It was bound to happen sooner or later. The once-valiant residents of the UK are caving into the Muslim onslaught, as evidenced by this London Daily Mail article:
Sharia law SHOULD be used in Britain, says UK's top judge
By Steve Doughty
Last updated at 2:12 AM on 04th July 2008
The most senior judge in England yesterday gave his blessing to the use of sharia law to resolve disputes among Muslims.
Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips said that Islamic legal principles could be employed to deal with family and marital arguments and to regulate finance.
He declared: 'Those entering into a contractual agreement can agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law.,,,'
What's the catch?
1. Sharia is an integral part of the Muslim faith, and the Islamic population will be pushing for an all-or-nothing decision eventually.
2. This is bad news for women and members of religions other than Islam, who have few or no rights under Sharia.
3. Certain punishments allowable under Sharia are incompatible with English law, such as honor killings, amputating the right hands of thieves, and stoning of adulteresses or victims of rape.
4. Sharia law is strongly biased against "usury," which is bad news for the banking industry.
5. Islam does not recognize the concept of free will, so people can be coerced into contracts without assenting to or even understanding their terms. For instance, girls who have not even reached the age of puberty can be married off, as long as their relatives are agreeable to it.
6. There is no provision in English law for polygamy.
7. Sharia is not as strict in observing due process or safeguarding the rights of defendants as Anglo-American law. In many Muslim countries the defendant is presumed guilty, unless he can prove his innocence.
8. It is not in the best interest of the British government to have two contradictory legal systems, each with different methods of enforcing contracts and social standards, to confuse the public.
It's a sad day when I, who am not a trained lawyer, can demonstrate better legal reasoning than someone who should know better. More than one person on the "Little Green Footballs" blog have wondered if Muslims have found Lord Chief Justice Phillips' price.
UPDATE: Misha of the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler brought up this following news item that's sure to raise your blood pressure:
And it looks like they’re already well on their way. Two students were recently disciplined for refusing to pray to allah.
Two schoolboys were given detention after refusing to kneel down and ‘pray to Allah’ during a religious education lesson.
Parents were outraged that the two boys from year seven (11 to 12-year-olds) were punished for not wanting to take part in the practical demonstration of how Allah is worshipped.
They said forcing their children to take part in the exercise at Alsager High School, near Stoke-on-Trent - which included wearing Muslim headgear - was a breach of their human rights.
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