Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Sunday, June 3, 2018
Inside Britain’s Sharia Courts: Battered Wives Plead with Clerics to Dissolve Abusive Marriages for Cash
Breitbart.com reports: “A journalist has been allowed a rare
glimpse into the workings of Britain’s secretive Sharia Courts, which
can preside over business, marriage, and financial disputes in the
Muslim community under the Arbitration Act of 1996.
‘What strikes you first is the squalid nature of the women’s stories. Their husbands have beaten and abused them, they claim; lied and cheated, cavorted with prostitutes, become addicted to drugs. One weeping wife even accuses her spouse of molesting her infant child,’ reports David Jones in an article for the Daily Mail.
Jones describes how, ‘after much negotiation’, he was able to persuade a Sharia council in Birmingham to let him observe it in action as a ‘procession of downtrodden women’ came to plead for the dissolution of their Islamic marriages ‘in a windowless chamber in the city’s huge Central Mosque’ — in exchange for a £300 fee.
Just how many courts of this kind are operating in Britain is unknown, with Reading University estimating around 30 and the Civitas think-tank estimating around 85 — but the Government has conceded they pose a danger to Britain’s social cohesion, ‘[keeping] many Muslims isolated, entrenched and with little social stake in wider British citizenship and life.’
Many Muslim women find themselves forced to turn to these courts because their husbands do not supplement their Islamic marriages with civil marriages — which would give wives more rights in the secular courts, and prevent husbands from taking extra spouses without breaking the law on bigamy…”
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‘What strikes you first is the squalid nature of the women’s stories. Their husbands have beaten and abused them, they claim; lied and cheated, cavorted with prostitutes, become addicted to drugs. One weeping wife even accuses her spouse of molesting her infant child,’ reports David Jones in an article for the Daily Mail.
Jones describes how, ‘after much negotiation’, he was able to persuade a Sharia council in Birmingham to let him observe it in action as a ‘procession of downtrodden women’ came to plead for the dissolution of their Islamic marriages ‘in a windowless chamber in the city’s huge Central Mosque’ — in exchange for a £300 fee.
Just how many courts of this kind are operating in Britain is unknown, with Reading University estimating around 30 and the Civitas think-tank estimating around 85 — but the Government has conceded they pose a danger to Britain’s social cohesion, ‘[keeping] many Muslims isolated, entrenched and with little social stake in wider British citizenship and life.’
Many Muslim women find themselves forced to turn to these courts because their husbands do not supplement their Islamic marriages with civil marriages — which would give wives more rights in the secular courts, and prevent husbands from taking extra spouses without breaking the law on bigamy…”
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'Demonic possession is real and victims seeking exorcism should not be ignored': Prominent psychiatrist on the world beyond
(TELEGRAPH) — It is a phenomenon that
is on the rise throughout the world: The number of cases of demonic
possession – and demands for priests to carry out exorcisms – is,
according to multiple sources, soaring.
Medical science remains sceptical. However, a Princeton-and-Yale-educated mainstream psychiatrist believes demonic possession is indeed very real – and claims that the majority of Americans agree with him.
With 25 years experience in a private psychiatric practice and as a professor at New York Medical College and Columbia University, Dr Richard Gallagher has a rare vantage point to observe human behavior. And then there is the inhuman.
Read more here.
Medical science remains sceptical. However, a Princeton-and-Yale-educated mainstream psychiatrist believes demonic possession is indeed very real – and claims that the majority of Americans agree with him.
With 25 years experience in a private psychiatric practice and as a professor at New York Medical College and Columbia University, Dr Richard Gallagher has a rare vantage point to observe human behavior. And then there is the inhuman.
Gallagher
He
is also a sought-after psychiatrist for discernment, the initial step
in determining the need for exorcism. Dr Gallagher has evaluated
hundreds of cases of possible possession and, in a wide-ranging and rare
interview with the Telegraph, explains why he believes the phenomenon
is genuine.
In April, at a
Vatican training course for exorcist priests, participants were told
that demand for exorcism is booming as a result of a decline in
Christian faith and the internet providing easy access to black magic, the occult and Satanism.
Read more here.
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