Shariah Law Gaining Strength in UK

I don't remember this being in the news, but religious arbitration was outlawed in Ontario this February.

 

Sharia law as proposed to be applied in western countries is about civil familial arbitration and mediation. The rest of sharia law obviously is in opposition to the laws of western countries and cannot be applied.

 

Why can't sharia law be applied again? Just because there are now existing laws? So these laws are impossible to repeal, just like sharia law?

It's a GOOD thing Ontario and Hampshire don't call the shots. Jeez.

 

What do you mean by applied again?

The proposed use of sharia law in Ontario and now in England is that in cases where both parties wish to settle a civil dispute outside of the public court system, they would be allowed do so under a religious court and have that recognized as legally binding.

None of the laws of the religious court would ever be written into government laws and they would hold no sway over anyone who did not wish to settle a dispute under those laws.

Ontario banned the use of sharia law and any other religious court for this purpose.

 

Even if they tried to do this, they would fail unless there was a political majority seeking to do this.

The more rational view would be that muslims see that Jewish and Christian religious tribunals were voluntarily available to settle familial civil arbitration and mediation agreements in the past and wish to have equality shown with their version of a religious tribunal available as well.

This forces governments to deal with the whole issue of religious tribunals and either allow those of all religions or none. Ontario has chosen to allow none.

 

I agree that Ontario did the right thing. I am not in favour of using sharia law for settling civil disputes.

What I do not like is the misinformation and misrepresentation that occurs on these threads.