Quit Britain if you want Sharia Law says Trevor Phillips.
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Daily Mail
Monday, February 27, 2006
By
Steve Doughty
Social Affairs Correspondent
MUSLIMS WHO WANT TO LIVE UNDER ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS LAW
SHOULD LEAVE BRITAIN
-the head of the Race
Equality Watchdog said yesterday.
The country must have one
set of laws decided by Parliament and anyone who wants something different
should ‘live somewhere else’, Trevor Phillips said.
The warning from the Chief
of the Commission for Racial Equality followed a survey, which found that four
out of ten British Muslims would like to see Shariah Law -Islamic religious law
-enforced in districts where they are in a majority.
His remarks in an interview
on ITV’s Jonathan Dibble programme suggest he believes that large numbers of
Muslims are failing to integrate into British society.
Mr Phillips has run into controversy
recently by rejecting the Left-wing doctrine of
MULTICULTURALISM
-and warning that, in
some areas, Britain is ‘sleepwalking to segregation’.
Yesterday he said everyone
who lives here should have a sense of Britishness.
He said of the idea of
Shariah Law in Muslim-dominated communities:
‘I don’t think that conceivable.’
‘We have one set of
laws.
They are decided by one group of people, members of
Parliament and that’s the end of the story. If you want to have laws decided in
another way, you have to live somewhere else.
Mr Phillips also said
that ‘some minorities’ should accept that freedom expression meant that people
had a right to give offence.
He said the right to give offence was ‘absolutely precious’
and added:
‘What some minorities have to accept is that there are certain
central things we all agree about, which are about the way we treat each other -that
we have an attachment to democracy, that we sort things out by voting not by
violence and intimidation, that we tolerate things that we don’t like.
‘Short of people menacing and threatening each other, we
have freedom of expression.
We allow people to
offend each other.’
The same, he said, applied to Muslim preachers who should be
free to give offence to gay pressure groups by condemning homosexuality.
‘One point of Britishness is that people can say what they
like about the way we should live, however absurd, however unpopular it is.’
[Sir Ian Blair and his
ilk we hope are taking in these precious words of wisdom and remain silent in
the future in matters that do NOT concern them allowing more police time to
catch the burglars -murderers and other violent criminals who have never had it
so good when they see the police wasting their time on THOUGHT CRIMES which are
no crimes at all]
To continue:
Mr Phillips said:
‘That’s why I believe that freedom of expression -including Muslim
leaders’ right to say they think homosexuality is harmful -is absolutely
precious.
‘Once we start to limit freedom of expression, the people
who suffer most are minorities.’
Mr Phillips has managed to offend a number of former allies
in the Labour Party and on the Left in recent months with his attack on the
MULTICULTURALISM
-that has underpinned Government thinking since Tony Blair
came to power.
The CRE chief has said everyone
in the country should speak English and that the development of cultural groups
with their own languages and districts threatens to create a segregated society.
The Muslim Council of Britain said last night that Mr
Phillips was wrong to think many Muslims wanted to see Shariah Law in this
country.
Spokesman Inayat Bunglawala said:
‘I don’t believe Muslims are really calling for the
implementation of Shariah Law. The
findings of the poll highlights, in our opinion, the importance many attach to
living by a code of conduct derived from Islamic teachings.’
He added:
‘British Muslims-like other communities -fully appreciate
the value of
FREE SPEECH.’
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