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#1 [Permalink] Posted on 26th May 2016 20:12
The government's announcement today of an independent review into shariah courts in England and Wales is another example of of the government's hostile and discriminatory treatment of Muslims in Britain.

The home secretary Theresa May justified the review on the grounds that there is evidence some sharia councils might be working "in a discriminatory and unacceptable way".

However her statement was not backed up by any evidence nor did it explain why only Muslim dispute resolution forums were being put under scrutiny.

The Jewish community has also long operated its own religious courts called a Beth Din to resolve civil matters according to their faith. The singling out of shariah councils suggests that instead of helping to accommodate Muslims' legitimate needs and aspirations the government is continuing to deal with them as outcasts and their values as social ills.

This view is reinforced by the appointment of so-called experts on the review panel who have no grounding in the community or any experience in resolving the disputes that come before shariah councils.

If the government was genuinely concerned about addressing any real flaws in the activities of shariah councils it need not have looked any further than the Muslim community itself in whom it would find willing and able partners.

Regulating shariah courts - which is undoubtedly the endgame of this review - also speaks to the government's strategy of trying to socially engineer a Muslim community in Britain that is compliant with liberal secular ideals.

IHRC chair Massoud Shadjareh said: "Unfortunately the review is just another in a long line of government initiatives that seek to tag the Muslim community as a problem rather than deal with its members on the basis that they are equal citizens meriting equal rights. This review investigates them as criminals rather than supporting them to meet their religious needs within the framework of the law."

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#2 [Permalink] Posted on 26th May 2016 20:26
The people involved in carrying out this inquiry are as follows:

Professor Mona Siddiqui
Family law barrister Sam Momtaz
Retired high court judge Sir Mark Hedley
Specialist family lawyer Anne Marie Hutchinson
Imam Sayed Ali Abbas Razawi
Imam Qari Asim

Qari Asim and Sayed Ali Abbas Razawi are both part of imams online organisation covertly funded by the British government.

Faith Associates is run by Shaukat Warraich, who receive funding from OSCT and are associated with PR consultancies such as Breakthrough Media. As part of Shaukat Warraich’s projects is the project known as ImamsOnline.com which is described by the website in the following terms:

“Imams Online has been created as an easily accessible online portal serving as a voice, information and career placement initiative aimed at prospective Islamic leaders, Imams, Chaplains, Alims, and Aalimah’s. We aim to provide the necessary information to aspiring Muslim leaders that will enable and encourage them to become the future beacons of the communities they serve. We endeavour to showcase positive Islamic content and share the thoughts and ideas of Islamic thought leadership both here in the UK and across the wider Muslim world. We aim to show that Imams and Islamic Leaders are willing and able to comment on a variety of different issues affecting the Muslim community today.”

It is unclear where the messaging of Imams Online comes from, and who directs the way that messaging takes place.

Go to page 29 for further details
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#3 [Permalink] Posted on 26th May 2016 20:34
My intention was to cover this aspect in the second part of my analysis of Theresa May’s anti-Muslim, discriminatory, hypocritical speech. However, given the outrageous Muslim minority discrimination exhibited by the Home Office, the issue needs to be separately.

May announced that Shari’ah courts are to be investigated, because she “knows there is a problem”. As an example she states that,

“there is evidence of women being “divorced” under Shari’ah law and left in penury”

However, there is also “evidence” of Jewish women being left in marriage limbo due to the abuse by the husband issuing a “get” (divorce). The Beth Din courts govern Halacha (Jewish law). A “get” is required for either of the couple to remarry. Where the husband refuses a “get”, the wife is left in the status of “agunah”, or “chained woman”. If the wife then remarries in this state, her subsequent children (“mamzer”), which are religiously regarded as illegitimate, are treated as outcasts as they cannot marry a fellow Jew and the stigma remains down the line.


An article in the Independent in 2009 reported the “scandal” of the “get” in the Jewish community:

“It’s an absolutely horrible feeling, knowing that you cannot meet anyone else, that you remain utterly trapped in a marriage you are officially divorced from but which your community refuses to accept,” said Miriam, 38, one of very few Orthodox Jewish women willing to speak publicly about her plight.

“All those years pleading for a get were like living in a black hole. My husband was using Jewish law to get back at me, it was the only weapon he had and I was powerless to do anything about it.”


No one knows how many British women are in a similar situation to Miriam but campaigners say there are hundreds at least.

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Susan Epstein, 57, spent years fighting her husband for a get and after five years he eventually relented. But by then it was too late for her son who had been born with her new partner and was therefore branded a mamzer, an illegitimate child who would not be allowed to marry a fellow Orthodox Jew when he grew up.

“I felt like I was being turned away by the very people who were meant to support us,” she said. “For years now, I and a few fellow campaigners have been trying to get the Orthodox Beth Dins to look into the issue but they are so reluctant to even touch the subject.”

And this is before we reach Halachic inheritance law, where, if there are natural sons, the daughter is not entitled to any inheritance whatsoever.

Beth Din “Discrimination” Protected by Home Office

Taking the line of the far-right and bigoted secularists who focus their efforts on the in-season, moronic Shari’ah-bashing, Theresa May has taken state Muslim minority discrimination to a whole new level.

The Zionist lobby group, the Board of Deputies of British Jews has confirmed that government plans to investigate Shari’ah courts will not include a review of the Beth Din court system. The Home Office has given assurances that there are no plans to review “Batei Din” because,

“there is no evidence that they are working in a way that is incompatible with the law.”

Given the aforementioned “scandal”, clearly the Home Office is affording privileged treatment to Zionist interests. Most perturbingly, the Board has confirmed explicitly that it has influenced the draconian self-defeating “anti-extremist” policies announced by May.

Not only is a minority being given, in the words of Theresa May, a “nod and a wink in favour” of “discrimination” against women, the said minority has influenced the draconian, illiberal policies blatantly discriminatorily targeting the Muslim minority!

If this is not the clearest evidence of state-sanction, Muslim minority discrimination, then I really do not know what is. Theresa May has given every reason for the Muslim minority to reject these neocon policies.

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