Unless we are to see more scenes such as those in Harrow, we need to draw a few lines.
While certainly not without sympathy for opposition to usury, Sharia law must have no legal status in this country. There should not be Muslim schools here (where Catholic schools have existed since a good thousand years before any other kind did).
Halal meat is, not least, a serviceable weapon in the armoury against the hunting ban, but animal sacrifice is totally unacceptable. So is polygamy. There is nothing any more acceptable about male than about female genital mutilation. Face-covering - not head-covering, but face-covering - is incompatible with the conduct of British social and cultural life.
We must expunge the influence of the despotic, misogynistic and Jew-hating Gulf monarchies in general, and of despotic, viciously misogynistic and fanatically Jew-hating Saudi Arabia in particular. Public holidays in this country should be Christian festivals rather than pointless celebrations of the mere fact that the banks are on holiday, and there is no case for non-Christian festivals to be public holidays here (nor, for that matter, for public holidays on purely Catholic feast days).
And mosques in this United Kingdom must not have domes and minarets, which are triumphalistic manifestations of an Islamised society, culture and polity, and which were in that spirit added to former churches during Islam’s forcible overrunning of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Sharia Law already exists in this country under the 1996 Arbitration Act, which was passed by a Tory Government.
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ReplyDeleteThe less I have to do with Islam (and the East or 18th century) the more I like it.
ReplyDeleteThe stuff about minarets is unfortunately petty.
As a prospective candidate you should at least TRY and speak to ALL potential voters or at least try and be silent on anything which will unnecessarily antagonise potential supporters.
Rightly or wrongly the pettiness about the mosques will be perceived as islamophobic and alienate decent people.
By the way the posts I make this week will likely as not be my last as in 7 days I start an employment which while not actually prohibiting me from having a political profile MIGHT REASONABLY BE SEEN as inhibiting me from having the interests of both communities here equally at heart.
I do of course wish you well in your political career, although obviously we disagree on many fundamentals.