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Posted on 08/15/2006 11:09:47 AM PDT by Indomitable_Briton
Muslim leaders summoned to talks with the Government on tackling extremism in their midst called for public holidays to mark their religious festivals.
The Whitehall meeting was set up in response to last week's airline bomb plot discovery.
Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly had prepared an uncompromising message on the need to tackle dangerous radicalism.
But, in what she admitted were 'sharp' exchanges, some senior Muslim figures turned the tables yesterday and made a series of demands which also included the introduction of Sharia law for family matters.
Dr Syed Aziz Pasha, secretary general of the Union of Muslim Organisations of the UK and Ireland, said: 'We told her if you give us religious rights, we will be in a better position to convince young people that they are being treated equally along with other citizens.'
Dr Pasha said Miss Kelly had agreed to look at the proposals, though her spokesman insisted later that she did not favour any legal change which would give 'special treatment' for the Muslim community.
Some of the 30 moderate Muslim leaders at the meeting told Miss Kelly that important days in their two main religious festivals - Ramadan and Eid-ul-Adha - should be made public holidays for followers of the faith.
Sharia law, which is practised in large parts of the Middle East, should also be introduced in Britain, they argued. While it specifies stonings and amputations as routine punishments for crimes, Dr Pasha said he wanted it only for family affairs.
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What was the advice that Sam Kinneson gave to the starving Ethoipians? Move where the food is. If any British Muslims want Sharia law, they should move where the Sharia is.
Worked for the French. :)
Sounds like they want to widen the cultural divide instead of bridging it.
This is screwed up.
these guys are bonkers and dangerous,
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These guys got some real nerve!
Unreal!
Sick, sick, sick...
I'd give 'em all a "concession" - a one-way ticket back to
whatever Islamic $hithole they crawled out of. Then they
can have their "sharia law" all they want.
Concessions? Fine..
How about taxpayer funding to buy them tickets and send them to a locale more in tune with their expectations when it comes to public holidays and such.. for starters.
Tell them they can go back where they came from and practice all the Sharia law they want.
Just go back to treating women like cattle.
A proper message would have been sent to Britain's Muslim community by taking the proponents of such measures outside having them hung in public.
I hope the British government isn't seriously considering "concessions"?
It is eventually come down to profiling them, and deporting them. Failure to do so will insure that they root and grow.
Let me get this straight -- all the people who have been killed, all the children maimed and left orphans, all the infrastructure damage, all the money spent to rebuild, all the misery, pain and heartache was over HOLIDAYS and TIME OFF FROM WORK????
It was over how you can live your private life no matter what the public laws might be. Divorce is legal in the U.S.A., but that doesn't mean I have to get one. So people have to die because Islam can't get a law on the books for everyone???
THIS IS NUTS!
The reply should be the same as what the Australia PM said "there is only one law (Australian common law) and if you don't like it you can leave".
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