ISLAMABAD, OR IS IT GOOD?

According to press reports it would appear that our senior judge is contemplating allowing the practice of limited tenets of sharia law within our judicial system. One should beg the question if we have reciprocal arrangements with all the major islamic nations. Don't hold your breath.


We have, I'm sure, allowed such practices in the past. In the 90's a Glasgow MP was, according to reports, accused of misdemeanors involving his nomination application and a loan or gift of money, something that under British law would probably have been considered illegal. From what I recall sharia law deemed the money to be a gift and that was how it was settled.



The suggestion that we can have two separate systems of law running in tandem in limited areas can only bring about problems. In theory, this would appear in order; history however would suggest that the boundaries would be challenged regularly, with the law of the land being eroded little by little.