So-Called Feminist MPs Ignore Scourge of Sharia Courts

It has happened pretty quickly – just week three on the Women and Equalities Committee and I have seen what a pathetic sham the self-styled feminists in Parliament really are.

If it was funny, you would have to laugh; but actually I found it utterly disgusting and depressing.

So what do our usual suspect vocal feminists in Parliament do when women’s basic rights are in competition with another of their politically correct shibboleths? The answer is absolutely nothing.

The wonderful Crossbench Peer and Human Rights campaigner, Baroness Cox, has introduced a bill which would ban Sharia Councils from making decisions in the UK.

In advance of its second reading she held a meeting for all Parliamentarians to hear from three Muslim women their harrowing stories of how they had been treated by Sharia Councils in the UK, and how the UK courts were respecting the decisions made by them.

These extremely brave women told us how they were forced into marriage at gunpoint, how they were betrothed to men from Pakistan simply so they could move to the UK, how their husbands refused to touch them if they went to university because that made them dirty – and how men could divorce women simply by saying “I divorce you” three times, but women have nothing like the same rights.

How many members of the Women and Equalities Select Committee do you think attended this meeting to hear about this blatant discrimination? Just one – yes, yours truly.

How many MPs came to hear these brave women? Yes, you’ve guessed it – just me.

How many female parliamentarians from either house turned up in solidarity with these women? Apart from Baroness Cox, not a single one.

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