Time Immortal

…it would appear that some daft twits in the British government have given the go-ahead to the implementation of Sharia courts.

And yes, it would appear to be as bad as it sounds.

Islamic law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.

The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.

Rulings issued by a network of five sharia courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through the county courts or High Court.

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In the six cases of domestic violence…the judges ordered the husbands to take anger management classes and mentoring from community elders. There was no further punishment.

In each case, the women subsequently withdrew the complaints they had lodged with the police and the police stopped their investigations.

Well, isn’t that just not a surprise at all? Given that a surprising number of Muslim scholars and teachers world-wide support and endorse wife-beating, I can only imagine that there’s a fifty/fifty chance that the “anger management classes” and “mentoring” will be discussions about the radius and length of stick with which it is permissible to administer a beating.

You know, the Left has been having a spastic fit over Sarah Palin’s nomination as John McCain’s running mate, and more than a few commentators have said — apparently without irony — that the nomination of Palin will set women back X number of years or downgrade their social status to that of “uterus with feet.”

Meanwhile, over in Britain, the social status of women is now actively being degraded in just that way with the implementation of these sharia courts. And do you think Heather Mallick and her ilk have uttered so much as a peep about this issue?

Don’t laugh too hard, dear Reader.