Full Description
This volume of Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe covers the United Kingdom and consists of an annotated collection of legal documents affecting the status of Islam and Muslims. The legal texts are published in the original English language while the annotations and supporting material are in English. By legal documents are meant the texts of legislation, including relevant secondary legislation, as well as significant court decisions. Each legal text is preceded by an introduction describing the historical, political and legal circumstances of its adoption, plus a short paragraph summarising its content. The focus of the collection is on the religious dimensions of being Muslim in Europe, i.e. on individuals' access to practise their religious obligations and on the ability to organise and manifest their religious life.
Contents
Foreword by the Editors
General Introduction
1 Muslims in Britain—a demographic picture
2 Distinctive features of British legal systems
3 The Islamic law or Shari'a
4 Material covered in this volume
1 Status of religious communities
1 The Human Rights Act 1998 and European Convention on Human Rights
2 Registration of places of worship
3 Charity law
4 Muslim litigants in courts and Islamophobia
2 Relations between the State and Islam
1 Islamic extremism colours the direction of state policy
2 Electoral law
3 State Support for Islamic Religious Communities
1 Charities
2 Taxation benefits for registered religious buildings
4 Anti-discrimination law
1 Frequently used provisions of the Equality Act 2010
2 The public sector equality duty
5 Mosques and Prayer
1 Mosques
2 Prayer
6 Burials and Cemeteries
7 Education
1 Non-discrimination and human rights provisions applicable to schooling
2 Separate provision for the sexes
3 Religious education
4 Religious worship
5 Withdrawal from religious education and worship
6 Teachers
7 Relationships and sex education
8 Further and Higher (Tertiary) Education
9 Islamic Chaplaincy in Public Institutions
10 Employment and Social Law
1 Anti-discrimination provisions on employment
2 Exceptions to the reach of anti-discrimination law
3 Proselytism in the workplace
11 Islamic Slaughter and Food Regulation
1 Ritual Slaughter
2 Diet and fasting
12 Islamic Goods and Services
1 Equality legislation in the provision of services
2 Islamic finance
13 Islamic Dress
1 Islamic dress under anti-discrimination law
2 Islamic dress under Article 9 of the ECHR
14 Criminal Law
1 Public order offences
2 Religiously aggravated offences
3 Terrorism offences
4 Forced marriage offences
5 Female genital mutilation offences
6 Conscientious objection
15 Family law
1 Private international law
2 Marriage and divorce
3 Children
Bibliography
Index
