Call for parts of sharia law in Australia

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Monday, 8 March 2010

Call for parts of sharia law in Australia

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A senior Muslim leader is again calling for elements of sharia law to be legally recognised in Australia. During an open day at Sydney's Lakemba Mosque at the weekend, the Australian Islamic Mission's president, Dr Zachariah Matthews, called for aspects of sharia law to function as a parallel legal system.

Dr Matthews says while Muslims only represent 1.7 per cent of the Australian population, changes are unlikely. But he says there are some small aspects of sharia law the Muslim community would like to have recognised.

"The aspects that we would be looking at are definitely not the penal code system, in so far as people's fears around the cutting off of hands for the crime of theft and the stoning of adulterers," he said. "The aspects that we would be looking at are aspects related to Muslim family law and perhaps Muslim inheritance law."

Dr Matthews says although these are minor differences, they are differences Muslims would like to have recognised.

"When it comes to Muslim family law there are issues relating to the legal age of marriage," he said. In Muslim law, for example, as in Singapore, the legal age for both parties is 16 rather than as it stands currently [at] 18. There's also the issue of the waiting period [between] separation and divorce, which is currently specified at 12 months. In Muslim family law that could be a lot shorter. As long as that concession does not infringe on the rights of others and society at large, then the question I'm asking is, are we not mature enough or sophisticated enough to manage that type of diversity?"

Before long it would be a call to reduce the age of marriage to 14, then 12, then 9. What decent society wants its children married off so young? Celebrating diversity is taking a days holiday for Diwali or Yom Kippur. Marriage of children at a younger age wouldn’t be diversity – it would be tolerating child abuse and slavery.

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Posted on 03/08/2010 1:58 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax

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8 Mar 2010
dumbledoresarmy

Esmerelda - I see you spotted this before I did! (I just sent it to you...). You don't miss much.

Mr Matthews, judging from his surname, appears to be a convert to Islam. Given his obvious interest in the need to lower the marriageable age a bit, I wonder whether part of the attraction for him was the discovery that Islam is paradise for male pedophiles...the right to marry, and use as wives, little girls of 8 or 9 or 10?

I wonder how long it will be before he starts slyly hinting that that unless in the name of 'diversity' we are prepared to wholeheartedly support the right of Muslim males to practise polygyny (up to four wives, plus unlimited number of 'right hand possessions' i.e. unpaid sex slaves), talaq divorce, marriage to - and nonconsensual sex with - underage girls, marital rape and beating of wives, we are unsophisticated and immature?

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