[ihr_list] Re: Sharia council and true Islam

From: "Javed Chaudry" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "jchaudry" for DMARC)
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Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 21:56:00 -0400

Here is an interesting article on the question of extraterrestrials perhaps
visiting earth more than we care to know. In this connection, I would suggest a
book, ‘The Money Mafia’ by Paul hellyer. Hellyer is now in his 90s, he was once
Canada’s defense minister, back in 1950s. He says that he has seen the flying
saucers that visited the US and collided with each other and crashed. He saw
all that at the famous Area 51. The book is really interesting. The attached
article has an interesting and thought provoking video.

Javed Chaudry

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Subject: [ihr_list] Re: Sharia council and true Islam

Salam,

I just received an article and I read the full article.

I found this interesting article that deals with this issue and want to share
with you all....

Halala: The Most Vile Custom among Muslims

  <http://newageislam.com/picture_library/Sohail-Arshad-New-Age-Islam.jpg>

By Sohail Arshad, New Age Islam

14 Dec., 2012

If a man divorces his loving wife in a fit of rage someday and then after
coming to his senses he realises his mistake and wants to take her back in his
life, the mullah of his town tells him of the only option that is Halala that
can make her ex-wife lawful for him.  He explains to the young man that to
remarry his wife, first he will have to allow her to get married to another man
who will consummate the marriage as her lawful husband. If the man divorces her
only then he can remarry her after she spends the three-month iddat period.

And this has become a widely accepted practice across Muslim societies. In many
towns, the Maulvis (priests) arrange for a man for the marriage of such a
divorced woman by paying him a specific fee. He divorces her after consummating
the marriage within a stipulated period of time making the woman lawful for her
first husband. In most of the cases all the expenses of the marriage and the
fee are paid by the former husband.

In recent years, the practice of administering Halala has taken an ugly turn as
corruption has crept in the clergy and in the society at large in the religious
affairs that have become both means of earning money and getting the
opportunity to legally keep a mistress for a short period of time without
having to worry about any social and legal hassles. Therefore, in many towns
and cities, these muftis themselves have taken up the lofty task of serving the
Muslim Ummah by offering the service of Halala by marrying such hapless women
to make them lawful for their former husbands. According to reports, one mufti
has even established a ‘Halala centre’ to cater to the needs of such
bad-tempered husbands and the filthy rich with uncontrollable lust of keeping
concubines for short periods of time.

According to the editor of Newageislam.com, Mr Sultan Shahin, such ‘Halala
services’ are also offered by the managing committee members of some mosques in
Western countries (in Brussels, for example) where the managing committee
consists of rich people who are ready to offer Halala services. The richest of
them all gets to perform Halala on the most beautiful woman that comes for this
purpose. A fatwa of divorce is given most easily, sometimes on the flimsiest
grounds and sometimes without any ground altogether. This is accepted by the
husband’s family largely as the fatwa and offer of Halala is also accompanied
by a threat of ex-communication by the priests.

This custom has been questioned by non-Muslim as they say that it subjects a
faithful and modest woman to go through this painful orgy due to the mistakes
of her irresponsible husband. In their opinion, it is a bizarre custom devoid
of any logic as the wife has to suffer humiliation and stigma for the folly of
her husband.

The custom of Halala has itself become a problem because of its sheer
misinterpretation and misapplication. The verses of the Quran have been
misinterpreted to misuse the practice of Halala. The Quran says:

“So if a husband divorces his wife (for a third time), he cannot, after that
remarry her until after she has married another husband and he has divorced
her. In that case, there is no blame on either of them if they re-unite,
provided they can keep the limits ordained by Allah. Such are the limits
ordained by Allah which He makes plain to those who know”. (2:230).

Actually, Halala is not a means of remarrying a wife after uttering divorce.
When a man permanently divorces his wife by uttering three Talaqs (divorce) he
cannot remarry her at any cost. If only the woman decides to have a second
marriage to spend the rest of her life peacefully and for the sake of the
future of her children (if any) and at any point of time if the second husband
also divorces her on his own accord as a matter of coincidence and if, in case
the woman also wants to get back to her first husband, she can remarry her
first husband. And this process will be called Halala.

So, the whole episode will be based on a number of coincidences and on the
willingness of the woman to get back. Halala is not an option to get her back
by stage-managing a mutah (temporary marriage) where everything is planned or
agreed upon, that is, a man agrees to marry the divorced woman by charging an
amount of money only to divorce her after having physical relationship with her
for a stipulated or mutually agreed period of time, say, one day or one week
and then divorces her according to the agreement in order to make the woman
lawful for her first husband.

Or the man only wants to keep a mistress for temporary enjoyment and money with
the purpose of divorcing her after a mutually agreed period of time like in
mutah (temporary marriage) without having any commitment towards her. This kind
of Halala is Haram and prohibited in Islam and a bid’at (religious innovation).
The Quran and hadith both prohibit such a marriage and accursed are all those
who are involved in such marriages. Such practice of Halala is Haram as it is
in clear contravention of Hadith and the Quranic ordainments.

Nowadays, the Halalas are arranged marriages and paid-for-affairs in order to
fulfil the minimum criteria to reunite with the spouse. But the holy Prophet
(PBUH) has strictly prohibited such practices in the name of Halala. The holy
prophet (PBUH) admonishes those who misinterpret the verses of the Quran
regarding Halala to serve their own petty interests and removes the confusion.
According to a Hadith, the holy Prophet (PBUH) said:

“'The Curse of Allah be upon the one who marries a divorced woman with the
intention of making her lawful for her former husband, and upon the one for
whom she is made lawful!'.

This Hadith was reported by Hadhrat Ali ibn Talib (R.A.) (Sunan of Abu-Dawood
Hadith 2071).

This Hadith not only invalidates arranged Halalas but also replies to the
criticism of the detractors of Islam who say that by giving sanctions to
Halala, Islam has done great injustice to the divorced women. The holy Prophet
(PBUH) cursed both the men who make the wronged woman go through humiliation
and severe mental and psychological torture and cause her a permanent stigma.
Clearly, the Prophet (PBUH) does not blame her and absolves her of all
responsibility in the entire episode because he too believes that the woman has
been meted out grave injustice by the one who has ruined her life and the other
who has married her only to use her as a sexual object.

Halala is itself an un-Islamic custom, with no Islamic validity.The current
practice is based on wrong interpretation of the Quran, and, therefore, it has
only created other social problems. Most of the time, the second husband
refuses to divorce the ‘Halala’ wife or delays the divorce violating the
agreement. In some cases, the wife herself decides to settle down with the
second husband to teach her first husband a lesson or because she likes or
falls in love with him or feels more secure with him.

Halala is an offshoot of another un-Islamic custom, triple Talaq. Quran clearly
gives the method for divorce in three months; if that is followed and made
mandatory there would be no Halala issue altogether.

Muslims should not accept divorce as legal until a divorce has been pronounced
on three separate occasions If this were made clear to couple that no matter
how many times the husband pronounced divorce the first time it will be
considered one divorce, after which coming together is just a matter of
sleeping together and so on, this evil custom will come to an end.

So this evil is basically a result of a craftily devised Mullah conspiracy to
fulfill their own vile desires. That is why they have made triple Talaq
acceptable and Halala prevalent.

The most worrying aspect of this practice is that the corrupt muftis and
mullahs have promoted this un-Islamic practice to satisfy their lust for having
sex with multiple women without fear of condemnation or opposition either from
their wives or from the society. Such un-Islamic practices of irresponsible
sections of the Muslim society should be exposed and stopped to save the lives
and honour of women in distress. Muslims should be educated to behave
responsibly with their wives as there is no way of remarrying a woman after
divorcing her. Halala comes only as a coincidence. And remember, coincidences
are rare, very rare.

URL:
http://newageislam.com/islamic-sharia-laws/halala--the-most-vile-custom-in-islam/d/9674

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On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Javed Chaudry <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I am reproducing below an article from Gatestone Institute, an organization
that exists only to malign Islam and Muslims. The message of this articles is
something that those who consider themselves responsible Muslims should pay
heed to The problem discussed is not limited to Britain it is practiced in many
countries where Muslims live. It is not (Quranic) Islam that is at fault, it is
the man-made (I call it the cultural Islam) that is at fault which is a factor
in maligning the true (Quranic) Islam. The enemies of Islam or those Muslims
who do not understand (or care for) true Islam often fail to distinguish the
difference between the two.

Javed Chaudry

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Sharia Councils and Sexual Abuse in Britain

by  <https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/author/Khadija+Khan> Khadija Khan
April 14, 2017 at 5:00 am

<https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10191/sharia-councils-sexual-abuse>
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10191/sharia-councils-sexual-abuse

§  As bad as this is, there is an even darker side to the story: Under sharia
law, the second husband is under no obligation to give his wife a quick divorce
– allowing him to keep her as his virtual sex slave for as long as he wishes.

§  If one asks how all of this jibes with British law, the answer is that it
does not.

§  The UK-based NGO, Muslim Women's Network, penned an open letter -- with 100
signatories -- to the British government and Home Affairs Select Committee
demanding that the Sharia Council be investigated to determine whether its
practices adhere to British law. In response, the Sharia Council declared the
letter to be "Islamophobic" and accused the Muslim Women's Network of being an
anti-Muslim organization.

§  It is British law, not sharia, law that protects Muslim individuals and
couples, as it does any other citizen. Contrary to what apologists for this
travesty say, the plight of Muslim women should be treated as an issue of human
rights.

The most recent scandal surrounding the sexual exploitation of Muslim women by
Islamic religious leaders in the UK is yet further proof of the way in which
Britain is turning a blind eye to horrific practices going on right under its
nose.

A  <http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39480846> BBC investigation into "halala" -- a
ritual enabling a divorced Muslim woman to remarry her husband by first wedding
someone else, consummating the union, and then being divorced by him --
revealed that imams in Britain are not only encouraging this, but profiting
financially from it. This depravity has led to many such women being held
hostage, literally and figuratively, to men paid to become their second
husbands.

This ritual, which is considered a misinterpretation of Islamic sharia law even
by extremist Shi'ites and Saudi-style Salafists, is practiced by certain
Islamic sects, such as Hanafis, Barelvis and Deobandis. When a husband repeats
the Arabic word for divorce -- talaq -- three times to his wife, these sects
consider a Muslim marriage null and void. For such a woman to be allowed to
return to the husband who banished her, she must first marry someone else --
and have sex with him -- before the second husband divorces her.

These divorce rites, despite the laws of the land, are common in
<http://scroll.in/article/806299/if-pakistan-and-21-other-counties-have-abolished-triple-talaq-why-shouldnt-india>
India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other Asian countries, where a majority of the
people belong to the Hanafi, Barelvi or Deobandi sects. Nevertheless, local
seminaries, mosques and online services openly advertise and promote halala
with impunity; it is accepted by society and rarely monitored by state
authorities.

In Britain, halala has emerged as a booming business, with websites and social
media sites offering to provide women with second husbands for exorbitant sums
of money. As bad as this is, there is an even darker side to the story: Under
sharia law, the second husband is under no obligation to give his wife a quick
divorce -- allowing him to keep her as his virtual sex slave for as long as he
wishes.

One Muslim woman, who changed her mind about going through with halala after
looking into the process, told the BBC that she knew others who did undergo the
process, and ended up being sexually abused for months by the second husbands
paid to marry them. According to a
<https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/mar/01/inside-britains-sharia-councils-hardline-and-anti-women-or-a-dignified-way-to-divorce>
report in The Guardian, the Sharia Council of Britain says it deals with
hundreds of divorce cases annually.

This
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3358625/Inside-Britain-s-Sharia-courts-EIGHTY-FIVE-Islamic-courts-dispensing-justice-UK-special-investigation-really-goes-doors-shock-core.html>
infamous council is indirectly responsible for what essentially has become a
rape pandemic, since it does nothing to stop or refute halala. In fact, it
declares that the practice is completely legal under sharia law. The only
caveat, the council states, is that the imams presiding over it are not
following the proper guidelines, according to which the second marriage and
divorce should not be premeditated, but rather happen naturally.

If one asks how all of this jibes with British law, the answer is that it does
not. But young Muslims in the UK are discouraged by their communities from
marrying through the British system, and are told to have imams perform their
weddings and sharia councils register their marriages Couples who comply end up
being at the mercy of Islamic authorities in family matters, including divorce.

Due to its often unethical practices conducted in the name of religious law,
the Sharia Council has come under scrutiny a number of times. Last November,
for instance, the UK-based NGO, Muslim Women's Network,
<http://www.mwnuk.co.uk/mediaStatmentDetail.php?id=172> penned an open letter
-- with 100 signatories -- to the British government and Home Affairs Select
Committee demanding that the Sharia Council be investigated to determine
whether its practices adhere to British law.

In response, the Sharia Council declared the letter to be "Islamophobic" and
accused the Muslim Women's Network of being an anti-Muslim organization. In
addition, Labour MP Naz Shah
<http://www.mwnuk.co.uk/mediaStatmentDetail.php?id=172>  jumped to the defense
of the Sharia Council, rejecting the idea of an inquiry, on the grounds that
shutting down such councils could mean that more women would be stuck in
abusive marriages.

While acknowledging that these councils could be used as a tool to deny women
their rights, Shah said that they also serve as valuable arbitrators in marital
disputes.

Her claims are totally baseless. It is British law, not sharia, law that
protects Muslim individuals and couples, as it does any other citizen.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/pics/1013.jpg

Haitham al-Haddad is a British shari'a council judge, and sits on the board of
advisors for the Islamic Sharia Council. Regarding the handling of domestic
violence cases, he stated in an interview, "A man should not be questioned why
he hit his wife, because this is something between them. Leave them alone. They
can sort their matters among themselves." (Image source: Channel 4 News video
screenshot)

Had the British government addressed Sharia Council malpractice when it was
first revealed, we would not be facing this pandemic today. Contrary to what
apologists for this travesty say, the plight of Muslim women should be treated
as an issue of human rights.

It is time for the British government to wake up and take a tough stand on such
unethical, and probably illegal, system. And the sooner the better, lest the
whole sharia council system go "underground" and out of reach to protect
thousands of women from abuse.

Khadija Khan is a Pakistan-based journalist and commentator.

© 2017 Gatestone Institute. All rights reserved. The articles printed here do
not necessarily reflect the views of the Editors or of Gatestone Institute. No
part of the Gatestone website or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied
or modified, without the prior written consent of Gatestone Institute.

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