The highest court in Britain has now ruled that Islamic Sharia laws can usurp English law in localized Muslim communities.
This is no insignificant ruling. In fact, this is appalling on so many fronts. This is no longer just the misplaced ideals of the "enlightened" Archbishop of Canterbury. Now it carries the weight of law; just not English law!
On the front line of course, are Islamic women, for whom the dreams of equality and freedom have just been dealt a setback of centuries in what is supposed to be one of the brightest and longest burning lights of freedom in Europe. They will receive the brunt of this travesty from a religion that sees them as vastly unequal. But England itself is going to suffer when it starts letting immigrant groups import their own law and basically "opt-out" of English law when it goes against their customs.
The country that gave us the Magna Carta, now cannot even find the courage and wisdom in preserving it's own principles. What folly! A country that has seen it's great empire shrink to almost nothing but it's own little home field will now allow decay to form from within. It's just a matter of time.
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Maybe so....
But I cannot help but observe that there are court rulings and there are...people who may or may not follow them.
In a discreet manner of nonfollowing, of course.
You can just push a free people so much, so far.
I am reminded of court rulings here re busing of suburban school kids into the inner city.
It just didn't work, courts be damned.
We'll see about the UK.
These are difficult times for the good and the old...
We'll see...
Say a prayer for Britain, for the good British people, of whatever race.
They have come thru a lot.
I would not be in a hurry to belive that courts have...shall I say, the WHOLE say on how things will be, on how they will turn out.
We have juries who will not convict because the jurists do not like the law.
We'll see if the British public gets sufficiently aroused.
After all, the British are NOT THE FRENCH.
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