AS IS reported by The Economist in this week’s print edition,almost everybody can agree that there are acute difficulties at the interface between Islamic family law and the liberal West. Especially for married Muslim women, living in a kind of limbo between the Islamic world and the secular world can be exceptionally tough. So far, or so much consensus. What people don’t agree on,however, is how to improve this situation.
Start with England, and which presents an extreme case of the pathologies facing Muslim minorities in the West. In no other country fill so many “sharia councils” sprung up to adjudicate the affairs of Muslim people,especially women who are trapped in poor marriages and want a devout divorce. (Some say these councils should be regulated, others want them abolished.) And in no other country is it so common for young Muslim couples to fill...
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Source: economist.com