Sharia law is already seeping into our own country

SHARIA Law is alive and well in Australia.

The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils has approached the Federal Government numerous times requesting that Sharia law be permitted here in Australia.

Thankfully the answer so far has been no. However, Muslim leaders have openly stated that Sharia law is already being practised in Australia, such as in Western Sydney and places like Greenacre and Bankstown.

Sharia, or Islamic law, meaning “path” in Arabic, influences the legal code in nearly all Muslim countries.

Sharia law is rapidly expanding throughout the West. Sharia is derived primarily from the Koran and the Sunna, the sayings, practices and teachings of the Prophet Mohammed.

Sharia law is being used to perform Islamic marriages that are unregistered and unlawful in Australia and often that of under- aged children, some even as young as 10.

The latest Islamic marriage was of a 12- year- old Australian girl to a 26year- old Muslim male that took place in Newcastle in NSW in January 2014, with the blessing of her convert father, who gave the Muslim male his daughter’s phone number so that he could pursue her.

Sadly this is not an isolated case as we are starting to see the increase of unlawful, unregistered forced marriages here in Australia.

A children’s legal centre says it has identified over 250 cases of forced child marriages in just the past two years.

I was told by DOCS in NSW that some 450- 500 child marriages that have taken place just in NSW alone.

The NSW Minister for Women, Pru Goward, has since written to her federal counterpart to ask for national awareness campaigns on underage and forced marriage.

Marriage and divorce are the most significant aspects of Sharia, while Sharia law is being used in Australia to end hundreds of marriages every year.

Sharia law is also being used by

child Imams in business disputes and neighbourhood fights.

If a Muslim woman pursues a divorce in the Australian Family Law Court, the Muslim communities will still class the women as still married.

So they then attend Sharia courts, where a panel of Imams oversee that they are divorced under Sharia law.

Greenacre Mosque in Sydney even issues an Islamic certificate of divorce.

If you think that we only operated under one law in Australia, you are very wrong, as many do not.

Hope this clears up the extent of Sharia law in our country.

KIM VUGA,

Kelso.