RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE: A British campaigning group has hit out at plans that would allow current financial arrangements to be altered to allow Sharia-compliant bonds to be issued.
The warning comes from two bodies, the Christian Legal Centre and Christian Concern for Our Nation (CCFON). They spoke out after changes were recommended to the Legislative Framework for the Regulation of Alternative Finance Investment Bonds (Sukuk). They say that if the changes are accommodated, the British Government would be ‘capitulating’ to Islamic religious law.
The subject of Sharia law has been hotly debated in the UK following comments by the Archbishop of Canterbury when he said that it "seems inevitable" that some parts of sharia would be enshrined in this country's legal code. Earlier this week the former Prime Minister Tony Blair backed the Archbishop. He commented in The Church of England Newspaper: "I thought at the time all this was a lot of fuss over nothing."
But in a written submission to the Treasury, the Christian Legal Centre and CCFON said that any change could radically change the fundamental basis of British society through its financial regulation. >>> By Judy West | Friday, March 6, 2009
NATIONAL SECULAR SOCIETY: Raise Your Voice against Sharia Law
The demonstration and meeting to protest at the introduction of sharia law into Britain will take place Saturday 7 March in Central London. We urge you to be there.
The One Law for All Campaign is calling on members and supporters of the NSS to come along to the demo and raise their voice against the rising clamour for official recognition of the pernicious sharia system of injustice. We will also be objecting to all religious-based tribunals that operate here of any religion. >>> | Friday, March 6, 2009
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