U.K.-SCOTLAND: SHARI'AH FOR ALL?!?!?

If only Muslim law was available for all

OUTRAGE has followed a BBC Radio 4 programme which claimed that secret Muslim courts imposing sharia law are operating in most cities in Britain.

Perhaps that's not surprising. What most of us know about sharia law could be written on the back of a postage stamp and comes from snatched, fuzzy clips of people being stoned to death for adultery, having limbs lopped off for theft or being decapitated for contravention of religious custom . . . not exactly the sort of thing we expect in Edinburgh - or even Glasgow.

Quietly and "under the radar", it is alleged, the Government has already accepted some aspects of sharia law to accommodate Muslim communities . . . for example the Treasury allows for the sharia principle of interest-free loans and mortgages.

But it's the unofficial criminal courts that have some politicians, including the Tory spokesman for homeland security Patrick Mercer, demanding a crackdown and insisting that anyone who wants to live under sharia law should ship out to live in a Muslim country.

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The full story is available only in the print edition of the paper...The story is a response to the recent article(s) concerning the waning British law and how the void is being filled by islamic law (shari'ah) - - - See Link #2 under Pertinent Links...



Pertinent Links:

1) If only Muslim law was available for all

2) Original post concerning the waning of British Law