Have you ever watched a nation commit suicide before?
[TimesOnline] ISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.
The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.
Rulings issued by a network of five sharia courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through the county courts or High Court.
Previously, the rulings of sharia courts in Britain could not be enforced, and depended on voluntary compliance among Muslims.
It has now emerged that sharia courts with these powers have been set up in London, Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester with the network’s headquarters in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Two more courts are being planned for Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The crazies in the UK wring their hands and hold hearings about whether there is too much Catholicism in Catholic schools. They steadfastly resist removing the 1701 Act of Settlement, which allows the heir to the throne to marry a member of any religion except Roman Catholicism. But when sharia courts have the full sanction of law, not a peep.
Listen to me. There is one thing and one thing only that can save the UK and the rest of Europe from this passive act of suicide. A thorough Christian revival. Specifically, a Catholic revival. Europe must and will return to its Christian roots in order to be saved. But they are not ready yet. More needs to happen to convince the convincable that the root of the looming disaster is their rejection of Jesus and his Church.
They will realize it in time, but only after pain and suffering like they have never seen before (and that is saying something.) I believe that they will turn back, eventually. Once they begin to believe that God has allowed them their own contrary wills and they will all surely die, then they will finally seek Him whom they have rejected.
The UK and Europe are sowing the seeds of their own destruction. Unfortunately the symptoms of the disease have yet to be painful enough for them to seek the cure. That will likely change.
Pray that their fate will not be ours.
September 15, 2008 at 6:26 am
*gags*
So, do they get to apply the death penalty for those who convert out of Islam?
September 15, 2008 at 1:48 pm
What’s that old saying about the nose of a camel and a tent? All that’s left to get inside now are the rear legs and the tail.
September 15, 2008 at 1:50 pm
This is patently ridiculous. To give it the same status as British law? The heir to the throne can’t marry a Catholic, but they can have religious courts? And as someone who worked in a shelter and on a crisis line for battered women, I am appalled that domestic violence will be handled by a Muslim court. I don’t care what people say, that religion oppresses women, and consistently blames women for the seeming inability of the men to keep their hands to themselves and their trousers zipped (I think they just haven’t tried). Absolutely ridiculous. And the boloney about it being civil matters is bogus when it comes to domestic violence- when somebody assaults a stranger, it’s criminal, and it is and ought to be when there is a pattern of violence within a family.
And it isn’t getting proper press. In private mediation, people can do what they want, but I didn’t even know this had been going on for a year, a fact which came out recently- and I read the BBC most days.
September 15, 2008 at 2:20 pm
And I always thought that Chesterton’s “The Flying Inn” was supposed to be funny……
I guess it was actually prophetic….
September 15, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Jumpy-jump-jump-hoolagans! Britain did WHAT!?
September 15, 2008 at 4:21 pm
It may be that Britain becomes Muslim – and hence control of its nukes – before Iran develops such a weapon.
September 15, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I’m eeriely reminded of several scenes in Lewis’s The Last Battle (chronologically the last book in the Narnia serioes) when the false god is given rule over Narnia by impersonating Aslan. Oh, my.
September 15, 2008 at 8:36 pm
That’s what happens when protestant queens in-breed.
September 15, 2008 at 10:47 pm
The heir to the throne can’t marry a Catholic, but they can have religious courts?
That’s what happens when protestant queens in-breed.
Yup. England has commited so much evil on the world since it rejected and oppressed the church that I just can’t stifle the feeling that this is in effect some sort of cosmic justice. When I lived in London a few years back, it was as if there were two parallel societies already (European and Mohammedan). This latest act simply builds a solid dividing wall on a foundation that has been in place for years.
I’d suggest anyone who is so inclined should collecting English memorabilia now, as England as we know it will most likely be gone within the next century.