Down in Oz, Dr. Zacharia Matthews, president of the Australian Islamic Mission, is taking a break from his pro-hijab efforts to agitate for a parallel legal system that incorporates some elements of Sharia law for Australian Muslims:
”I don’t think we are so unsophisticated that we cannot consider a multilayered legal system as long as it doesn’t conflict with the existing civil system.”
Not the “stone adulterous women to death” bits, nor even the “cut the hands of thieves” pieces, but rather domestic law:
Dr Matthews said a clash occurred in some custody matters. ”Under sharia law, if a couple divorce and the mother remarries, her former husband has the right to decide whether the children will live with the new husband or not,” Dr Matthews said.
”There is still a preference for the child to go with the mother, but the father has the ultimate decision.
”This does not exist in Australian law but I do not believe it clashes fundamentally with Australian values or the Australian legal system.”
Quite right, why get an impartial third party involved when the ex-husband has a deeper knowledge of the players involved?
It seems quite reasonable.
Camel’s nose. Tent.
Leading edge. Wedge.Thin part of.
Tip. Screw.
It would be less expensive and less painful for the Australian government to fly all those who wish to live under sharia law to a nation that already has such a legal structure – that way everybody would be happy without all the hassle of legal reviews, law changes, referenda etc etc…It might not be so bad: in research a project a couple of weeks ago I found that the Maldives is drafting what is thought to be the world’s first sharia-based law code…
I believe the Taliban beat the Maldives to the punch a few years back…
Just want to note here, in case anyone mistakenly wonders, Dr Zacharia Matthews is in no way related to me or to my husband, a fifth generation Texan. I just wonder where Zacharia, a Muslim, got the stubbornly English name of Matthews. Oh well, we’ve also got that idiot Chris Matthews and his tingling leg to drag us down.
Now Snake-Eater … don’t nag me about this.
Marianne
Could I nag you to open a can of dog food then? I prefer canned Badger.
[...] On similar lines, Neptunus Lex documented an attempt by an Australian Moslem to introduce a parallel sharia legal system into Australia…whatever, if it’s such a great system, why doesn’t he pack his bags and head off to someplace that already has one in place? [...]