[monkeywrench]

The next step for them is to say something like, "Your laws are not suitable for islam, we need to go by our own laws. But, don't worry, we only want this for islamics, everyone else is exempt.".

The next step, when they have majority is, "You all need to follow sharia." That's when the bloodshed and bombings start. They never seem to deviate from this scenario.

[onedoug]

Sortta' like the route to gay marriage.

If sharia includes Islamism, it's gotta' go.

[BobL]

"The next step, when they have majority is, 'You all need to follow sharia.'"

That really sounds like northern Nigeria.

My thoughts were a bit different. In a short story that I wrote, the French government agrees to a moderate Muslim mayor's request that a European version of Sharia be allowed. Rather than cutting off your hand for shoplifting, you immobilize it for a couple of months in locking metal cast. Needless to say, the moderate Muslim then loses a later election, and a more extreme (mainstream, if you will) Muslim takes over, and starts chopping off hands.

That's how they'll do it.

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Incremental steps. They have begun.