Really... what if?

[dreamville_bg]

What could possibly go wrong?

LONDONABAD, Britannistan. Prime Minister Theresa May has come up with an amazingly ingenuous proposal for solving the rising terror problem that Mother Britannia is having these days. She is preparing a draft of a bill that would enforce Sharia law across the UK.

Her rationale: if people were following strict Islamic

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[luzribeiro]

Multiculturalism in action, baby.

[johnny9fingers]

My dad worked for the Express under Beaverbrook and then Max Aitken

[dreamville_bg]

Why should there be Sharia decisions on British soil at all?

[johnny9fingers]

We extend to religions the same rights that clubs and unions have. Though neither unions nor clubs tend to describe their internal arbitration processes as courts. Which is why I used the analogy of gentlemen's clubs.

The Jewish court, Beth Din, also operates in the U.K. in a similar fashion. Subordinate to English law, it deals with divorce, property and family matters according to cultural mores. Which is what the Sharia courts do too. The important point here is subordinate to English law, which is in itself subordinate to the international treaty agreements of which we are signatories like the ICHR etc.

Positing Sharia courts in the U.K. as a bogeyman is only vaguely plausible when one considers familial pressure and social coercion within the Islamic community, but that's about it. And actually those things, social coercion and family pressure, are true of all communities.

[dreamville_bg]

So when you recognize different legal and judicial systems for various groups in the same society, don't you risk encapsulating those groups and then having them marginalized? Isn't this the reason that so many British-born citizens are now getting radicalized?

[mahnmut]

LONDONABAD, Britannistan.

Good one. :-)

[mikeyxw]

Very nice, but it wouldn't work. The UK had basically Christian based law for centuries, this didn't stop one Christian from saying something like "there's no miraculous transformation during the Eucharist" and another Christian saying "them are fighting words" and blowing up some civilians to make his point. Until God comes down and clarifies things, which I believe would be an event called "The Apocalypse", or provides a 24/7 support line, some folks are just going to use religion as an excuse to be violent assholes.

[mahnmut]

All major religions are a tool for social oppression anyway.

[mikeyxw]

Yep, but on the side they do a lot of community building, charity work, and generally try to make people see beyond themselves.

[mahnmut]

Hitlerjügend did too.