Sorry, it's OK for Sharia law to be introduced into the UK

The BBC "helpfully" have an article that tells us that it is fine for Sharia law to be used in the UK after all those Jews have their own courts - take a look at this article.

There is a subtle difference, but the BBC are as always out to look after their constituency not the whole country. As Melanie Phillips wrote recently "Jewish couples who divorce have to do so under English law for their divorce to be recognised by the state. The separate Jewish religious divorce (which incidentally causes much distress to women in certain circumstances to whom it does not grant a divorce, precisely because it does not correspond to English law) is just that, an entirely separate and culturally private matter. Although there are Jewish religious courts giving judgments over a wide range of issues, the whole point is that they have the status of informal arbitration and do not impinge at all upon the laws or customs of the country. They are based on the acknowledgement that, where Jewish religious law conflicts with English law, Jewish law gives way. Wherever they have settled over the centuries, Jews have always accepted that, as citizens of that country, they are bound by its laws. They have never required the host country to change its laws or customs to accommodate them; nor do they set their own religious laws above those of their country.

It is very important that people realise the crucial difference between allowing a minority the right to practise its own precepts while fitting in with the law of the land, and allowing members of a minority to force the law of the land to fit in with them. It is very important that people understand that the pressure to sharia-ise Britain is far more dangerous even than terrorism because – see the government’s embrace of ‘sharia finance’ – its implications simply aren’t understood and it is likely therefore to be accepted. Salami-slice by salami slice, this is how British society will be dismembered."