Poll reveals 40pc of Muslims want sharia law in UK

Telegraph ^ | February 19 2006 | Patrick Hennessy and Melissa Kite

[jmc1969]

Four out of 10 British Muslims want sharia law introduced into parts of the country, a survey reveals today.

The ICM opinion poll also indicates that a fifth have sympathy with the "feelings and motives" of the suicide bombers who attacked London last July 7, killing 52 people, although 99 per cent thought the bombers were wrong to carry out the atrocity.

Islamic law is used in large parts of the Middle East, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, and is enforced by religious police. Special courts can hand down harsh punishments which can include stoning and amputation.

Forty per cent of the British Muslims surveyed said they backed introducing sharia in parts of Britain, while 41 per cent opposed it. Twenty per cent felt sympathy with the July 7 bombers' motives, and 75 per cent did not. One per cent felt the attacks were "right".

Half of the 500 people surveyed said relations between white Britons and Muslims were getting worse. Only just over half thought the conviction of the cleric Abu Hamza for incitement to murder and race hatred was fair.

Mr Khan, the MP for Tooting, said: "We must redouble our efforts to bring Muslims on board with the mainstream community. For all the efforts made since last July, things do not have appear to have got better."

A spokesman for Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, said: "It is critically important to ensure that Muslims, and all faiths, feel part of modern British society. Today's survey indicates we still have a long way to go… [but] we are committed to working with all faiths to ensure we achieve that end."

[Gordongekko909]

Ignignoct says: "I hope they can see this, because I'm doing it as hard as I can."

[Izzy Dunne]

the MP for Tooting

OK.

[Edit35]

I'd like the law of the American West applied in Europe, Asia, and much of the world.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The other 60 % only want to kill or enslave the humans in England.

[goldstategop]

They seek to impose their values on England. The likes of them ought to expelled but it will never happen. Anyway, in 50 years time, there will be too few native Britons around to worry about the imposition of Sharia on the Isles.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[ncountylee]

"We must redouble our efforts to bring Muslims on board with the mainstream community."

Should be:

"Muslims must redouble their efforts to bring themselves on board with the mainstream community."

[cripplecreek]

I wonder how many of that 40% were women voting for sharia law out of fear of their husbands fathers and brothers.

[MRMEAN]

They won't do it...but the Brits and the rest of Europe must kick out the vast majority of their Muslims if they want their civilizations to survive in real sense...but they won't do it. What were they thinking by allowing themselves to be reverse colonized by masses of those who they have nothing,racially, culturally, religiously, or in terms of values, in common?

Of course we are allowing ourselves to be colonized by Mexico...

[G Larry]

Uh... Good!
Now we know how many need to leave!

[Man50D]

Forty per cent of the British Muslims surveyed said they backed introducing sharia in parts of Britain, while 41 per cent opposed it. Twenty per cent felt sympathy with the July 7 bombers' motives, and 75 per cent did not. One per cent felt the attacks were "right".

One very good reason not to trust this poll Taqiyya and kitman: The role of Deception in Islamic terrorism

Mr Khan, the MP for Tooting, said: "We must redouble our efforts to bring Muslims on board with the mainstream community. For all the efforts made since last July, things do not have appear to have got better."

Mr. Khan needs to change his thinking. Islamic Scholar Warns U.S. of 'Two-Faced' Muslims

[putupjob]

Is everyone sick of these people yet?

[WayneS]

If they like Islamic law why don't they live in an Islamic country?


I know, I know... they DO live in an Islamic country.

[winner3000]

Mexicans somehow don't seem to be nearly as big a problem...

[Uncle Vlad]

They seek to impose their values on England.

And we use the word "values" here loosely...

[DManA]

Sharia law = slavery for non-Muslims.

[Uncle Vlad]

Is everyone sick of these people yet?

Um...yeah. I'm beginning to think the problem with Islam is...Islam.

[w1andsodidwe]

Sharia law = slavery for non-Muslims.

Sharia law = slavery for Women

[Gordongekko909]

We've got plenty of them in Louisiana right now. And, well, we were already under a civil code system, so it kinda works.

[BW2221]

I hate to remind you, but the number of Muslims coming to the U.S. continues to climb. We're not in that much better shape than the Brits, just on a delayed schedule.