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I read this over on Barnabas today.

The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT) in the UK claimed in July that 5% of its cases now come from non-Muslims. The MAT is planning to triple the number of its own sharia courts to 15 by the end of 2009 and to act as an advisory body to dozens of other sharia courts. However, because of the bias of sharia against women, such courts are incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. Furthermore, the mere existence of sharia courts puts pressure on British Muslim women to allow their cases to be tried in the sharia courts rather than in the secular courts. Please pray that the British government will be alert to the inbuilt injustice of sharia and ensure that it does not gain power or even influence in the British court system.