'We want to offer sharia law to Britain'
Islamic courts meet every week in the UK to rule on divorces and financial disputes. Clare Dwyer Hogg and Jonathan Wynne-Jones report on demands by senior Muslims that sharia be given legal authority

by Clare Dwyer Hogg and Jonathan Wynne-Jones
The Daily Telegraph
January 21, 2008

http://www.islamist-watch.org/180/we-want-to-offer-sharia-law-to-britain

Excerpt:

Amnah is a modern British Muslim. She is dressed in a denim skirt and her head is covered in a hijab. Poised and self-assured, she has come to meet Dr Suhaib Hasan, a silver-bearded sheikh who sits behind his desk, surrounded by religious books.

The origins and obligations of sharia law

"But why would I have to observe the waiting period?" she asks him. "What are the reasons?" There is an urgency to her questions.

	Dr Suhaib Hasan is pushing for personal sharia law to be integrated into the British legal system

"These reasons don't apply to me, that's what I'm very confused about. If you could give me the reasons why I have to wait three months, then I'll understand."

Amnah is going through a divorce and is baffled at being told that she must wait for three months to remarry, considering that she hasn't seen her estranged husband for two years.

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