With 85 Sharia courts, UK becomes western capital for Islamic rulings

Britain is emerging as the "western capital" for sharia courts, with 85 Islamic councils across the country. The Islamic Sharia Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is based in Leyton, east London, and is a registered charity that provides nikah services, talaq and khula divorce procedures. 100,000 ISLAMIC MARRIAGES IN BRITAIN REMAIN UNREGISTERED These sharia courts in the UK consist of panels of Islamic scholars, who are mostly male. CONCERNS OF NATIONAL SECULAR SOCIETY ABOUT ISLAMIC COURTS The National Secular Society, an organisation that promotes secularism, stated its concerns about the presence of a parallel legal system in Britain.