Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Sharia in Britain, etc.

Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips of England declared in a speech that Sharia law can be used in England to negotiate contracts as long as it complies with British Law.

This alarmed me at first (the water around here gives you a conservative knee-jerk xenophobia if you aren't careful) but after some consideration and reading of the surprisingly civil comments, I realized this, if taken at face value, has absolutely no meaning.

Where's the beef?

If English law is still supreme, then what was the point of the speech? I don't agree with the author's viewpoint (FOX commentator) but he raises some valid questions. The speech either has no meaning or it says that Sharia can supersede English law.
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The G8 moved with blinding fast speed on Zimbabwe, calling for sanctions, my god, sanctions! He should've provided us with intelligence about the terrorists, it worked well enough for Omar al-Bashir. Heck we even flew a genocidaire over on a private jet to get "intelligence" off of him back in '05. Whole lot of good Sudanese intelligence is doing us now.
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In further news, the BBC is just as bad as the American media if you go by the content of this article. It's fascinating that the argument isn't because a prominent businessman was caught in a bizarre and creepy sexual act, it's because of allegations that aforementioned bizarre and creepy sexual act involved National Socialism.

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