August 26, 2008 British Islam Newslinks
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093209302
(UK) Sharia courts rule on sex lives in Britain
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2625090/Sharia-courts-rule-on-sex-lives-in-Britain.html
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093209302
(UK) Sharia courts rule on sex lives in Britain
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2625090/Sharia-courts-rule-on-sex-lives-in-Britain.html
-- "Among the mosques to receive funding is the Green Lane mosque in Small Heath. The Channel 4 Dispatches programme exposed hate preaching at this mosque. A preacher, Abu Usama, urged that homosexuals be thrown from mountains."
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2008/08/25/council-spending-3million-in-the-fight-against-muslim-extremism-66331-21599047/
(UK) Scotland: When Muslims look to Shari'ah principles, the law of Scotland can be quite accommodating
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/John--Fotheringham--When.4422319.jp
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1063910_boys_happy_to_flog_themselves
http://www.wigantoday.net/latest-north-west-news/Boys-happy-to-flog-themselves.4420554.jp
(UK) Scotland Yard says its top Muslim officer is suing
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/22/europe/EU-Britain-Police-Discrimination.php
(UK) Channel 4 announces return of Undercover Mosque -- documentary to show that Islamic supremacism, calls for killing, continue to spread in UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/22/channel4.islam?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews
(UK) Manchester: Boys 'happy to flog themselves'
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1063910_boys_happy_to_flog_themselves
(UK) Censored: imam of Dibley is banned from ITV
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article4587798.ece
-- "lawyers said it might be culturally insensitive"
Commentaries:
British Submission -- by Douglas Stone
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=F5BFAB45-7CB7-4FEB-8BF3-7E75014BE5BB
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/20/islam.religion
-- ignorning existing UK laws
http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/docs/consent.pdf
-- while Quilliam Foundation's Maajid Nawaz defends Egyptian Grand Mufti Sheik Ali Gomaa
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/08/quilliam_responds.php
-- and Gomaa calls for the death penalty for adultery, and takes a relativistic view towards wife-beating
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1586.htm
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1154.htm
-- see also Jeffrey Imm article
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.924/pub_detail.asp
UK: Pharmacy to offer Ramadan service
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/08/uk-pharmacy-to-offer-ramadan-service.html
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout&cid=1218650346187
(UK) Manchester: Teenagers forced to flog themselves, court told -- during Muslim ceremony
http://www.wigantoday.net/latest-north-west-news/Teenagers-forced-to-flog-themselves.4405208.jp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7568953.stm
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23541517-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080816/BUSINESS/957576411/-1/ART
(UK) Sharia car insurance: For the first time, Muslims can buy policies in line with Islamic law
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1045959/Sharia-car-insurance-For-time-Muslims-buy-policies-line-Islamic-law.html
(UK) Man goes on trial accused of encouraging two boys to flog themselves during Muslim ceremony in Britain
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1046370/Man-goes-trial-accused-encouraging-boys-flog-Muslim-ceremony-Britain.html?ITO=1490
(UK) The Sham of Women's Rights Under the Shari'a -- by D. L. Perry
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/the_sham_of_womens_rights_unde.html
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/08/sham-of-womens-rights-under-sharia.html
(UK) British anti-Americanism 'based on misconceptions'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2575395/British-anti-Americanism-based-on-misconceptions.html
(UK) Shariah Finance: alburaq launches UK 'Halaal' savings plan
http://www.ifaonline.co.uk/public/showPage.html?page=ifa2006_articleimport&tempPageName=810047
(UK) British security laws are eroding human rights, says UN -- Government has been criticized by the United Nations for introducing laws that have stifled freedom of expression in the UK.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2561251/British-security-laws-are-eroding-human-rights-says-UN.html
(UK) CounterterrorismBlog.org's Michael Jacobson provides Quilliam Foundation's Maajid Nawaz response to criticism on Mufti Ali Goma and others on Quilliam web site: "Mufti Ali Goma must stand innocent until proven guilty"
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/08/quilliam_responds.php
-- False Reports of Jihadists "Quitting" or Abandoning Islamic Supremacism -- by Jeffrey Imm
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/07/false_reports_on_jihad.php
-- Quilliam Foundation - About Us
http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/about-us.html
-- March 6, 2008 - U.S. News and World Report: Egypt's Grand Mufti Counters the Tide of Islamic Extremism
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/world/2008/03/06/egypts-grand-mufti-counters-the-tide-of-islamic-extremism.html
--- portrayed Sheik Ali Gomaa as "moderate" calling for "sharia law... [as] the best antidote to Islamic extremism"
-- MEMRI: The New Egyptian Mufti - Dr. Sheikh 'Ali Gum'a: Opinions About Jihad, Supporting Suicide Bombings, and Forbidding Muslims in the U.S. Military From Fighting Other Muslims
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP58003
-- MEMRI: In Interview, Egyptian Mufti Ali Gum'a Questioned On Treatment of Women in Islam, Blames 'Secularists' For Terrorism Worldwide
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP175507
-- MEMRI: The Mufti of Egypt: The True Face of the Blood-Sucking Hebrew Entity has Been Exposed
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP125506
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=226122&Sn=BUSI&IssueID=31146
(UK) Sharia Finance: Gatehouse sees more UK Islamic investment banks
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\08\13\story_13-8-2008_pg5_26
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2546788/Suicide-bomber-novel-censored-from-Muslim-writing-competition-claims-author-Max-Malik.html
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/64997-malik-claims-censorship.html
-- "An author who won last year's Muslim Writer of the Year Award has claimed his new book was "censored" from this year's competition because it tackled subjects "unpalatable" to Britain's Islamic community like suicide bombings"
(UK) Muslim Writers awards deny censorship of 'unpalatable' novel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/13/muslim.awards.malik
-- Britain is stepping up its campaign against so-called "honor-related violence." CNN's Paula Newton reports
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/08/10/newton.uk.honor.violence.cnn
-- Video addresses case of "Banaz Mahmod, 20, an Iraqi Kurd from south London, was killed and buried in a suitcase in Birmingham in April 2006."
-- August 6 court found her cousin and his friend accused of hiding her body - released due to insufficient evidence
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7546184.stm
http://www.thelondonpaper.com/cs/Satellite/london/news/article/1157154253541?packedargs=suffix%3DArticleController
-- UK Karma Nirvana charity - survivors of forced marriage and 'honour'-based violence
-- Project founder and director Jasvinder Sanghera
http://www.karmanirvana.org.uk/
Newslinks: "Honour Killings"
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Current+Affairs/Ethnic+Issues/Honour+Killings
Newslinks: "Honor Killings"
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/?JavaScript=1&search=honor+killing
News: StopHonourKillings.com
http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News
Honor Killings in Muslim majority countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honour_Killings#Muslim_majority_countries
UK's first 'sharia-compliant' MasterCard launched for Muslims -- launched today in London
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-08-11-MasterCard-launches-UKs-first-sharia-compliant-credit-card-for-Muslims
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/business_money/shariacompliant+mastercard+launch/2392782
UK: Sharia prepaid card
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/08/uk-sharia-prepaid-card.html
http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/display.var.2422427.0.shariacompliant_card_launched.php
(Scotland) SNP gives more funding to ally's Islamic group
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/latestnews?articleid=4375178
(UK) Is this the beginning of a new European Islam? -- Urmee Khan
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/urmeekhan/blog/2008/08/08/is_this_the_beginning_of_a_new_european_islam
-- argues that segrational Sharia law can be modified so that "Muslim women in Britain will be guaranteed equal rights"
-- refuses to acknowledge that they already have such rights now under British law
(UK) British Muslims Protest for "Shariah for China" (my title)
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/08/08/a_cunning_plan
http://wa2.images.onesite.com/blogs.telegraph.co.uk/user/hermione_hoby/protestors3.jpg.jpg
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2518720/New-Sharia-law-marraige-contract-gives-Muslim-women-rights.html
--- Dr. Usama Hasan: "It is high time that Muslim women enjoy the same rights and freedoms under Islamic law as they do under present legal systems in the UK."
--- Never occurs to Hasan that British women all have the same rights under UK legal system, since Sharia seeks separtist law.
(UK) Some good news about Sharia law -- by Janet Daley
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/janet_daley/blog/2008/08/08/some_good_news_about_sharia_law
-- claims Sharia law changes "could mark the beginning of a new phase in the integration of what is now Britain's largest religious minority."
(UK) Muslim marriage contract 'revolutionary' for UK women
http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/s/1061862_muslim_marriage_contract_revolutionary_for_uk_women
(UK) Additional Report: Publisher Random House has pulled a novel about Islam over protest fears
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2521794/Publisher-Random-House-has-pulled-a-novel-about-Islam-over-protest-fears.html
(UK) Trial of men accused of Banaz Mahmod 'honor killing' collapses -- due to "lack of evidence"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4474218.ece
(Afghanistan/UK) British Muslims 'fighting with Taliban in Afghanistan'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/2485750/British-Muslims-fighting-with-Taliban-in-Afghanistan.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4448024.ece
(Afghanistan/UK) 'UK Muslims fighting alongside Taliban'
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\08\03\story_3-8-2008_pg7_25
(UK) Prince Harry's security raised following al-Qaeda threat
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Prince_Harrys_security_raised_following_al-Qaeda_threat/rssarticleshow/3321191.cms
(UK) Spy-in-sky patrols over British cities in hunt for Taliban fighters
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1041011/MI5-launch-spy-sky-UK-manhunt-British-Taliban-fought-Afghanistan.html?ITO=1490
(UK) Blair: Inter-faith dialogue does address root causes of terrorism
http://www.newsabahtimes.com.my/nstweb/fullstory/20294
http://www.thestar.co.uk/rotherham/Lessons-on-Islam-for-hospital.4339407.jp
http://www.huliq.com/65176/ftsejse-launches-shariah-top-40-index
Standard Chartered Bank announces Islamic Online Treasury (OLT) proprietary foreign exchange (FX) trading and hedging platform
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Business_News&subsection=Local+Business&month=July2008&file=Business_News2008073004817.xml
(UK) Britain tightens visa rules for overseas students
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/30/europe/EU-Britain-Foreign-Students.php
(UK) British hacker loses extradition appeal
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/07/30/British_hacker_loses_extradition_appeal/UPI-28871217422750/
(UK) Shariah-compliant insurer launched
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/business_money/shariahcompliant+insurer+launched/2362327
(UK) Disabled married off for entry into the UK
http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/2195
http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2877
-- Disabled youngsters forced into marriage to provide passports
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/disabled-youngsters-forced-into-marriage-to-provide-passports-878256.html
(UK) Diplomats rescue British teenager from forced marriage - Nasrin Begum
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4394909.ece
(UK) Forced to marry her cousin at 17 - Shazia Qayum
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article4386899.ece
(UK) Salman Rushdie locked in cupboard while fatwa police protection team went to pub
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2463429/Salman-Rushdie-locked-in-cupboard-while-fatwa-police-protection-team-went-to-pub.html
(UK) Channel 4 Qur'an documentary disappoints Muslims -- Muslim scholars have accused a Channel 4 documentary about the Qur'an of being "disappointing, misleading, even defamatory".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/2465174/Channel-4-Quran-documentary-disappoints-Muslims.html
(UK) All air passengers to give their fingerprints ... but is the reason security or simply to raise profits for the duty-free shops?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1038879/All-air-passengers-fingerprints---reason-security-simply-raise-profits-duty-free-shops.html
(UK) Sharia Law Already in the UK
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/islamsadvance/2008/07/sharia_law_already_in_the_uk.html
(UK) Senior Muslim's warning over extremism drive -- says anti-extremism drive "implies there is a widespread problem"
http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.2409015.0.senior_muslims_warning_over_extremism_drive.php
(UK) Forced to marry her cousin at 17
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article4386899.ece
(UK) Treat Muslims better, Britain told by UN -- Britain has been told by the United Nations to challenge negative public views towards the Muslim community.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2457699/Treat-Muslims-better%2C-Britain-told-by-UN.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1038460/You-nicer-Muslims-Britain-told-UN-human-rights-chiefs.html
(UK) British opposition leader eyes 'Sharia law for bike theft' - David Cameron
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j_Hy2XcwPUwXohexq4o9TL6Ykc0g
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article4381034.ece
http://www.mondovisione.com/index.cfm?section=news&action=detail&id=75990
(UK) Muslims take police to task over stop-and-search procedures
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.2405282.0.Muslims_take_police_to_task_over_stopandsearch_procedures.php
(UK) Government drops plan to allow Muslim schools to police themselves
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/education/2439866/Government-drops-plan-to-allow-Muslim-schools-to-police-themselves.html
(UK) Lebanese woman appeals deportation order to keep her son - update - appeal against a deportation order that would lead to her losing custody of her son under Sharia law to an allegedly violent husband
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4378759.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=989864
(UK) Met chief in race storm gave advice on 7/7 film 'off record'
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1037226/Met-chief-race-storm-gave-advice-7-7-film-record.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2310761/Airliner-terror-plot-accused-admit-minor-charges.html
-- video excerpts (April 2008 London Times) - Waheed Zaman: "you will be killed... you will be bombed" and Arafat Khan called for "floods of martyrdom operations"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3671823.ece
(UK) Islamists launch PR 'war' against Western values -- Hizb ut-Tahrir
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/53238/Islamists-launch-PR-war-against-Western-values
(UK) Home Secretary warned by first group to be given ID cards that they will not improve security
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/2309749/Jacqui-Smith-warned-by-first-group-to-be-given-ID-cards-that-they-will-not-improve-security.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4371678.ece
http://www.greaterkashmir.com/full_story.asp?Date=21_7_2008&ItemID=41&cat=1
-- In UK alone, 50,000 enter the fold every year
UK: Sharia crime courts
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/07/uk-sharia-crime-courts.html
-- revealed today that a teenage stabbing case among the Somali community in Woolwich had been dealt with by a sharia "trial"
-- The British sharia 'crime' court in a cafe where knifemen walk free
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-513020/The-British-sharia-crime-court-cafe-knifemen-walk-free.html
UK court to rule on Islamic law case
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080721/ap_on_re_eu/britain_lebanon_asylum_case_1;_ylt=Ang.n.CIdQn3EL.opjHPObjagGIB
-- Britain's highest appeals court is scheduled to decide this week whether a divorced woman and her son should be deported to Lebanon, where she claims her abusive husband will gain custody under Sharia law.
UK: Mars launches Asian cuisine line
http://www.just-food.com/article.aspx?ID=103154
Commentaries:
(UK) Your fawning offends Islam Archbishop... not your Christianity
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/
(UK) All state pupils may be taught Islamic traditions as part of compulsory citizenship lessons -- UK state school pupils are set to be taught Islamic traditions and values in compulsory citizenship lessons
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1036328/All-state-pupils-taught-Islamic-traditions-compulsory-citizenship-lessons.html
-- "instead of patriotism, pupils are taught to focus on diversity, globalization, and the role of the European Union and United Nations"
-- "David Conway, senior research fellow at the Civitas think-tank, said: 'Some will see this as another sign of a creeping process of Islamisation - an insidious process which plays down the Christian basis of our culture and encourages children to learn more and more about Islam's contribution.'"
-- 'I fear it will play into the hands of the small minority who want to see the Islamisation of Europe, and believe they will triumph through sheer numbers.'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080718/music_nm/stevens_court_dc
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/18/2308341.htm?section=justin
-- from a news agency which reported he refused to talk to women at an awards ceremony who were not wearing a veil
(UK) Burkha wearing muslim refused on bus
http://www.wetherbynews.co.uk/wetherby/Burkha-wearing-muslim-refused-on.4300023.jp
-- driver told the family they were not allowed to board as the CCTV cameras would not be able to see the faces of the women, who were wearing a full veil
(UK) Archbishop of Canterbury 'should be trying to convert Muslims'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2304417/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-%27should-be-trying-to-convert-Muslims%27.html
(UK) Mosque hopes for guide dog rule
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/7511103.stm
(UK) 5 men illegally enter Britain on army trucks traveling from Kosovo
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/17/europe/EU-Britain-Stowaways.php
(UK) "As Muslims we have fully integrated into British society, but we have no desire to assimilate to an inferior culture"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021816.php
http://fosterfriess.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-meetings-with-iraqi-shiite-clerics.html
http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2008/07/dispatches_source_on_islamopho.html
(UK) Christian doctrine offensive to Muslim, says Archbishop of Canterbury -- bemoans the "offensive" nature of Christian trinity
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2303162/Christian-doctrine-offensive-to-Muslim%2C-says-Archbishop-of-Canterbury.html
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1035420/Why-Christian-doctrine-offensive-Muslims-Archbishop.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/14/islam.race
(UK) TV drama portrays Muslim being beheaded by Christian
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69500
(UK) New board of imams to tackle extremists
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4322721.ece
(UK) Bishop refutes judge's Sharia comments
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2008/07/13/bishop-refutes-judge%E2%80%99s-sharia-comments/
Sharia law thin edge of wedge -- by Salim Mansur
http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2008/07/12/6137496-sun.html
Vehicles for Creeping Sharia -- by Baron Bodissey
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/07/vehicles-for-creeping-sharia.html#readfurther
-- (UK) New board of imams to tackle extremists
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4322721.ece
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/51891/UK-Muslims-reject-Sharia
-- group web site
http://www.islamicpluralism.eu/
-- Daniel Pipes on "Stephen Schwartz and the Center for Islamic Pluralism"
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/03/stephen-schwartz-and-the-center-for-islamic.html
(UK) Our survey shows British Muslims don't want sharia
http://www.spectator.co.uk//the-magazine/features/825601/our-survey-shows-british-muslims-dont-want-sharia.thtml
http://www.inspiremagazine.org.uk/news.aspx?action=view&id=2615
(UK) Boost for Davis as poll shows little public support for 42 days
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jul/09/terrorism.daviddavis
(UK) This country to so pro-Muslim it is giving succour to the extremists who would destroy us -- by Melanie Phillips
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1033189/This-country-pro-Muslim-giving-succour-extremists-destroy-us.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/07/law.civilliberties
(UK) Sniffer dogs may have to wear 'booties' in UK Muslim houses, mosques
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23979619-5006003,00.html
-- Sniffer dogs to wear 'Muslim' bootees
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4276489.ece
-- Police puppy considered "ritually" unclean
http://timesonline.typepad.com/faith/2008/07/the-police-pupp.html
(UK) Newcastle deny Bin Laden link but Saudi buyers are interested
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/jul/07/newcastleunited.premierleague?gusrc=rss&feed=sport
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1032693/Bin-Ladens-family-set-launch-bid-buy-Newcastle-United.html
(UK) Official Pandering to the Islamic Hardliners is Political Cowardice
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/51445
(UK) The Jews of Europe are.. still the Jews
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/business/820911/the-jews-of-europe-are-still-the-jews.thtml
(UK) "Tolerate sharia, yes, but never respect it" -- by Minette Marrin
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article4276471.ece
-- this commentary of "tolerance" reveals the true weakness of mainstream United Kingdom on this subject
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/07/04/sharia_is_a_danger_to_us_all
(UK) Is cosying up to Muslim extremists the best way to defeat terrorism? - by Charles Moore
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/05/do0501.xml
(UK) The Sharia debate: we can't all be equal under different laws - by Matthew Parris
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article4272421.ece
(UK) Former chair of Bar Council calls for sharia rules in English law - Stephen Hockman QC called for sharia rules to be written into English law
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1032080/Former-chair-Bar-Council-calls-sharia-rules-English-law.html
(UK) Sharia will 'inevitably' become part of British law, says barrister Stephen Hockman QC: "It is vital and inevitable that sharia will become part of British law in some shape or form"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2247947/Sharia-will-%27inevitably%27-become-part-of-British-law%2C-says-barrister.html
(UK) Muslims in Britain should be able to live under sharia, says top judge - Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2242340/Muslims-in-Britain-should-be-able-to-live-under-Sharia-law%2C-says-top-judge.html
-- Full Text of Speech Published at East London Mosque in UK's Web Site
http://www.eastlondonmosque.org.uk/uploadedImage/pdf/EQUALITY%20BEFORE%20THE%20LAW03-07-2008.pdf
(UK) Case dismissed: Lord Chief Justice lays down law on Sharia
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4265549.ece
(UK) Let UK Muslims live under partial Shariah: judge
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\07\05\story_5-7-2008_pg7_9
(UK) Does Britain have space for Sharia?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/yourview/2243045/Does-Britain-have-space-for-Sharia.html
(UK) Schoolboys disciplined for 'refusing to pray to Allah'-- spokesman for Cheshire County Council said 'Educating children in the beliefs of different faiths is part of Cheshire's diversity curriculum'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2247388/Schoolboys-disciplined-for-%27refusing-to-pray-to-Allah%27.html
(UK) Schoolboys punished with detention for refusing to kneel in class and pray to Allah
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031784/Schoolboys-punished-detention-refusing-kneel-pray-Allah.html
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=68785
(UK) British Muslims 'feel like the Jews of Europe'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2245450/British-Muslims-%27feel-like-the-Jews-of-Europe%27.html
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\07\05\story_5-7-2008_pg7_10