[SECURE AMERICA]

(In his speech at an East London mosque, Lord Phillips said Muslims in Britain could use Islamic legal principles as long as punishments - and divorce rulings - comply with English law. Sharia law does not comply with English law. It is a law unto itself)

In essecense this socialist judge tries to have his cake and eat it too and in the end really says nothing. Since Sharia Law trumps all law in the minds of these people and in no way is equal or fair or moral or right then it can not comply with existing English law. More to the point if it did then why use it and not the Englsih law?

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

In essecense this socialist judge tries to have his cake and eat it too and in the end really says nothing.

His opinion was just nuanced.

[xkaydet65]

Interesting decision, but I wonder the consequences. In the UK a Catholic cannot be Prime Ministe because of the role the PM plays in the CoE. Is that now no longer operable. Also can a Catholic husband go to an ecclesiastical court and deny his wife either an abortion or divorce and have this denial enforced by the state?

By saying the rulings must comply with English Law the High Court has made a ruling with no effect. In NY the state recognizes Catholic annullments and the rulings of Orthodox Jewish courts ( I forgot their name) as long as their rulings do not conflict with the Laws of the State of NY.No one can say the Church or the Orthodox community are outside the laws of NY. Until a judge, in a western nation, gives Sharia jusrisdiction regardless of the civil law, these decisions are a topic for discussion and venting but little more.

[Cindy]

“More to the point if it did then why use it and not the Englsih law?”

OPINION: I have absolutely no idea what the judge was thinking and/or if he was thinking at all.

There is never a good reason to use Sharia (shariah) law in a civilized society.