This just in from One Law for All in the UK:
"....there is a real danger that children, within Muslim communities, are at risk of being exposed to sharia law rulings and removed from the protections of the Children Act. Sharia tribunals and councils are gaining ground across the UK. According to a sharia practitioner, the courts are increasingly hearing cases on matters concerning children." [emphasis added]
Read more here.
One Law for All is headed by ex Muslim Maryam Namazie and has a membership of secular Muslims, ex Muslims, non-Muslims and prominent academics. It is a non-partisan non-profit. It's main concern -- one that ought to concern us all -- is the spread of Sharia law in the UK.
There are now nearly 100 Sharia Courts in Britain, and increasingly they are being used to hear cases not just for Muslims, but also cases involving Muslims and non-Muslims. Further, they are encroaching on areas outside their supposed remit of family law, into criminal and civil law.
And if you think, "so what?", well, in that case you ought to read about Sharia law: by far the best reference guide is "Reliance of the Traveller", the "Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law".
All the scary stuff you've heard about Sharia? All true: the beheadings, the stonings, the female genital mutilation, the permission to murder you wayward child for "honour", the execution of apostates from Islam, the requirement for Islamic charity to fund Jihad, and "holy war"... all, all, all of it is there, all of it is clear, all of it is unambiguous, all of it is mandated.
This Manual is approved by the most ancient authority in Islam: the Al-Azhar University in Cairo.
