community, is their claim.

They want to cross over and gain some level of official recognition - the Islamists say they would issue benign religious fatwas on divorces and monetary disputes, not criminal matters.

Islamic arrogance shows in their supremacist views, dhimmitude [Islamic apartheid] sexism and murderous persecution against Muslims exercising freedom of association away from Islam.

Though the report does not spell it out, the information is there: giving in to shari’a advocates and handing them credibility is a step toward societal suicide.

That is true for any society dealing with shari’a Islam - it is an insurrection calling for the destruction of our Constitutional Republic here in America - that’s what is at stake…

Dr Suhaib Hasan, a silver-bearded sheikh sits behind his desk surrounded by religious books.

His is one of dozens of shari’a courts - also known as councils - that have been set up in mosques, Islamic centers and even schools across Britain, with numbers using them on the rise.

To many in the West, talk of shari’a law conjures up images of the floggings, amputations. stonings, and beheadings carried out in hard-line Islamic states such as Saudi Arabia and Iran.

The courts currently open in Britain are more mundane, focusing mainly on marriage, divorce and financial disputes.

The judgments of the courts have no basis in British law, and are therefore technically illegitimate - they are binding only in that those involved agree to comply…

Dr Hasan, presiding over shari’a courts in Britain for more than 25 years, argues British law would benefit from integrating into the civil system - divorces could be rubber-stamped in the same way Jewish couples from a “Beth Din” court have their divorce recognized in secular courts.

He points out that the Islamic Shari’a Council, of which he is the general secretary, is flooded with work. It hears about 50 divorce cases every month, and responds to as many as 10 requests every day by email and phone for a fatwa - a religious verdict on a religious matter.

Dr Hasan, who is also a spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain on issues of sharia law, says there is great misunderstanding of the issue in the West.

"Whenever people associate the word 'shari’a' with Muslims, they think it is flogging and stoning to death and cutting off the hand," he says with a smile.

He makes the distinction between the aspects of law that shari’a covers: worship, penal law, and personal law. Muslim leaders in Britain are interested only in integrating personal law, he says.

“Penal law is the duty of the Muslim state - it is not in the hands of any public institution like us to handle it. Only a Muslim government that believes in Islam is going to implement it. So there is no question of asking for penal law to be introduced here in the UK - that is out of the question."

Out of the question, for now - until a fatwa declares Britain must be an Islamic state, and the government overthrown. Islamic Shari’a law demands dominion.

It is based on the Qur’an and other sayings and stories of Muhammad, Islam’s seventh-century brigand turned self-styled prophet and emperor. -

Shari’a, and Islamism, claims superseding authority over all the Biblical prophets and the witnesses and apostles of Christianity, with Muhammad dispensing all truth all by himself from his claimed meetings with Allah, Islam’s god, and an angel, in a cave.

What could possibly go wrong…

Hasan is open in supporting the severe punishments meted out in countries where shari’a law governs the country.

"Even though cutting off hands and feet, or flogging the drunkard and fornicator, seem to be very abhorrent, once they are implemented, they become a deterrent for the whole society,” he said.

"This is why in Saudi Arabia, for example, where these measures are implemented, the crime rate is very, very, low.” …

"If shari’a law is implemented, then you can turn this country into a haven of peace because once a thief's hand is cut off nobody is going to steal," he added.

"Once, just only once, if an adulterer is stoned nobody is going to commit this crime at all.” …

Dr Hasan's cause is not helped by the fact that, last December, he was named by the Policy Exchange think tank as being linked to a mosque, the Al-Tawhid in Leyton, east London, which was accused of propagating extremist literature…

"The introduction of shari’a law in Britain raises complex questions, as some of its basic tenets are incompatible with the fundamental principles of our liberal democracy and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," says Baroness Cox, a leading human rights campaigner.

"There is no equality before the law between men and women and between Muslims and non-Muslims; and there is no freedom to choose and change religion."

Ibrahim Mogra, chairman of the Muslim Council of Britain's inter-faith committee, admits that to non-Muslims some laws may seem harsh on women.

Those who are married to a man with a number of wives can be treated badly, for instance. But he insists that shari’a is an equitable system.

"It may mean that a woman married under Islamic law has no legal rights, but the husband is required to pay for everything in marriage and in the case of a divorce all the woman's belongings are hers to keep,” Mogra said.

In fact, Sheikh Mogra argues that shari’a in Britain would give rights to women. "A Muslim man can take a second wife under shari’a law and treat her as he wants, knowing that she has no legal rights in Britain.

“It means that she is regarded as no more than a mistress and he can walk out on her when he wants,” he added…

And recognizing shari’a law as having legal authority would help these women, how? …

Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, the secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, points out that during British rule in India, Muslim personal law was allowed to operate.

"Shari’a encompasses all aspects of Muslim life including personal law," he says. "In tolerant, inclusive societies all faith groups enjoy some acceptance of their religious rules in matters of their personal life.

"I am sure someday our society here will also be more at ease with its Muslim community and see the benefit of allowing such rights to those who prefer this."

We must be clear, giving even some credibility to shari’a law would bind any legal system of any society stupid enough to do so to the good graces of Islamic law, and open the door to eventual claims that the whole must be Islamic for the sake justice.

Shari’a law anyone? As in the proposition for Communist rule during the last century, once you make that choice, there’s no going back - this is a totalitarian system. They want deeper conflict, then the thin veneer of justification to claim a fatwa for jihad overthrow.

Step by step, we are witnessing Europe decline into an Islamic age of darkness, the undoing of 1,300 years of societal development out of Europe’s medieval madness.

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