Is Britain turning into an Islamic state?

Caving In - The Islamization of Britain

The last I knew Britain was not an Islamic state. Its long history has been mostly rooted in Christianity, however that seems to be rapidly changing.

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Over the years, Muslim immigrants started imposing their values on the Brits and the native population has slowly been forced to adapt, through fear of offending. Normally, immigrants are expected to integrate into the societies of their host country, that's certainly what is expected of westerners in Islamic states like Saudi Arabia and Iran; foreigners are expected to adhere to the laws of those lands. Visitors in Saudi Arabia are warned about the following:

The Interior Ministry yesterday requested non-Muslim residents in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to respect the Muslim holy month of Ramadan

But many Muslims in Britain (and all over the world, for that matter) are refusing to assimilate, and are actually demanding that westerners conform to their way of life.

In a recent poll 44% of British Muslims would rather remain segregated. In a 2006 poll, almost 23% (370,000 of the 1.6 million U.K. Muslims) believed 7/7 was justified and 1/3 of all Muslims in England would prefer to live under shari'a law. It seems that wish has already been granted.

"ISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases. 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. Rulings issued by a network of five sharia courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through the county courts or High Court. Previously, the rulings of sharia courts in Britain could not be enforced, and depended on voluntary compliance among Muslims."

Some will argue that Jews and Catholics have their own form of shari'a with their family courts and marriage tribunals. And although I have trouble with any religious laws superseding civil law, the fundamental difference (and it's a huge one) is that those tribunals are for believers only, whereas there are Muslims who believe that shari'a should be applicable to Muslims and non-Muslims alike. The following is a statement from a group in the U.K. called Supporters of Shariah (SOS):

"Muslims and non-Muslims are being oppressed throughout the world. SOS is one of the organizations struggling to remove the oppression created by man- made laws. So that the whole of mankind can enjoy the freedom, purity and justice of living under Allah's laws-The Shari'ah."

Muslims are also forcing their religious compulsions on others. A Muslim cab driver in England refused to allow a blind woman in his mini-cab because she had a guide-dog, which they consider unclean. This is a distressing problem worldwide, and is outright discrimination.

Even though polygamy is illegal in the U.K., the British government is now allowing Muslim men

living in a "harem" with multiple wives {snip} to claim state benefits for all their different partners. A Muslim man with four spouses - which is permitted under Islamic law - could receive £10,000 a year in income support alone.

He could also be entitled to more generous housing and council tax benefit, to reflect the fact his household needs a bigger property.

Muslim female medical students in some British Universities are refusing to roll up their sleeves to scrub down, because it goes against Islamic modesty laws, flouting a Department of Health mandate which states that

"all doctors must be "bare below the elbow. The measure is deemed necessary to stop the spread of infections such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile, which have killed hundreds."

Some families and friends of patients in U.K. hospitals are also refusing to use anti-bacterial gels that the hospitals have implemented in their battle against the killer MRSA, because it contains alcohol. I don't drink alcohol, but I have no problem using these gels. It's not as if one is ingesting it.

And then there are some supermarket workers who are refusing to handle alcohol at checkout, or re-stocking shelves with cans and bottles. Should they then make concessions to vegetarians, as well?

A Marks and Spencer store assistant refused to touch a children's book "First Bible Stories", that a grandmother was trying to purchase for her grandchild, because it was unclean.

The Boy Scouts in Dundee, Scotland a traditionally Christian organization will now adopt an Islamic pledge.

A school in northern England stopped teaching about the holocaust and the crusades in order not to offend Muslims.

In 2003, a Brit school banned any books mentioning pigs. Then in 2007 another church school renamed the "3 Little Pigs" story. Then in 2008:

"A story based on the Three Little Pigs has been banned from an annual school awards in case it offends Muslims... and builders! The Three Little Cowboy Builders, a re-telling of the classic fairy tale, was rejected because "the use of pigs raises cultural issues". Judges said it could also offend builders."

British banks stopped giving out piggy banks because they feared it might offend Muslims.

A British soap opera, Coronation Street, deliberately hid a cross in a wedding scene in a church, so as to avoid offending non-Christians. But the only non-Christians that might be offended are Muslims, no-one else cares about those kinds of things.

And in spite of all these concessions the British people and government are making, in order to not offend their Muslim population, British Mullah Anjum Chaudri calls killing non-Muslims legitimate.

Where is this all going to end? If someone prefers to live under Islamic Law, it would behoove them to move to a country that supports it.