I guess the problem would be one of 'scope'. Having a 'sharia' court that arbitrated over business disputes between Muslims on Brick Lane would be difficult to ban, as it would essentially be disallowing commercial entities from using arbitration.
Wouldn't the simplest way be say that non-official courts have arbitration power only, and only concerning commercial disputes, and that they specifically have no jurisdiction over matters of family law?
Even here, the issue - as Sean Fear rightly pointed out- is that you cannot stop Scientologists from going through a Scientology wedding ceremony and being recognised as married, even if only by the Scientology community. You can't legislate people's beliefs.
Baroness Cox sought to introduce a Bill in the House of Lords to achieve just that - namely making sharia law inapplicable to family, inheritance, criminal law - but the government would not give it sufficient time. A pity.
Whatever the position may have been in medieval Europe, we do not - and should not - allow separate communities to be ruled by anything other than the law of the land, and certainly not on the basis of religion (or any other characteristic, for that matter). That way lies madness and the evils of "separate but equal".
One country, one law, all of us citizens, all of us equal citizens under the same law.
As with Carragher the sentimentality risks extending his status beyond its natural life, although he's been a bit better this season the stats from last year are damning.
He's been much stronger this season - trying to find Castrol rankings but seem to have disappeared apart from MLS.
Also note that Guardian article relates to TWO years ago
Need to be careful - before this season stats showed Liverpool did better without Suarez.
I think Suarez now number 3 in Castrol rankings for whole of Europe - but can't actually find them!
BBC now broadcasting 'Mandela The Homecoming', including a tribute from the leader of the SA Communist Party at his Memorial. While some coverage is appropriate, and I will watch the Funeral tomorrow, I think we can safely say their coverage of the death of a foreign leader of old age is greater than that they gave to the passing of Thatcher, our greatest post-war PM. I also highly doubt they would have broadcast any tributes from, say, a representative of the BNP to Thatcher either
Why would the BNP give any tributes to Thatcher.
After all, the BNP are nothing more than old style labour, nationalise everything, tax everything, have the state run everything, looney tune socialism with the added ingredient of overt racism.
They can hardly be expected to be the grocers daughters biggest fan.
Remember "racist tram woman"? That sad, drunk single mother in Croydon who ranted about immigrants? She was very unpleasant but did not actually threaten violence; yet she was immediately arrested and spent several weeks remanded in custody.
Choudary, by contrast, clearly incites violence, praises terrorists, applauds racist assaults, and stokes ethnic hatred - and walks the streets untouched.
It's just f*cking ridiculous. I may do a blog comparing them.
"yet she was immediately arrested and spent several weeks remanded in custody."
She's had a lot more than that cos she opted for a jury trial and a not guilty plea so they've been postponing the court case (six times so far IIRC) and persecuting her ever since and trying to get her committed and take her kid as a way to get her to change her plea. The last postponement was April or May this year (again IIRC I may have missed another postponement since).
The case was concluded in June this year. IIRC, the judge essentially ordered the two sides to get together and sort themselves out because it had been delayed too long. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23128956
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They'll both have centuries by then.
Mark Wallace @wallaceme 5m
@Andrew_ComRes @johnrentoul Indie reporting UKIP 18% and LD 8%, but ComRes table says other way round
http://www.comres.co.uk/polls/SM_IoS_Political_Poll_15th_December_2013.pdf … who's right?
By the way, another great Marf cartoon!
Whatever the position may have been in medieval Europe, we do not - and should not - allow separate communities to be ruled by anything other than the law of the land, and certainly not on the basis of religion (or any other characteristic, for that matter). That way lies madness and the evils of "separate but equal".
One country, one law, all of us citizens, all of us equal citizens under the same law.
Also note that Guardian article relates to TWO years ago
Need to be careful - before this season stats showed Liverpool did better without Suarez.
I think Suarez now number 3 in Castrol rankings for whole of Europe - but can't actually find them!
After all, the BNP are nothing more than old style labour, nationalise everything, tax everything, have the state run everything, looney tune socialism with the added ingredient of overt racism.
They can hardly be expected to be the grocers daughters biggest fan.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23128956