Don't be daft.
You don't like my post: (1) you can enter into a contract with Jim Rob to pay him to ban me from his private site due to Masonic bylaws or something, or (2) you can hand a silver dollar to a hit man and forma verbal contract to have me killed Creole style.
(1) is legal in America and Britian....(2) is not.
Both are contracts among private citizens, and they can be defined by whatever logic/rules/religion/mysticism you want. But they do not supercede the law of the land.
"It's a foot in the door."
Hello? If people in British society are IN BRITAIN and willing to enter such a ridiculous contract (for 'forced' marriage, tithes for mosques, whatever***) then THEIR WHOLE BODY IS IN THE DOOR....
For crying out loud, freedom to choose is a two-way street. And people can choose to give up lots of their freedoms voluntarily.
What do you want? A chief justice coming out and saying that any voluntary contract for payment which excludes interest and appears to be drafted similar to rules of Islam is illegal? What next? Voluntary direct deposit authorizations to the Anglican church are also illegal?
*** There was an identical hubbub in an Arlington, Texas mosque recently about a mooslimb divorce settlement where the woman had signed an islamic pre-nup which said if she filed she'd get nothing. She admitted that she had entered into it unforced, so the judge upheld the prenup. I don't have time to look for the link....it's under Islamic Society of Arlington Texas.
Happy 4th! Enjoy our Republic of freedom for even peolpe we don't like to do dumb things!!!!
So do kids voluntarily enter into an agreement with Muslim parents to live under Sharia law? Settling family disputes inevitably involves children who have no say in their situation. What you suggest is akin to allowing people to sell themselves into slavery. There are some things you cannot agree to under contract and maintain a legal system based on western values.
Just because some elites are willing to accept this, there is no evidence that the British people as a whole are willing to commit cultural suicide in this way. Muslims are only about 2% of the population of Britain. And as I pointed out in my post above there is a strong conservative/nationalist backlash to this crap building up. That's a big part of why the conservatives are ahead by 20% in the polls, and Labor is stalling on holding elections.