Do Sharia courts in this country operate as a parallel legal system? Baroness Cox, the independent peer, believes they do. Last week she said: “There is widespread concern that some tribunals applying Sharia are going well beyond their legal remit and some Sharia court rulings are being misrepresented as having the force of UK law.”
In the News
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June 16th, 2011
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June 16th, 2011A Massachusetts middle school has sparked outrage after forcing students to answer questions about oral sex.
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June 16th, 2011THE GOVERNMENT has decided to set up an expert group to examine whether changes to legislation are required to clarify the circumstances when women can have an abortion.
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June 16th, 2011Mike Stock, of the 1980s Stock Aitken Waterman team, urges broadcasters to toughen up standards on explicit content
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June 16th, 2011Its role is self-evident in its title, but it seems the Government Equalities Office may have gone a little too far in correcting unfairness on its own doorstep.
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June 15th, 2011A Christian volunteer network is urging churches to be alert following al-Qaeda’s recent call to Muslims to attack sacred places in the West.
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June 15th, 2011I've just been alerted to the fact that BBC Radio 4 is running another forty-minute 'documentary' on an end-of-life theme next Tuesday 21 June at 2000.
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June 15th, 2011SPUC's Polish colleagues are recommending an exciting new initiative to protect unborn children. A growing list of Polish women journalists are signing an open letter (see press release and letter below) calling for a complete legislative ban on abortion in Poland.
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June 15th, 2011WASHINGTON, D.C. (Worthy News / International Christian Concern) – No country in the Middle East has seen more Christians imprisoned in 2011 than in Iran. A recent report by Christian Solidarity Worldwide revealed that 254 Christians were arrested in more than thirty cities across the country since June 2010.
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June 15th, 2011Individual 'choice' seemed to trump all in Terry Pratchett's film, which served a cocktail of death disguised as an elixir of life