An estimated 770,000 people in the UK – almost 1.2 per cent of the population – cannot speak English, the government has admitted as it announces a new push to promote integration and reduce the power of Islamic Sharia law.
Demand for Shariah-compliant banking reached an all-time high last year in the UK according to Al Rayan Bank, which recorded a 449 per cent rise in Islamic savings since 2012.
An imam involved with the British government’s review of Sharia courts in Britain has praised the divisive left-wing organisation Hope not Hate for what he termed their “incredible work” opposing “hatred”.
Unofficial and unregulated sharia councils are in operation “everywhere in the country”, MPs have heard.
A Labour MP has said a long-awaited government inquiry into Britain’s sharia courts is ‘Islamophobic’ and should be dropped, proposing the religious legal system should be offered state ‘support’.
One of the UK’s leading sharia courts “protects wife-beating suspects by sabotaging criminal proceedings against them”, a women’s rights group has told a Parliamentary committee.
Polygamy is “commonplace” within Muslim communities in Britain, with husbands fathering as many as 20 children by four wives, a Peer has said. She has called for a change in the law so that Muslim women know their rights under British law not to be discriminated against.
Leaflets have reportedly been distributed in Manchester calling for a public ban on dogs, in order to keep the area pure for Muslims. But while some have claimed the leaflets are a hoax designed to stir up tensions, others are
Theresa May has claimed Muslims in Britain “benefit greatly” from Sharia law as she launched plans for an “independent inquiry,” headed by a Muslim and guided by two “leading imams,” into whether some of the controversial courts’ judgements are at
Five London buildings of the British central governmental administration are now run in accordance with sharia law – including a strict ban on alcohol – after they were pawned off to Muslim buyers as part of an Islamic bond scheme. The
Immigrants with many wives stand to make substantial financial gains under looming changes to Britain’s welfare system. Polygamous marriages, which form a common thread in Islam, are recognised in Britain but only if they take place in countries where they are
A practicing Crown Court Judge has been allowed to simultaneously sit on a Sharia court for the first time. The judge concerned came to the public’s attention last year, after convicting a Christian preacher for quoting a passage of the
Sharia courts in Britain are doing nothing to report domestic abuse and are trapping women in “marital captivity”, an academic with close access to the courts has said. The judges at Sharia courts do everything possible to stop women leaving
In Britain the spread of “religiously sanctioned gender discrimination” and polygamy under Sharia Law means some Muslim men are having up to 20 children each, Baroness Cox has claimed. Baroness Cox was speaking in the House of Lords to promote a bill closing a
The British government is to launch an investigation into UK Sharia courts as part of its counter-extremism strategy after fears they are engaging in “discriminatory” practices. Lord Bates, who serves as Minister for Criminal Information in the Home Office, told
A crossbench peer and human rights expert has called on the Government to conduct a judge-led inquiry into the extent to which Sharia courts are operating in the UK. The move comes amid growing evidence that they are being used
