Sharia Law Versus Secular Democracy

The rise of Islamist fundamentalism in Britain and worldwide, and attempts to impose elements of Sharia law in the UK and many other nations, has reinvigorated support for secularism - the separation of the State and religion.

This was the focus of last Saturday's conference in London on "Sharia law, apostasy and secularism," which bought together Muslims, ex-Muslims and people of other faiths and no faith. Half the participants and speakers were women; many of them women of Muslim heritage - a reflection of the victimisation that they have suffered at the hands of Islamist extremists, either in the UK or in their countries of origin.

Although Sharia law is not the law of the UK, there have been repeated and on-going attempts by Islamists to apply Sharia principles in law and education, in a bid to make these public institutions Sharia-accommodating. This is a direct threat to human rights; most notably to the human rights of UK Muslims.

Examples include the Law Society's guidance on drawing up Sharia wills that facilitated discrimination against women, children and non-Muslims. It was only withdrawn after months of protests. Some UK universities have allowed compulsory gender segregation in on-campus Islamic Society meetings and even today most have no guidelines to prevent such discrimination. There are Islamic faith schools that restrict music and dance lessons and limit the participation of girls in sports. They force the wearing of the hijab, don't teach evolution and fail to provide HIV, sex and relationship education to safeguard the health and welfare of pupils. Their main focus is Islamic religious education, to the relative neglect of other subjects.


http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/peter-g-tatchell/secular-conference_b_6658808.html?utm_hp_ref=uk


Again we need to make all schools secular. We know for a fact the Saudi's have been importing and funding heir doctrine of Wahhabism into schools and some Mosques and for the sake of many Muslims and this country we need to ban this evil doctrine of wahhabism from our schools. We need to have schools that are not biased by religious nonsense.

well didge...it may have escaped their notice but we actually HAVE seperation of church and state.
The fact that those other things mention are allowed to happen is soley due to the fact our so called leadership are too fooking scared to turn round and say, NO.

darknessss wrote:well didge...it may have escaped their notice but we actually HAVE seperation of church and state.
The fact that those other things mention are allowed to happen is soley due to the fact our so called leadership are too fooking scared to turn round and say, NO.

But that has gone on for nearly a hundred years, where we have allowed both Beth din and of late sharia courts. They may only give guidance on religious or marital disputes, but lets face it both religions hold very backwards views of women.
 The only other problem though is if they would just go under ground. I think we need to place greater emphasis and encouragement for those who come from orthodox families here to not be afraid to use the British laws provided

I think we need to be more proactive though , It is already suspected that illegal sharia courts are in session even handing out death penalties.

It is unlikely that we will ever know for certain since the govt is too scared to go "digging around" afraid of what it will find compare with the rotherham and similar scandals....