Two legal sytems now operate in many parts of The UK one that we are all supposed to live under as equal Citizens British Law and another Sharia Law.
Sharia in its purest for is a barbaric,racist and sexist kangaroo court of the worst kind that in Muslim countries deals out severe and barbaric sentences for the smallest of crimes.
Punishments range from stoning to death,amputation of limbs,hanging,public beheading and in some Muslim Countries their has been evidence of Crucifixtion a practice that even the Romans eventually banned as being to barbaric.
Sharia Law should be opposed for its imposition of theocracy over democracy, its abuse of human rights, its institutionalized discrimination, its denial of human dignity and individual autonomy, its punishment of alternative lifestyle choices, and for the severity of its punishments.
In sharia-based societies, such as Saudi Arabia or the old Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, crimes against society are punished by beheadings, stoning to death and amputations. Women are kept in purdah and limited to child-rearing and caring for the home and treated as second class Citizens,
In Britain, sharia courts are permitted to rule only in civil cases, such as divorce and financial disputes. Until last year, these rulings depended on voluntary compliance among Muslims. But now, due to a clause in the Arbitration Act 1996, they are enforceable by county and high courts.
Dr Hasan is the man who introduced sharia courts to Britain almost 30 years ago.
The softly spoken, grey-bearded scholar was born in Pakistan, studied in Saudi Arabia and worked in East Africa before moving to Britain in the Sixties. He is the Secretary of the Islamic Sharia Council of Britain and a member of the senior panel of imams who sit once a month at Regent's Park Mosque in London.
Dr Hasan says.
'In Britain, the ultimate authority is the Prime Minister. In an army, it is the commander-in-chief. On the bus, it is the bus driver. And in the house, the smallest unit of society, sharia says authority must be with the man to maintain the house.
that under Islam, the woman is seen as someone who needs the protection of a man. In matters of divorce, the right of ending a marriage lies with the man because 'women have emotions, whereas a man thinks first before he speaks'.
He refuses to accept that there is an inherent conflict between sharia and British law in areas such as equality for women and human rights.
Sarfraz Sarwar, leader of the Basildon Islamic Centre in Essex
when asked what the penalty would be for under-age sex. Says
'You won't like it. But sharia says if they're caught doing it, you stone the woman.'
Mr Sarwar's other suggestion is to adapt the 'three strikes' policy on crime. Instead of being jailed on the third conviction, a criminal could face having a hand chopped off.
He refuses to accept the notion that values of human rights are enshrined in the British way of life.
Keith Porteous Wood, director of campaign group One Law For All and the National Secular Society, raised the issue with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, in Brussels.
Hitting out at the use of Muslim arbitration tribunals, he said: 'Women are particularly vulnerable as they're forced to submit to these tribunals and Islamic law treats women less favourably than men.
'It's essential that it is one law for all in every country and that the law is democratically established and human rights compliant.
Sharia fails that test.'
