The Campaign Against Sharia

Cross Action News ^ | 12-16-08 | Deborah Weiss

[Victory111]

Sharia courts have operated in Britain for years. But previously they relied on voluntary adherence to rulings and their judgments were not legally enforceable. Enforcement of Sharia court judgments took effect one year after the Archbishop of Canterbury caused a major controversy by declaring that formal recognition of Sharia law “seemed inevitable.” Numerous politicians have expressed concern that the formal backing of Sharia courts marks the beginning of a parallel legal system based on Sharia law, such as exists in Lebanon. Dominic Grieve, shadow home secretary, made clear that he considers the court enforcement of Sharia judgments to be illegal. He emphatically declared that British law is absolute and must remain so. Others agree that Sharia judgments should not be encouraged or enforced by the British courts.

[RightOnline]

You mean.........they actually have to discuss this?????

[The_Reader_David]

Yes.

What people don’t understand here is that reports that the British legal system is ‘supporting Sharia courts’ are a sign of British resistance to creeping Islamization. There is not in fact any British law that gives special status to Sharia courts.

In the U.K., as in some of these United States, there are laws permitting parties to a civil dispute to submit to binding arbitration by a mutually agreed arbiter, whose decisions are enforcable by the courts. Orthodox Jews often take advantage of these laws to have disputes settle by a rabbinic court. In theory, Christians could have their bishop serve as a binding arbiter to decide matters in accord with canon law. So long as such a binding arbitration law exists, it would be impossible constitutionally in the the U.S. and politically in Britain to say, “you can have a mutually agreed arbiter, so long as it’s not a mullah or imam applying Sharia.”

Naturally, pious Muslims will wish to have disputes arbitrated in accord with Sharia, just as pious Jews will wish rabbinic law to be applied, and pious Christians ought to prefer canon law to civil law. Unfortunately, politicized Muslims want to use the to ‘normalize’ Sharia in the context of societies where heretofore Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence has been the uniform and unchallenged norm.