Council of Europe’s Attempt to resist Sharia

Jan 25, 2019 by

from European Centre for Law & Justice:

On 22 January 2019, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a Resolution entitled “Sharia, the Cairo Declaration and the European Convention on Human Rights.” This resolution – although non-binding – is of major political importance, as it reflects an awareness that Islamic law constitutes a competing legal-religious order to the law of Western modernity, both in Europe and at the universal level. The PACE is “greatly concerned about the fact that Sharia law – including provisions which are in clear contradiction with the Convention – is applied, either officially or unofficially, in several Council of Europe member States, or parts thereof.”

The adoption of this Resolution is a great victory for the ECLJ. Indeed, we organized a seminar the day before the adoption, to have an exchange between Members of the Assembly and women who have been subjected to the application of Sharia (see our videos below). This event was very much attended and allowed the participants to open their eyes on the concrete consequences of Islamic law. In the plenary session, just before the vote, Dutch MP Pieter Omtzigt summarized the story of one of the women who participated in the side-event:

“She was born here (in Europe). But because of her Pakistani origins, her family forcibly married her in Pakistan a few days after she had turned 18. She thought she had a divorce when she finally managed to escape back to Western Europe. The Pakistani authorities did not, and she was sued for having more than one husband. She could escape barely, and now lives underground.”
Watch here the interventions
The parliamentary resolution recalls the incompatibility of Sharia with human rights and calls for its abolition in Western Thrace (Greece). There indeed, it continues to formally govern relations within the Muslim community since its annexation to Greece after the First World War. In Molla Sali v. Greece of December 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) did not dare take this position. In Strasbourg, deputies therefore seem more courageous than judges when facing Islam.

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