An Uncomfortable Truth

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THEY’RE HERE
_An Uncomfortable Truth_

SHARIAH COURTS IN AMERICA
WE’RE SLEEPWALKING TOWARD BRITAIN’S OUTCOME, OR WORSE

Peter McIlvenna | The Washington Times
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| December 1, 2025

They are not coming. They are already here.

Across the United States, Islamic arbitration bodies quietly handle
hundreds of family law cases each year — marriage, divorce, custody,
inheritance — behind closed doors, with no transcripts, no appeals
and no public oversight. All-male panels apply traditional Shariah
rules to 21st-century American women and children.

The Islamic Tribunal of Dallas was founded in 2014 as a “volunteer
mediation service.” By 2024, it was deciding roughly 300 cases
annually in mosque back rooms and law offices. The panel of three or
four male scholars, trained at institutions such as Al-Azhar and
Omdurman, openly follows rules in which a woman’s testimony is worth
half a man’s in financial and inheritance matters. Women report
being pressured to accept religious divorces that strip them of their
mahr (dowry) and leave them financially devastated.

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Last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott launched a full investigation,
calling it a “rival court system” that has no place in America. It
was the first time a prominent U.S. official said publicly what
critics had warned about for years.

The North American Islamic Trust
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owns title to 300 to 325 U.S. mosques, more than 11% of the U.S.
total. When disputes arise inside those mosques — divorces, estates,
leadership fights — local trust-affiliated imams become the de facto
judges. There is no signed arbitration agreement, no neutral venue, no
American lawyer reviewing decisions for compliance with U.S. law.
Daughters routinely receive half the inheritance of their brothers, as
prescribed in Surah An-Nisa. Wives are told that taking the case to a
“kafir” (“infidel”) court is forbidden.

The real enforcement is social ostracism: loss of your family, your
children’s place in the community, your entire support network.
Because these rulings stay outside the Federal Arbitration Act,
secular courts hardly ever see the paperwork — or the victims.

The Ismaili Conciliation and Arbitration Board was established in 1986
by the Aga Khan. It has a written constitution, trained mediators
(some Western-educated lawyers) and public commitments to gender
equality. Yet proceedings remain strictly confidential, rulings are
never published, and former members, especially women in transnational
marriages, describe being steered toward settlements far weaker than
any U.S. family court would allow. The pressure is polite but
relentless: Accept less or risk exile from the tight-knit global
Ismaili community you were born into.

In 1982, Britain permitted its first Shariah council as a gesture of
multicultural respect. Today, at least 85 such councils handle
hundreds of cases yearly. More than 90% of cases are brought by women
trapped in unregistered religious marriages who speak little English
and fear their families. Inside the councils, they are told to return
to abusive husbands, forfeit dowries or accept that their testimony is
worth half that of a man.

A 2018 Home Office review finally acknowledged that these bodies
operate as a parallel legal system, subjecting thousands of British
women to medieval rules. Successive governments ignored the problem
for decades; now, they are scrambling to regain control.

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America is following the same script, only faster. Legal Muslim
immigration to the U.S. has exceeded 100,000 annually for more than a
decade, supplemented by illegal crossings and asylum claims. Every new
mosque and enclave strengthens the infrastructure for private Islamic
justice. The same soothing arguments that paralyzed Britain —
“It’s voluntary” and “Secular courts are always available”
— are repeated here by academics and interfaith groups.

Texas is the only state sounding the alarm this year. The rest of the
country is sleepwalking toward the British outcome, or worse. Once
entire neighborhoods effectively live under a parallel legal order
that treats women as second-class citizens, reversing it peacefully
becomes nearly impossible.

This is not fearmongering; it is pattern recognition. Britain waited
40 years and ended up with 85 Shariah councils. America has the same
ingredients, faster demographic change and even less political will to
act.

The parallel system is already growing. The only question left is
whether we still have the courage to stop it before “voluntary”
becomes permanent.

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