Sharia law is already being practiced in western Sydney, with hundreds of religious divorces granted by imams, Muslim leaders have said.

A sheik and some Muslim leaders claimed that Sharia was already being used to end hundreds of marriages a year, News.com.au reports.

Sharia is also being used by imams in cases of business disputes and neighbourhood fights, they added.

Sheik Moussaab Legha, from the Islamic Welfare Centre in Lakemba, in Sydney, said panels of imams oversaw hundreds of Sharia divorces at a mosque in the city.

Sheik Legha said people who are divorced under Sharia by imams at the Greenacre mosque receive a certificate.

“It is after the family court. The religious way needs to be finalised,” he said.

“Most of the time it is like a normal courtroom. You have the imams on one table, you have the family of the woman, you listen to both [sides], to the problems.”

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