The adoption of a new family code aimed at gender equality in Mali has sparked protests and threats of violence. Tens of thousands of Malians have protested since the National Assembly adopted a controversial new family code in early August. The country now waits to see if President Amadou Toumani Toure will sign the code […]
A Saudi Arabian father forced his 10-year-old daughter to return to her 80-year-old husband Sunday, after she was found hiding at the home of her aunt for 10 days, Arab News reported. Read more at Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,543060,00.html?test=latestnews
Andrew Bostom on Rifqa Bary and Shariah in America
On August 24, 2009 · In apostasy, Creeping Shariah, family law, Hamas, HARVARD, Islam, Islamic Law, Shariah and Children, Shariah Law, USA, Women's Rights Under Shariah Law, Yale
Andrew Bostom is one of the most insightful commentators on the subject of Shariah and Jihad today and he has written another excellent piece for the American thinker which is well worth reading… http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/killing_rifqa.html
Yesterday, we reported that the Constitutional Court of South Africa has recognized polygamy in a ruling having to do with estate law: https://shariahfinancewatch.org/2009/07/15/shariah-creeps-into-south-african-estate-law-polygamy-now-recognized-by-courts/ Today, we ran across an article proclaiming the ruling as a victory for women’s rights in South Africa. We thought that this take on the subject was illustrative of the methodology that […]
The Constitutional Court of South Africa has just ruled that all wives in a Muslim marriage are entitled to a claim from the estate of a husband who dies without a will. As far as we know, polygamy has never been legal in South Africa. Until now, it has never been recognized. We suspect that […]
The Irish Times published a short article overnight which highlighted a growing problem in the West: child abductions in which the children who are abducted are brought by a parent (usually a father) to that parent’s foreign country of origin. It has proven exceedingly difficult to do anything about these cases, especially in nations in […]
The application of shariah law in Western courts to accommodate Muslim immigrants is rearing its ugly head again. The field of family law is a very important fundamental legal area and if shariah is able to gain a firm foothold in that area, it would almost certainly have major implications down the road in commercial […]
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