Sharia Courts in Britain

[Happy Monkey]

They're generally chosen by the big guy, and forced on the little guy by mandatory arbitration agreements. If the arbitrators want to get chosen, they'd better be a good investment.

Feingold has a proposed law to make such agreements unenforceable.

He may be on his way out.

[glatt]

So in big guy vs. little guy situations, I would agree with you, but in little guy vs. little guy situations, is there anything wrong with them then?

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by glatt

So in big guy vs. little guy situations, I would agree with you, but in little guy vs. little guy situations, is there anything wrong with them then?

It does if one of the 'little guys' has a culturally enforced power and authority over the other 'little guy'.

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Yeah, that's why I said "silver lining" instead of a "good thing". Discrediting arbitration is good, but doing so in this way relies on everybody being afraid of Muslims. And, because of that, it's only talked about with regard to Muslims.

People are saying "Sharia is a parallel law system in Britain!", instead of "arbitration is a parallel law sytem all over the place, usually dominated by corporations, but now some religious fundamentalists are taking advantage of it!"

I completely agree.