This passage is problematic:
El-badawi said the tribunal follows Sharia law to resolve civil disputes in family and business matters. He said they also resolve workplace disputes.
In matters of divorce, El-badawi said that “while participation in the tribunal is voluntary, a married couple cannot be considered divorced by the Islamic community unless it is granted by the tribunal.” He compared their divorce, known as “Talaq,” as something similar to the Catholic practice of annulment in that the church does not recognize civil divorce proceedings as ending a marriage.
That means that -according to him- the 'religious community' (who? the most observant?) gives precedence to religious law over civil law. That means he proudly says his 'religious community' doesn't buy the Constitution that stipulates separation of Church and State.
As fundamentalist Christian Texans don't buy the Constitution that stipulates separation of Church and State when they manage to squeeze in compulsory religious study by distorting the text of a bill initially saying that public schools
may offer the literary study of religious texts.
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