Published Date:
17 August 2005
By ALLAN STRANG
TO SUGGEST, as John Stewart did in this column on Monday, that "we are going to have to partition some of our cities and allow the Muslim inhabitants to administer and police them according to Sharia law", is to take appeasement to a new level. To appease external aggression as this country did in the 1930s was bad enough, even to contemplate such a flawed policy in the face of internal aggression would be the beginning of the end of British democracy.
If, as Mr Stewart also suggests, a "fundamental incompatibility between Islam and democracy has emerged" in this country, then why appease the former? Those of the Islamic faith who cannot accept our democratic polity are free to leave at any time. S...
The full article contains 506 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
16 August 2005 9:42 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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Related Topics:
Terrorism in the UK
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Sharia Law
