Britain’s sharia councils and secular alternatives
The secular legal system can uphold the rights of minority women forced to conform to patriarchal religious laws, writes Lejla Kuric.
The secular legal system can uphold the rights of minority women forced to conform to patriarchal religious laws, writes Lejla Kuric.
Sharia courts, which are wrongly perceived to be part of a Muslim’s ‘right to religion’, are in actual fact part of the political battle and fight for power by Islamists.