Overview

• At the UN, President Donald Trump said London "wants to go to Sharia law," prompting Mayor Sadiq Khan to condemn the remark as racist and Islamophobic.
• A 2017 Home Office review estimated about 85 Sharia councils operate in the UK, with London a hub; their guidance covers family or financial matters and has no force in English law.
• A 2018 Home Office review and a 2020 House of Commons Library report documented practices in some councils that disadvantage women, including pressure to remain in marriages or pay for divorces.
• In the Tafida Raqeeb life-support case, a High Court judge noted having "the benefit of a fatwa" as context but said it was not a deciding factor.
• After protester Hamit Coskun burned a Quran in London, he was convicted of a public order offence while the man who slashed him, Moussa Kadri, received a suspended sentence, drawing free speech concerns from campaigners.