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OP - April 11, 2015, 05:13 PM

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Well out of sight, in her pleasant flat in Komotini, Thrace, in north-eastern Greece, Chatitze Molla Sali is speaking quietly. At times she is barely audible. It’s the voice of a tired 65-year-old, who for many years “lowered her gaze and accepted everything”, as she puts it. But she livens up at any mention of her new determination. She is the first woman from Greece’s Muslim minority to have taken a case to the European court of human rights, disputing a ruling based on sharia law that stripped her of part of her inheritance.

When her husband died in March 2008, he left her all his possessions in a will certified by a Greek solicitor. His family promptly disputed the legacy, complaining to the local mufti that under sharia Muslims are not allowed to make a will. Sali appealed to the civil courts, which endorsed her claim. But in October 2013 Greece’s supreme court ruled that matters of inheritance involving members of the Muslim minority must be settled by the mufti, as required by sharia law...

Read on: http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/apr/10/sharia-greece-human-rights-inheritance-law

This sounds like a legacy of the Ottoman millet system. I lived in Greece for a while and I had no idea this applied.

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Reply #1 - April 11, 2015, 07:09 PM

Good luck to her.

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Reply #2 - April 14, 2015, 08:57 AM

Quote from: zeca on April 11, 2015, 05:13 PM
Read on: http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/apr/10/sharia-greece-human-rights-inheritance-law

This sounds like a legacy of the Ottoman millet system. I lived in Greece for a while and I had no idea this applied.

WTF??? And I thought after 1400 years, Greeks are fed up with Islam!!!
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Reply #3 - April 20, 2015, 10:45 PM

The entirely predictable result of having two parallel legal systems that sometimes conflict with one another.

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Reply #4 - April 20, 2015, 11:27 PM

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“I was overwhelmed,” Sali admits. “But I decided to fight and take the matter to the European Court of Human Rights. I’m a Greek citizen and Europe must uphold my rights.”

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Sali’s religious faith is unshaken and she still sees the mufti as her spiritual father. But she disputes his right to lay down the law.

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