Sharia Law in the UK

“Adoption of Islamic Sharia law in Britain is now unavoidable”, says Archbishop of Canterbury

Britain has gone down the slippery slope. “Even Gods own elect will be deceived”

By de Andréa

February 11, 2008 The Archbishop of Canterbury has recently said that “the adoption of Islamic Sharia law in the UK is unavoidable and that it would help introduce social cohesion”

The following is a good example of where the United States is headed in the near future. Remember there is no compromise with Sharia law in Islam. Moreover, Great Britain will soon be part of the Nation of Islam.

When you read this article, pay particular attention to the words and statements, they are either lies, ignorance, or a gross understatement.

Dr Rowan Williams told BBC Radio that “the UK has to face up to the fact that its Islamic citizens do not relate to the British legal system.”

Muslims shouldn’t have to choose
“If a Muslim has a marital dispute or financial matters he should be able to deal with them in a Sharia court.” Rowan added”Muslims should not have to choose between the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty".

Dr Williams said “here was a place for finding a constructive accommodation in areas such as marriage - allowing Muslim men to marry more than one wife and to avoid Western divorce proceedings. Other religions enjoyed such tolerance of their own laws, he pointed out, but stressed that it should never be allowed to take precedence over an individual's rights as a citizen. He said it would also require a change in perception of what Sharia involved beyond the "inhumanity" of extreme punishments and attitudes to women seen in some Islamic states”.

Dr Williams said, "It seems unavoidable, and as a matter of fact, certain conditions of Sharia are already recognized in our society and under our law, so it is not as if we are bringing in an alien system.”

"We already have in this country a number of situations in which the internal law of religious communities is recognized by the law of the land as justifying conscientious objections in certain circumstances.” He added, "There is a place for finding what would be a constructive accommodation with some aspects of Muslim law as we already do with aspects of other kinds of religious law.”

were condemned today by senior Tory MP Peter Luff, who said: "This is a very dangerous route which we should not go down. You cannot be a little bit pregnant. You cannot have a little bit of Sharia law. "We should not start introducing new different legal systems alongside ours."

But the Archbishop defended his position saying “people needed to look at Islamic law with a clear eye."

"Nobody in their right mind would want to see in this country, the kind of inhumanity that has sometimes been associated with the practice of the law in some Islamic states: the extreme punishments, the attitudes to women."
What about human rights

"But I do not think we should instantly spring to the conclusion that the whole of that world of jurisprudence and practice is somehow monstrously incompatible with human rights just because it doesn't immediately fit with how we understand it."

Dr Williams said “Orthodox Jewish courts already operated in the UK, and anti-abortion views of Catholics and other Christians were accommodated within the law".

He said “the issue of whether Catholic adoption agencies would be forced under equality laws to accept gay parents showed there was confusion on the matter.”

"The principle that there is only one law for everybody is an important pillar of our social identity as a Western democracy. But I think it is a misunderstanding to suppose that people don't have other affiliations, other loyalties which shape and dictate how they behave in society and that the law needs to take some account of that."

He said he “accepted people might be surprised by his call but urged them to consider the wider question. What we don't want is a stand-off where the law squares up to people's religious consciences, on something like abortion or indeed by forcing a vote on some aspects of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill in the Commons. We don't either want a situation where, because there's no legal way of monitoring what communities do, making them part of the public process, people do what they like in private in such a way that it becomes another way of intensifying oppression within a community."

”Sharia law was originally more enlightened in its attitude to women than other legal systems; he pointed out, but did now have to be brought up to date. But you have to translate that into a setting where that whole area of the rights and liberties of women has moved on. The principle and the vision which animates the whole Islamic legal provision needs changing."

Responding to comments by one of his senior bishops that “Islamic extremism was creating communities with no-go areas for non-Muslims”, he said it was "not at all the case that we have absolute social exclusion. But we do have a lot of social suspicion, a lot of distance and we just have to go on working at how that shared citizenship comes through."

The Bishop of Rochester, The Rt Rev Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, said last month that “non-Muslims faced a hostile reception in places dominated by the ideology of Islam”.

Dr Williams said the use of the phrase "no-go areas had sparked controversy because it reminded people of Northern Ireland. I don't think that was at all what was intended; I think it was meant to point to the silo problem, the sense of communities not communicating with each other. Many Muslims would say that they feel bits of British society are no-go areas for them."

Mohammed Shafiq, director of the Ramadan Foundation, welcomed the comments.“These comments further underline the attempts by both our great faiths to build respect and tolerance.”

"We are however disappointed that the Archbishop of Canterbury was silent when Mr Nazir-Ali was promoting intolerance and lying about no-go areas for Christians in the UK by Muslim extremists”

"Unless he speaks out against this intolerance, Muslims will take his silence as authorization and support for such comments.”

"The Ramadan Foundation will continue to work with the Church of England to build understanding and respect for our two communities."

Dr Williams's comments are likely to fuel the debate over multiculturalism in the UK.But he insists that “Sharia law needs to be better understood.”
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THE BOTTOM LINE: “Sharia law needs to be better understood”. That is an extreme understatement. In reading this, I recognized just how ignorant Europe has become, not only of Islam but also of their own history. Moreover, it causes me to shudder when I think that we in America will soon be facing this same destructive character in the very same way.

This is where the road of tolerance, multiculturalism, compromise, accommodation, and political correctness leads. By watching Europe, one is looking straight down the road that leads to “The Nation if Islam” Moreover America has also turned onto this same road. This road leads to the same place it has lead to, in every country where Muslims have been allowed to infiltrate. Islam does not assimilate, it becomes part of nothing, Islam does not cohabitate, and Islam must be the habitat. The agenda of Islam; is the world of Islam.

Dr. Williams’s talks about changing Islam: This makes me crazy. How can anyone with a Doctorate be so ignorant? But then I am reminded, that there is more to this, than just plain ignorance, there is deception. A very powerful deception known in Arabic as the Taqiya or Taqiyyah’ depending on what version or translation of the Koran or Quran one is reading. Some English translations are so deceptive it is not even included. This deception is what is deceiving the world. Moreover, unless all Muslims rise up and denounce all the canons of Islam and the Jihad that they are subjected to; Islam will not change; NOT EVER…

This deception becomes increasingly powerful, if one is not grounded in the truth, or if one has no values or is not cognizant of an opposing power. You see for every evil there is a good, for every down there is an up, for every left there is a right. Islam is diametrically opposed to everything the west enjoys, God given freedom, liberty, joy, love, charity, and life. A simpler way would be to say that Islam is opposed to everything… period…

One must understand, Islam does not compromise, Islam does not assimilate, Islam is all encompassing, Islam is not just a religion, Islam is, an oppressive theocracy and Islam lies. Islam deceives until it is too late, it will take over the very soul and spirit of a country. Moreover, like a cancer, if allowed to go unchecked and unabated, it will be all consuming.

Sometimes I am absolutely stunned by the ignorance of the so-called leaders of the U.K. But then it seems that just as in the U.S. and the rest of Europe the farther up the ladder one is, the more out of touch with reality one becomes. It must have something to do with being so far removed from what is actually going on down here on the ground. Or maybe one really cannot see; the forest for the trees…

de Andréa