David at Brits at Their Best begs to differ with the Lord Chief Justice on the worthiness of sharia law becoming part of the legal system of England any time soon.Lord Phillips began his un-British speech to Muslims in a mosque by "describing his maternal grandparents' arrival in Britain in 1903 - Sephardic Jews who eloped from Alexandria and their families' attitudes 'because they understood that England was a country in which they would enjoy freedom'". In complete contradiction to this opening, which was described by Matthew Parris, he went on to suggest that Muslims in Britain could choose to observe sharia law.
What does one say to a nitwit? To a Lord Chief Justice who evidently knows nothing important about common law and its insistence that the law must be common to all and no one must be above or beyond the common law in Britain?
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