Feminists!! Do you read the news at all!??

Question

'Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, the Lord Chief Justice, strongly backed Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, over his suggestion earlier this year that aspects of Sharia law should be adopted in Britain."

"Muslims in Britain should be able to live under Sharia law, says top judge"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2242340/Muslims-in-Britain-should-be-able-to-live-under-Sharia-law%2C-says-top-judge.html

Why hasn't there been a peep of this in GWS or ANY of the feminist blogs I'm subscribed to?

The irony is that I only found this story linked to a men's rights blog!!!

How do you feel about this article?

What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

So you missed the public debate about this in FEBRUARY, when it happened?

You should head over to the Politics section on Yahoo!Answers more often, or read some of the UK newspapers online instead of spending all your time in the blogosphere.

At this stage, the suggestion by Lord Maltravers that the UK consider this is just that, a suggestion.

It's unlikely that the British will forego the rule of common law to run a 'dual law' system, and even if they do it won't happen overnight.

Cheers :-)

Answer 2

It is naive in the extreme to assume that under British law women have equal rights.  We do not.  The Criminal Justice System was not set up with women in mind as equal participants in society. To even suggest the introduction of any aspect of Sharia law into British society is a travesty, and believe me, when it does emerge, and it will women must mobilise against it.  But we can't pick and chose are struggles against fundamenatlist positions.  I find Ruth Kelly's position on her Catholicism and the Fertility debate as concerning.  Statements from the House of Lords re: the Abortion debate, that "The most dangerous place for a child is in its mothers womb" as not just inflammatory but bloody dangerous. Lets not look for Muslim bogeymen when there are still so many of our own to get shot of!

Answer 3

This isn't a gender issue (yet). It's a legal issue.

I'm not sure that I like the idea of people in the same country living under different laws. It's like how people on reserves in Canada live under much more lax smoking regulations than the rest of us.

KHANKRUM: I am perfectly aware of how women are treated under Sharia law. But the article discussed all aspects of the story, not just gender. It's not solely a gender issue.

Answer 4

It's not gender, it's an ethical and legal debate - Sharia law is just sadistic and shouldn't be entertained. Want to live in britain then live by OUR rules.

Answer 5

Oh not this again

CC - most people are NOT open to Sharia law here! Not the ones I know anyway ........ including some Muslims

Answer 6

It isn't an issue? Rio are you nuts? Seriously are you that ignorant of how Islam regards and treats Women? Thanks for exposing how the top poster on this Gender & Women's Studies is ill informed at the least, or just plain stupid. Wow.

That has to be the most vacuous nonsense posted here yet.

Jihad's Target: Women  

By Phyllis Chesler and Nancy Kobrin

FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, July 06, 2007

The Islamist "Doctor's Plot" in the UK was fiendish, but one particularly horrific aspect of it has received insufficient attention: it was specifically aimed at women.

Buried deep in the New York Times article on the subject was this fact: The Tiger Tiger nightclub in London was targeted in part because last Thursday was “ladies night.” (Christopher Hitchens, writing in Slate, is among the few so far who focused on this fact.)

Nor is it the first time that Islamists have directly targeted women. British security expert Sajjan M. Gohel remembers a 2004 conspiracy in which "British-born bombers said they wanted to attract women at a nightclub, whom they viewed as promiscuous, in conversations monitored by the police."

When will western progressives, especially feminists, "get" that Muslim terrorists hate women --especially infidel women who are intellectually or sexually independent and whose independence taunts, tempts, and enrages them?

That should come as no surprise.  Islam’s record of treating women is abominable. Islamic gender apartheid targets Muslim women for maximum punishment (lashing, stoning to death, political gang-rape, honor-murder) when they are in any way perceived or misperceived as even slightly independent (e.g. if they want to marry men of their own choosing, divorce dangerously abusive husbands, or simply attend college.) But, even when they have committed no such "crime," many Muslim, Arab, and African women are genitally mutilated; most Muslim and Arab women are routinely beaten as daughters and wives. They are forced to "cover" their hair, faces, bodies, and threatened with maximum punishment when a wisp of hair or too much ankle is showing. They are forced to accept and embrace polygamy and purdah (physical sequestration).

These onerous practices have penetrated the West. Increasingly, masked and silent women are appearing on our streets; their presence is oddly menacing. At the very least, they clearly do not approve of your ways because they have chosen a visibly different path. The fact that some women may view hijab and niqab as a legitimate and humble expression of religious submission or freely choose to be modestly "covered" as a way of proclaiming themselves "off-limits" to western secular promiscuity does not change the fact that their presence also constitutes a walking advertisement for jihad.

Answer 7

I agree with Khankrum.  Sharia law dates by to the time before Christ.  It is absurd, and anachronistic.  It is NOT in the KORAN as some think and Mohammed's wife was a very strong woman.  He would not have done this to his wife.  Sharia law is a human rights violation and the UN would stand against it if we were not so dependent on foreign oil.  

     I hate to see women in the US wearing the black veil  It is like a walking cage - a prison.  Thank GOD we have a Bill of Rights and a Supreme Court that can't be bought by the big oil companies.  If they try that nonsense over here I will march on Washington with my feminists sisters in protest.  We are fighting that in Afghanistan and Iraq.  American men are fighting and dying to end these extremists.  Anyone who would want the US to enforce Sharia law in the US is as bad as the TALIBAN.  There is no difference between extremists and terrorists.  They come from the same frame of mind.  If the UK enforces it they are supporting terrorism.

Answer 8

I find it very disturbing the England is so open to Sharia law. People tried to  use it in Ontario but fortunately our Premier didn't allow it.

I think it's both a gender and legal issue, as women don't have the same rights as men under Sharia.

Answer 9

Sensationalism.

Answer 10

Oh, it's mentioned alright in a lot of places. There are feminist groups who are dealing with feminist issues in Islamic countries, y'know.

What do I think of the idea?  As Britons like to say, I think it's a load of b*llocks!  Makes me glad I live in the US where church and state are separate (for the time being but then we have to deal with our own version of the Christian Fundamentalist "Taliban" who would looooove to take over and deprive people of their basic human rights)