At least Damian Thompson gets it:The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips, had made some superficially plausible suggestions about the right of British Muslims to govern aspects of community life according to Sharia law. But they are plausible only if you fail to grasp the true nature of Sharia. Lord Phillips has indeed failed to grasp this. The man is a menace. If these proposals are accepted, the religious conventions that Muslims call "law" - and indeed form a corpus of intolerant and vengeful laws in undemocratic countries - will be granted a semi-legal status in Britain. The ostensible message to Muslims is: you may invoke Sharia law in financial and domestic matters not covered by the criminal law. The actual message that will be imbibed by many Muslims is: the British state has granted formal recognition to a legal code...
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