{"id":507,"date":"2008-09-26T08:01:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T13:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=507"},"modified":"2008-09-26T08:02:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T13:02:53","slug":"great-britain-is-under-sharia-law-in-less-than-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"Great Britain IS under Sharia Law in less than a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I didn&#8217;t want to believe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,422661,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">it<\/a>. I hoped that <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=361\" target=\"_blank\">I was wrong<\/a>. But I wasn&#8217;t and it did not even take 8 months&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,422661,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Britain has now adopted Islamic Sharia into it&#8217;s court system<\/a> for Muslim cases! This is a very sad time for Great Britain. It&#8217;s so sad that I don&#8217;t even want to call them &#8220;Great&#8221; anymore. Please pray for this situation and pray that things do not get taken too far with this for the sake of all those who live in Britain and don&#8217;t want to be under Sharia law themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from the news article I linked to above:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Islamic law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Rulings issued by a network of five sharia courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through county courts or the country&#8217;s High Court, a part of its Supreme Court system.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the rulings of sharia courts in Britain could not be enforced, and depended on voluntary compliance among Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians and church leaders expressed concerns that this could mark the beginnings of a &#8220;parallel legal system&#8221;\u009d based on sharia for some British Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, said: &#8220;If it is true that these tribunals are passing binding decisions in the areas of family and criminal law, I would like to know which courts are enforcing them because I would consider such action unlawful. British law is absolute and must remain so.&#8221;\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I didn&#8217;t want to believe it. I hoped that I was wrong. But I wasn&#8217;t and it did not even take 8 months&#8230; Britain has now adopted Islamic Sharia into it&#8217;s court system for Muslim cases! This is a very sad time for Great Britain. It&#8217;s so sad that I don&#8217;t even want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=507\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great Britain IS under Sharia Law in less than a year<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20,71,54,55,67,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-debate","category-false-religion","category-history","category-islam","category-politics","category-prayer-requests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}