From the indefatigable Taj Hargey, Chairman of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford (see here, here, and here), in the Times today:
Sir, Most thinking British Muslims vehemently reject this new “shariafication” fad in Britain (“Hardline Islamic penal sanctions”, letters, July 22). The claim that many non-Muslims are seeking redress in Sharia courts needs to be verified by an independent audit, not by some self-serving Muslim organisation that is itself a principal instigator of this unfortunate trend in British Islam (reports, July 21).
This co-ordinated campaign by pro-Saudi traditionalists to enforce medieval Muslim jurisprudence by stealth and by increments has to be resisted. The pretext of promoting a benign and benevolent juristic code is far from the truth. In reality, this corrosive Wahhabi and Salafi drive to (initially) implement selective aspects of an anachronistic legal system is nothing but the thin edge of the wedge, a Trojan horse for the later adoption and/or grafting of Islamic law on to British jurisprudence....
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