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To: IWontSubmit

Someone needs to educate May hard and fast on Sharia Law.


15 posted on 07/20/2016 11:57:14 AM PDT by amihow (l8)
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To: amihow; IWontSubmit
Someone needs to educate May hard and fast on Sharia Law.

NO, they don't. This idea that May 'supports Sharia' is politically motivated spin. The comments she made were in the context of the fact that she had just had the guts to set up an inquiry into so-called 'Sharia Courts' in the UK. She was taking steps to lessen their potential impact. The whole thrust of what she was saying was that such bodies could only have any validity in cases where their rulings are entirely consistent with British law - that Britain has one common law and no body can be set up to make decisions contrary to it.

Many of the bodies in question already follow that principle - the main issue they address is divorce and part of the divorce process involves negotiation and mediation. People have the right to use any mediators they choose and many British Muslims choose mediators who apply Sharia principles and British statute law on divorce at the same time, to come up with a mediated settlement that meets British legal standards and is consistent with the religion. In any case where there is a conflict, British law supersedes religious law. May's comments were simply reassuring people that that would still be permitted - her review was intended to find cases where that rule is being broken, not where it is being followed.

It actually really worries me to see one of the few times a British politician has stood up to the actions of the radical Islamists and told them they need to stay in line being spun into some idea that she supports them.

16 posted on 07/20/2016 2:13:21 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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