Funnier with cats.
Are the pols in UK really this dumb?
Posted on 06/30/2009 12:30:45 PM PDT by mojito
Dozens of Islamic courts operating in the United Kingdom are "seriously out of step with trends in Western legislation," according to a report published by London think tank Civitas on Monday.
Denis MacEoin, author of the Civitas report "Shari'a Law or One Law For All?" wrote that Shari'a rulings contained great potential for controversy and could involve acts contrary to UK legal norms and human rights legislation.
According to the report, Shari'a courts should not be recognized under Britain's 1996 Arbitration Act, as they claim authority over the private lives of individuals in a way that is contrary to the British tradition....
In the study, MacEoin reproduces a range of fatwas issued by popular fatwa Web sites, run out of or accessed through mosques in the UK, and in some cases, even from UK Muslim schools. According to MacEoin, the courts operate largely out of mosques and are closed to independent observers. Thus, it is extremely difficult to find out what goes on in them.
Last year, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, said a recognized role for Shari'a law in Britain seemed "unavoidable," and the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Philips, who stepped down last October, said there was no reason why decisions made on Shari'a principles should not be recognized by the national courts.
Meanwhile, in an article in July's current affairs magazine Standpoint, Center for Social Cohesion (CSC) researcher Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens has revealed how the British government is actively promoting a crucial aspect of the sharia program.
According to the article, the British government is set to co-sponsor two events later this year which will promote sharia finance. Sharia banking is one of the essential cogs of the sharia system."
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Except Western civilization: nothing there but racism, sexism and colonialism.
The UK is sloooooooowwwwwww....
Captain Obvious needs to visit this thread, too.
Paging Captain Obvious
Damn, I wanted to post that.
For once I miss the Captain Obvious pic!
Maybe it’s just too obvious.
Sharia Law discriminates against non-muslims. It is also theocratically based. Therefore it is incompatible with Western Civilization.
Frankly, it is incompatible with civilization. There are non-muslims living in muslim controlled nations as well.
It’s needed...consider who has come out FOR Sharia Law in the UK (Head of the Anglican Church, for one).
There's no basis for it.
You can go on The People's Court with Judge Wopner too and agree to forgo any genuine legal proceedings. Doesn't mean that it should be recognized by the national courts.
You’d think it would be obvious — that barbarians coming to the West need to adopt Western ways.
Not the other way around.
Are the pols in UK really this dumb?
“UK study: Shari’a courts ‘incompatible’ (with Western Law, Civilization)”
It then follows that Western Civilization and Law must be abandoned in the name of multiculturalism and diversity.
Well, duh.
Islam was created by Satan to vex and bullyrag Christianty. Of course it is out of step with everything good.
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