England Becomes A Sharia State

Last month, Britain made the momentous decision to give Sharia courts the same legal weight as the normal courts of the British legal system.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4749183.ece

For the lazy, "The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence. Rulings issued by a network of five sharia courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through the county courts or High Court. Previously, the rulings of sharia courts in Britain could not be enforced, and depended on voluntary compliance among Muslims."

It is telling that this was done so quietly, the majority of us Americans are unaware of it. I believe this could, in the long run, turn out to be the greatest threat to modern democracy.

Previously, I had looked upon England, with its large population of Muslem zealots, as walking a tightrope; between a paranoid clamp-down on foreigners, and tolerating them to the degree of total assimilation into Islamic culture. Now England has fallen off that tightrope, into the abyss of conciliation and weakness in the face of hostile religious fanatics.

How much stronger it makes the position of the radical Islamic clerics on the London streetcorners, to know that even an infidel government has been forced to accept the word of Allah as Law! Whatever the intentions of the liberals and multiculturalists in the British government that made this possible, in the minds of the Muslem community, that is the message they are sending.

In hindsight, I suppose I should have expected nothing less from the nation that brought us appeasement in the face of Nazism. Now, a little over half a century later, the British bring us appeasement in the face of militant Islam.

I can't help but wonder: is this it? Is this how modern democracy perishes: by infiltration from within by a foreign, undemocratic culture lacking any sort of civil rights? I don't know of any historical precedent for such a dual legal system, but one thing is certain: a society with a divided legal system cannot last long. I fear England will eventually become a state under Islamic religious law. And how long before the British precendent on Sharia law is adopted by other Western democracies? Will Sharia law replace Western law the world over? Will that be the way our civilization finally ends?

If anyone in Europe or the rest of the world is surprised at America's millitant additude towards the Middle East and Islam, perhaps they should realize it is partly in response to not just the Islamic extremists, but their own conciliation towards those same extremists. Personally, I am more dumbfounded at the British "answer" to the fanatics than the fanatics themselves: meeting all their demands by adopting their Dark Ages beliefs as law!?!

When are we going to stop being Neville Chamberland towards the Muslems and start being Charles the Hammer?

I'll let this video by Pat Condell deliver the closing speech. He's far more eloquent about this subject than I could ever be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dXGJ2rYdA&feature=user