HUNDREDS OF UK MUSLIM WOMEN FIND OUT THEY AREN'T REALLY MARRIED

Hundreds of UK muslim women are learning that their marital "I do" was really a "No - you didn't". --------

Apparently several "prestigious" mosques have refused to register, as per British law, marriages performed at the mosques. The imams, conducting the ceremony, are also unauthorized to conduct legal marriages. These mosques have chosen instead to follow what is required under Islamic law. One suspects that this is the case for the majority of mosques throughout Great Britain.How does this matter?

Well as these mosque-married muslim women found themselves in failed marriages and sued for divorce they made the discovery that, according to British law, they have not been married at all!  And thus they and their children are NOT entitled to protection under the marriage law and are not eligible for maintenace payments from the wife's "husband".

In an effort to stubbornly thumb their noses at British law in an attempt to place Sharia law over British law --these mosques have placed their female members and their children in the position of having lived in a unmarried state with no legal status.

Of course - it is the British taxpayers who will pick up the support payments, housing benefits, etc. that the "ex"-husband is now free to abstain from paying.

entire article - emphasis mine

Hundreds of Muslim women may not be married

By Angela Kelly

HUNDREDS of Muslim women in Bolton married in a mosque or at prestigious venues like the Reebok may not actually be married.

Marital law expert Mr Nick Lewis of Bolton solicitors KBL said that he had been consulted "on a number of occasions" by Muslim women who had come about a divorce. "But," he stated, "they have been distressed to find that they have not been married at all."

Mr Lewis explained that in many cases the ceremony was conducted by an Imam (holy man) either in a mosque or elsewhere, in a traditional ceremony. The couple then signed a register which would have been kept at the mosque.

He said: "Unfortunately, the simple fact is that, unless the venue is registered for the solemnisation of marriage and the person conducting the ceremony is authorised under Civil Law to do so, there is no legal marriage. There must be a separate civil ceremony."

This meant that, for many women who had thought they were married "the upsetting truth is that they have been deprived of the protection given to them and their children by virtue of being married".

Mr Lewis added: "In these circumstances, they are not entitled to maintenance for themselves, and the court cannot make orders -- save in exceptional circumstances - in respect of any property owned by them."

He stated that the problem had been "bubbling under for several years without any successful resolution to it." Mosques had been encouraged to become registered but, said Mr Lewis, "few have done so".

Comments

[Philip Saenz]

Since these women were never married, they were living in adultery. But, unlike some backward, Islamic countries, these women will not be stoned to death, at least I hope, not in Britain. I hope these women don't return to a backward Islamic country. If they do, it's possible they will be stoned to death, or at least be given hundreds of lashes with a heavy cane until their buttocks and legs are bloody red and torn.

Britain, don't accept Sharia law. If you do, these women, who were living in adultery, will be stoned to death in your own country.

[Ulla]

Well, Philip, you are wrong. They do not risk any punishment under the sharia, at least not for adultery, because they were married by an imam. Their problem is that they will have a hard time getting divorced in the eyes of their families and the ummah. The husband and the imam can just refuse to grant an islamic divorce. This is a problem for muslim women whether or not they have been married legally. Not unlike in the catholic church.
The other problem is that, as they have not been married in the eyes of the law and civil society, they cannot claim economic support from their "husbands".
They are screwed both ways, so to speak.

[ThePatriot]

They were "screwed" well before getting married. They were screwed when they embraced Islam - the worlds most intolerant and violent ideology.

[Stout Viking]

Um, Earth to Phillip, can you read me? Did you take a look at the "honor killing" ratio in the UK lately? Or in Norway? Or Germany? Or France? Or Portugal? Or USA? Or Canada?
Sure, the numbers are not as high as in their homelands, but too high for civilized European standards. They want to live like savages - let them do it elsewhere. Ship those sand-monkeys back or at least protect the women from the savage Muslim gangbangers.

[Haim]

This would be a very easy problem to solve, if the English were still English. If the mosques did this on purpose---to put sharia above English law---make the mosques pay maintenance to the women.

[MediEvil BarbarIslam]

If England would just submit to Islam this problem would be sorted.

[Phil On The Bay]

It is quite obvious this is some sort of polygamous racket. These "savages" have played us for fools and are very cleverly using our social services to support their neolithic lifestyle. How else can they reproduce so fast,still live in a house with a 2 car garage, and spend half the day at "religious devotions".
This tired old scam is so obvious that the government must be seen as complicit. The solution is simple: Arrest and deport the Imams and shut down any offending Mosques, PERMANENTLY. There are too many Mosques in the UK anyway, even from the perspective of attracting tourism. This is the stern language the "Muslim community" will understand and respect, anything else will be taken for approval of polygamy and Sharia.