The judge ordered a Muslim woman seeking a divorce from her husband to undergo arbitration through an Islamic court
A judge in Texas earlier this year effectively denied a U.S. citizen her constitutionally protected due process rights, choosing instead to order her to appear before an Islamic tribunal where her testimony is considered inferior. And when her lawyers sounded the alarm — the judge doubled down.
In March, Collin County District Judge Andrea Thompson ordered a Muslim woman seeking a divorce from her husband to undergo arbitration not through regular channels but through an Islamic court, also known as a Fiqh Panel — a move that the woman’s lawyers argue is an obvious and unconscionable affront to her constitutional rights.
The woman, Mariam Ayad, was attempting to exercise her legal right to a divorce last year when her husband, Ayad Hashim Latif, revealed that on the day of their wedding in 2008, she had signed an Islamic prenuptial agreement to have all matters regarding the marriage and divorce be decided according to Sharia law.
Good decision judge. She should go back whence she came from.
I agree with the judge. First off, government simply recognizes and records the religious ceremony of marriage (which is why they probably shouldn’t have been in the same-sex court when it came though). Had the judge denied the religious hearing, it would’ve violated the Freedom of Religion. If that’s how she wanted it done, so be it.
I’ve always been told that you CANNOT SIGN YOUR RIGHTS AWAY.
Muslims and a republic don’t go together. At all.
There’s something about setting your daughter on fire for dating a Christian, or chopping hands and feet off criminals (to name a few muslim traditions in their Sharia law) that doesn’t work well in a political system like ours.
So what does a good muslim do? Have more children and overwhelm the countries that don’t like them or their violence.
She’ll be lucky if she isn’t killed right outside the Sharia courtroom.