Sydney Uni Law School to Teach Sharia Law

[icyfroth]

Australia's most prestigious law school has introduced courses which teach students how sharia law could be incorporated into Australia's legal system.

As part of Muslim Minorities And The Law, professors Salim Farrar and Dr Ghena Krayem are teaching Sydney University students how polygamy and lowering the age of consent could be sufficiently applied to Western civilisation.

The course uses a book, written by the professors, that promotes the idea that “sharia law and common law are not inherently incompatible.

A portion of the textbook identifies the benefits of turning away from monogamous relationships and notes how sharia law does not recognise the minimum age in marriage.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/36373595/sydney-university-course-teaching-sharia-law-benefits/#page...

Jeez. How can polygamy and underage marriage be compatible with Australian law?

[bright.ton42]

I can't remotely understand how sharia law can be compatible with common law.  May i be shot down in flames but i can only see this as another example of appeasing extremists in our community.  

[lind9650]

A very sneaky way of letting law-breakers of the hook.

Our laws should not be changed to allow poligamy or under age marriages. Next thing they will argue that a husband has the right to beat his wife or rape her.

If western people go to a muslim country they have to obey their laws or be severely punished. Those countries will never change their laws, so why should we?

You want to live in Australia, obey our laws or go back to a muslim country.

It makes me sick to read about all the demands from minority groups expecting a whole country to change.

Erica

[go-tazz]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Australia's most prestigious law school has introduced courses which teach students how sharia law could be incorporated into Australia's legal system.

As part of Muslim Minorities And The Law, professors Salim Farrar and Dr Ghena Krayem are teaching Sydney University students how polygamy and lowering the age of consent could be sufficiently applied to Western civilisation.

The course uses a book, written by the professors, that promotes the idea that “sharia law and common law are not inherently incompatible.

A portion of the textbook identifies the benefits of turning away from monogamous relationships and notes how sharia law does not recognise the minimum age in marriage.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/36373595/sydney-university-course-teaching-sharia-law-benefits/#page...

Jeez. How can polygamy and underage marriage be compatible with Australian law?

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Wow,they must be stooping really low if they want to convert pedophiles.

Their "laws" breaks every human right for children,(as if mutilation isn't enough they also want the right to be

pedophiles).

Sharia law is the denigration of any female in the Muslim culture that came into being when the Islamic

religion first came into place and it has no place in modern society,(they want to keep living in the "dark ages"

so that they can control and "punish" all females).

It also protect the male perpetrators in any rape or abuse of females,(which is illegal all over the world but

it's basically applauded via their "laws" and they only receive a token punishment).

It's all based on the word of one man and it's known around the world that any man can lie to get what he

wants or wants to do,(the up rising of all terrorists is a classic example of that).

They all started with one man wanting to "punish" others and get their own way so they get others to commit

to a crime that's even against their own religion by committing suicide.

They promise "rewards" and that they'll go to their version of heaven but it would be the one place they

can't enter because of their suicide and the murders that they have commited).

[johcaschro]

There are certain provisons in sharia law which are already in existence in Australia, but these are the ones which  all interested parties voluntarily agree to be bound by. e.g inheritance rights of women, sharia compliant loans of money, and even polygamy in a sort of de facto sense where it is practised in fact, though without, and outside of, the provisions and sanctions of Australian law

The quality of the "volunteering" however may sometimes be open to debate where there exists a certain powerful pressure to comply, generated by immediate family or other relatives, and/or the lessons taught by some of the influential Muslim clerics and scholars.

This cultural and familial and clerical pressure is, of course, almost exclusively applied to and against Muslim women in our country, and it is also mostly applied by certain Muslim men.

Sharia law as a legal compulsion to act in certain ways is probably not going to be a reality in Australia any time soon; not until there is a sufficient number of our population who would exert their democratic right to elect politicians who would pursue such changes to our legal system.

[springyzone]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Australia's most prestigious law school has introduced courses which teach students how sharia law could be incorporated into Australia's legal system.

As part of Muslim Minorities And The Law, professors Salim Farrar and Dr Ghena Krayem are teaching Sydney University students how polygamy and lowering the age of consent could be sufficiently applied to Western civilisation.

The course uses a book, written by the professors, that promotes the idea that “sharia law and common law are not inherently incompatible.

A portion of the textbook identifies the benefits of turning away from monogamous relationships and notes how sharia law does not recognise the minimum age in marriage.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/36373595/sydney-university-course-teaching-sharia-law-benefits/#page...

Jeez. How can polygamy and underage marriage be compatible with Australian law?

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I'd like to know how these courses are being funded.

This is the thin edge of the wedge.

It doesn't matter whether we 'agree' with sharia law or not.

It doesn't matter if we do not like the idea of young girls being raped in forced marriages.

The fact is that there are some people in our society who hold very different views & that is exactly what they want.

They believe & are working hard to obtain the right to have 2 sets of laws running together-general law and their own sharia law courts. In fact some of the courts are already operating-probably not within the law as it is at the moment, but still in operation.

It is going to depend on how many muslims live here and how many children they have, when these laws are accepted. That's the reality.

Most of us worry about ISIS & terrorist attacks but if we don't want sharia law, we should also worry about the power of the vote because these people, within a generation, may have the power to vote in their candidates & preferences.

Don't assume it won't happen. Already in my electorate for council votes (where we get a big pamphlet with a spiel from each candidate) a while back one candidate wrote what nationality he was and that his efforts would be all for forwarding the rights and conditions of the migrants. No word about the rest of us.

[icyfroth]

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@springyzone wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

Australia's most prestigious law school has introduced courses which teach students how sharia law could be incorporated into Australia's legal system.

As part of Muslim Minorities And The Law, professors Salim Farrar and Dr Ghena Krayem are teaching Sydney University students how polygamy and lowering the age of consent could be sufficiently applied to Western civilisation.

The course uses a book, written by the professors, that promotes the idea that “sharia law and common law are not inherently incompatible.

A portion of the textbook identifies the benefits of turning away from monogamous relationships and notes how sharia law does not recognise the minimum age in marriage.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/36373595/sydney-university-course-teaching-sharia-law-benefits/#page...

Jeez. How can polygamy and underage marriage be compatible with Australian law?

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I'd like to know how these courses are being funded.

This is the thin edge of the wedge.

It doesn't matter whether we 'agree' with sharia law or not.

It doesn't matter if we do not like the idea of young girls being raped in forced marriages.

The fact is that there are some people in our society who hold very different views & that is exactly what they want.

They believe & are working hard to obtain the right to have 2 sets of laws running together-general law and their own sharia law courts. In fact some of the courts are already operating-probably not within the law as it is at the moment, but still in operation.

It is going to depend on how many muslims live here and how many children they have, when these laws are accepted. That's the reality.

Most of us worry about ISIS & terrorist attacks but if we don't want sharia law, we should also worry about the power of the vote because these people, within a generation, may have the power to vote in their candidates & preferences.

Don't assume it won't happen. Already in my electorate for council votes (where we get a big pamphlet with a spiel from each candidate) a while back one candidate wrote what nationality he was and that his efforts would be all for forwarding the rights and conditions of the migrants. No word about the rest of us.

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Exactly. It'll only take another generation or two.

[daydreams_12]

Could not agree more.  What has happened to Australian values that we have all grown up with and accepted without problem.

I commented recently that I was glad to be at the latter part of my life and not just beginning it.  What will happen to our kids, g'kids & ggkids.

[legarlu]

Totally agree daydreams2. Also in SYdney the number of Muslim schools, eg Australian INternational Academy at Kellyville, and another a couple kilometres away in Beaumont Hills and new ones being built at Penrith, Camden, etc.  With the Muslim population at 2.2%seems they're all in Sydney