Occasionally, I read something, hidden away from the headlines, that make me wonder at its popular knowledge. Is it something new or something that requires a reminder.
Today, I noticed a story about a local government complaint that some Muslim religious marriages are not being recorded in the civil register. It seems that these marriages simply become known as common-law marriages. As such, in fact, they are only regarded by the community as a marriage under Islamic law, that accepts underage marriage, which may be simply dissolved by the husband stating verbally his wish for a divorce.
This becomes a problem, legally, when government agencies do not accept Sharia law … and further causes such laws of sexual abuse to slowly infiltrate, illegally, into our culture.
Should we be concerned?
