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Thursday 18 December 2008

The twenty-seventh weekly "No Shit, Sherlock" award

This week it is a joint award and it goes to the Muslim think tank, the Centre for Islamic Pluralism, and the BBC for the staggering news that:
"some UK Imams discriminate against women when enforcing Islamic Sharia law."

"No shit, Sherlock"

Apparently:
"They found some women did not get fair hearings in forced marriage, arranged marriage and domestic violence matters."
Shockingly:
"Thirty-year-old Sophiya (not her real name) from West Yorkshire, was 13 when her father arranged her marriage to a distant cousin in Pakistan. She said that after much resistance she was forced to marry a man she did not want to, but decided to go through with it so she could get back to the UK and put her case to a local Imam.

"I saw three Imams but they all ruled that I was legally married according to the Sharia. I told them I had been forced but they said that did not change anything."

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