increasingly bifurcated English legal system
Posted by Rueben on Monday, 05 February 2007 14:07:27
Dear David
what is your stand on the issue of the state of our increasingly bifurcated English legal system
England is on the verge of having a bifurcated legal system, one for their various religious peoples and one for the rest of the population. Two recent stories show the degradation of the British legal system and the inequities that it creates.
Naturally, the BBC strives to make it seem as if all is right and good with this destruction of the English legal system because, after all, these people are just doing what "their culture" requires that they do, neatly ignoring the fact that they are in England and NOT back in their own homeland.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6190080.stm
However, the BBC Radio 4 programme Law in Action produced evidence yesterday that it was being used by some Muslims as an alternative to English criminal law. Aydarus Yusuf, 29, a youth worker from Somalia, recalled a stabbing case that was decided by an unofficial Somali "court" sitting in Woolwich, south-east London
Aydarus Yusuf has lived in the UK for the past 15 years, but he feels more bound by the traditional law of his country of birth - Somalia - than he does by the law of England and Wales.
"Us Somalis, wherever we are in the world, we have our own law. It's not Islamic, it's not religious - it's just a cultural thing."
Well, isn't that nice? and more importantly what do you propose to do about it?
Matthew
Post edited by Rueben on Monday, 05 February 2007 14:22:27
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