Sociology

Sharia law is an Islamic law that legalizes women inheritance, divorce and marriage procedures.  In some European countries, the law is termed as controversial law due to human rights law of the supreme courts. The main criticism is that since the sharia law courts operate under closed doors, the laws are likely to intimidate women.   Some of the rulings include clauses like Muslim women are not allowed to marry non-Muslim men not unless that man decides to convert to Islam and if any woman marries a non Muslim, their children should be separated from the woman until she is married to a Muslim (Peirce, 23). It is also legal that polygamy should be practiced and that the woman should always be ready for the husband. That is, it is mandatory for the woman to offer sex whenever the husband demands it regardless of whether she is willing or not.  It is also legally accepted that a male child is a fathers child from the age of seven years no matter whatever the circumstance the mother faces.

These laws are rather a restriction to freedom of expression movement and in human because they restrict the woman to become a subject to the man instead of the equality of human rights.  It is disputable that one should have sex unwillingly, just because the other person demands it.  It is also imperatively wrong and unethical for a mother who is living in a divorced family to leave her sons to the husbands custody when the sons are either not willing to stay with the father or when the mother is not willing to leave them to their father (Dwyer, 15). More so, if the Muslim law allows a man to marry many women and not the vice versa, and that the man may marry non Muslims, then the women should be allowed to marry whoever they want.  Marriage is an institution between the two and the agreement is bound to be long-lasting no matter the religion from which one marries (Bowen, 45).

The Great Britain high court ruling is worth of confrontation when it allows the Sharia law to be followed in Muslim dominated countries because the law subjects the woman to unfair treatment and judgments.  The law does not allow equality of sexes and this makes a woman to be a subject to man so they cannot make crucial decisions of their married lives (Vogel, 31).

However, the law is relevant to the Muslim communities because they apply to the Muslim religion and not other religions. If the women are allowed to choose the religion and they select the Muslim religion, then it may imply that they are comfortable with the law and are willing to have it used on to them.  The problem could be if they would like to defect from the religion and are not allowed to (Chun, 26).  But as the law is now, when you convert to Christianity, you may be prosecuted for attacking the Islam and a death penalty is passed on you.

In conclusion, the sharia law should not be allowed because it denies democracy to the believers.   The international law on human right is compromised in the case where this law takes root and prosecutes a person who converts from Islam to other religion yet the conversion to the Islam is justified according to the sharia law.  There should be freedom of worship where there is free entry and exit in the Muslim religion like in Christianity.