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Originally Posted by x-factor
Excerpted from an article in the Columbia Law Review:
Religious tribunals in the United States regularly adjudicate cases in the same manner as conventional arbitrations. Both federal and state courts enforce religious tribunal decisions under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) or under state statutes modeled on the Uniform Arbitration Act (UAA), thereby transforming the decisions into binding legal judgments. In light of that result, the FAA and UAA provide a statutory standard of review that ensures that a minimum level of due process has been followed.
Like I said, Orthodox Jews, the Amish, and other groups do it all the time.
Death threats as coercion is not unique to Islamic divorces. Besides, thats a criminal issue and out of bounds for the policy we're discussing.
That Muslims don't always practice the ideal version Islam should not come as a shock any more than the existence of hypocrite Christians. However, there do exist well-meaning law-abiding Muslims in this world. Especially here in America where so many Muslims come to practice their faith free of the ethnic/tribal/cultural garbage of the Arab world.
There's a valid case for outlawing religious arbitrations, but if you want to make that case you better be prepared to enforce it equally across all religions.
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Hey, how did that work out for the Branch Davidians, or Warren Jeffs?
TR
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