“Islamic law has been officially adopted in Britain,” proclaimed London’s Sunday Times yesterday. In a shocking article, the Times wrote,

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.

According to the article, some of Britain’s biggest cities already have sharia courts, including London, Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester. Courts are currently being planned for Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, of the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal, set up the courts by taking advantage of a clause in the 1996 Arbitration Act. “We realized that under the Arbitration Act we can make rulings which can be enforced by county and high courts,” he said. “The act allows disputes to be resolved using alternatives like tribunals. This method is called alternative dispute resolution, which for Muslims is what the sharia courts are.”

Under this act, citizens cannot be forced to come before sharia court, but if they do, they are required by law to obey its dictates. Melanie Phillips explained the significance of the measure a few months ago (emphasis mine):

One law for all is the very basis of legal and social justice and is the glue that binds a society together. Law is the expression of a society’s cultural identity. If there is no one law, there is no one national identity and therefore no society but instead a set of warring fiefdoms with their own separate jurisdictions.

Those within the sharia “fiefdom” are indeed warring against Britain’s national identity.

“Have more babies and Muslims can take over the UK,” Anjem Choudary, right-hand man of exiled preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed, told a meeting of young Muslims on the anniversary of 9/11, the Daily Mail reported. “It may be by pure conversion that Britain will become an Islamic state. We may never need to conquer it from the outside. We do not integrate into Christianity. We will ensure that one day you will integrate into the Sharia Islamic law.”

Saiful Islam, who is linked to an organization called Salafi Youth for Islamic Propagation, stated at the same London meeting that the next 9/11 would happen inside the UK.

With an alternative legal system growing inside Britain, and a significant minority of citizens who aim to destroy the country, the UK has a problem. For more information on this issue, and where it is leading, read our article “The Sickness in Britain’s Heart.”