--- In [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> , "shempmcgurk" <shempmcg...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> , off_world_beings <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> , Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Jul 4, 2009, at 2:03 AM, cardemaister wrote: > > > > > > > 1. Great Britain > > > > > > > > > Worry not, the Religion of Peace has established as many as 85 Sharia > > > Courts to bring coherence to Great Britain: > > > > > > 85 Sharia courts now operating in Britain > > > According to the think tank Civitas, "Among the rulings ... we find > > > some that advise illegal actions and others that transgress human > > > rights standards as they are applied by British courts.">> > > > > This is stupid. You are being brainwashed by the media. There are > > Christian church courts in the USA that enforce rules on their > > congregation. A few even advise illegal action. It is just the minority > > though...not the norm. > > > > The ancient egalatarian keltic society in Britain is invincible. It > > cannot be wetted, it cannot be burned, it can be dried up, it cannot be > > destroyed. A few outliers are just the natural accepted cost of freedom. > > And don't forget, Britain has been a free country a lot longer than the > > USA has. > > > > OffWorld > > > > > The way that I understood the Sharia court to work as a result of Vaj's post is that they would have the force of law. > > Is that not correct?>>
Of course not. Get real. Only gangsters break the law with their own laws. > If it is correct then, certainly, that would be bypassing the current court system? > > Of course, if the Sharia court is only for civil matters and people freely enter into a binding sort of agreement -- the way people do with arbitrators -- then, yes, it would just be an extension of a system that already is in place in America.> Er, Britain is not like America. It is not so easy to be held by some binding agreement when it comes to human rights. OffWorld
