This makes my skin crawl, not because I have a problem with Muslims....not at all....but because I cannot stand the idea of the state mixing with any church...guaranteed to be a recipe for carnage, whoever it involves. Religion and State should not be mixed...ever, in my opinion. The only way to ensure total religious freedom for all the citizens of any country is to make sure that the Government is as religiously and spiritually neutral as possible and that all beliefs hold the same weight of legal rights. Sharia law, Pagan law, Christian or Jewish law....none of them should be involved in a legal system.

Cait

Really, guys, you're getting your "information" from the Daily Mail again. I might as well throw-up and let your guys haruspex it - you'll probably be closer to the truth. The tabloids just want you to be afraid of everyone and everything.

Daily Mail
Wes Streeting, president of the National Union of Students, branded the study as 'disgusting' saying the results only served as a 'reflection of the biases and prejudices of a right-wing think tank – not the views of Muslim students across Britain.'

He added: 'Only 632 Muslim students were asked vague and misleading questions, and their answers were wilfully misinterpreted.'

Sounds about right. The Daily Mail is one of the worst papers for propaganda and lies, not to mention doom & gloom.

The Daily Mail? rofl...

Dan, I know you're a christian fundie and all, but come on, you're not even trying to find a source that will be taken seriously.

Originally posted by Terran Blue
The Daily Mail? rofl...

Dan, I know you're a christian fundie and all, but come on, you're not even trying to find a source that will be taken seriously.

Personal attacks? man, I thought you of all people would be above some thing like that.

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I wonder if you asked the same poll: Would you kill for Jesus? What the results would be.

Amatrine, Shuck and Dan...some excellent points made here...and would Christians kill for Jesus...?

Would they *want* to? Would pagans kill? Jews? Buddhists? I doubt it, no matter how fundamental their beliefs, although I recognise that there are always exception. Either way...no religion or spiritual belief can be taken into law without disasterous consequences for our human rights and civil liberites. Shucks point about us sleepwalking into this has to be taken as a wakeup call, as this is what will happen if we're not vigilant. Suddenly we will wake up with it as a reality.

I MUST stress....this is *not* anti Muslim sentiment here....anti-fundamentalist-of-any-religion perhaps, and I would be as fired up if we were talking about imposing Jewish or Pagan Law, even although the latter is my own.

I feel that this must be approached from a human point of view and not a geographical or cultural one....we all have responsibility for our own connection to the Divine, however that manifests, or not as the case may be for the individual....it is no-one else's business how we relate to God...especially not the Governments, and not followers of another belief system. What we must observe, however, to level the playing field, are basic human rights, including the right to religious and spiritual freedom. I'm trying hard not to impose my own ethics here, but I will not EVER submit to having another human tell me how my spiritual life has to be. I know Sharia Law encompasses more than just religion, but we cannot even take one step down the road of introducing any of it.

I know there has been talk of Sharia Law being introduced in part in the UK, but I was wondering if anyone knew which sections of it were under discussion? Was it just divorce law, or was there more?


Cait

bottom line is England is slowly but surely being taken over by muslims and before long there will be white muslim Brits sporting bushy beards and burkas to soccer games...I wonder how the hooligans will fight eachother when they are all wearing long dresses like the taliban.

I for one invite any and all UK refugees to come and live here in the US.
afterall we sure could use the cheap field labor.

Lol I notice the OP is using the Daily Mail as a reference.

That's like using petrol to put out a fire.


NOTHING to see here apart from crazy ring wing propoganda.

MrLizard...I disagree...I can see nothing right wing...is that what you meant?...about insisting that we are all equal under the law. Dan also quoted the Times as one of his sources.

I can only hope that Scots Law remains a separate entity from our kingdom friends over the border.

Cait