Tut tut, Julie, writing for the "Right Wing press" again, are we, an ok for me but not for thee situation 🙄 She's absolutely bloody right, but she's also absolutely bloody hypocritical.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/36624503/sharia-courts-starmer-two-tier-justice/
PM Keir Starmer says it is wrong to suggest there is two-tier justice in the UK – with some groups treated differently because of who they are. His Attorney General, Lord ÂHermer, went even further, saying such claims were “disgusting”. What I have found out about ÂSharia law in the UK shows how dangerously wrong they are. The horrific murder, forced Âmarriage and coercive control of women and girls by family members is still referred to in the UK as “honour crime”. New research shows that there were 2,755 “honour”-based offences recorded here in the last year. Of these, 111 concerned FGM, or female genital mutilation, while 201 related to forced marriage. But my research has shown FGM may well be being carried out behind closed doors in private clinics on London’s Harley Street.
The law against it was Âintroduced 40 years ago yet, so far, there have only ever been TWO prosecutions. Last month, the Home Office announced it will introduce a legal definition of “honour”-based abuse as part of the Government’s pledge to halve violence against women. Yet how will they do this when it would appear that Sharia courts — also known as “councils” — are rife in the UK? The creeping acceptance of Sharia law in the UK has serious ramifications. It signals that all women’s rights are under threat, because to support Sharia (as many liberal and left-wing people in the UK appear to do) is to be against equality. In December 2024, several months after Labour came to power, it was claimed in a major national newspaper investigation that the UK has become the “Western Âcapital” for Sharia courts, which issue religious rulings on marriage and family life. The probe found that an app used by Muslims in England and Wales to create Islamic wills has a drop-down menu for men to select how many wives they have (up to four).
Sharia courts first appeared in Britain in the 1980s and also Âsanction “pleasure marriages”, which allow a man and woman to “marry” for as little as 30 minutes, so that the man can have sex outside of marriage, including in brothels. Women and girls living within Muslim communities in the UK are particularly vulnerable to domestic violence. Forced and early marriage, Âpolygamy and draconian attitudes towards the role of women in the home result in such wives having little or no power — and men doing exactly as they wish.