Shariah law for the UK?

On Sunday last week, I took a trip to the Globe Theatre in London to see the Scottish play.

Unfortunately, as I drove past the East London Mosque on the Whitechapel Road, I became involved in a traffic jam caused by protestors who had apparently rallied in response to the recently cancelled English Defense League march. Some sort of confrontation was clearly taking place and we were somewhat relieved when we were clear of the area.

However, this has prompted me to reflect on demands for shariah law to be introduced in the UK.

Apparently, this is the law of God and therefore is above the laws of men. Absolute bollocks! This is the law of men represented as being the law of God - not quite the same thing...

Regardless of this, we live in a country which is tolerant of religious views and gives it's people the right to peaceful protest. Note the word 'peaceful'.

In this country we live according to the laws laid down by our democratically elected government and these laws are tried in tested in our courts. By all means exercise your democratic right to campaign to change them and to field candidates for parliament who you can vote for in a general election.

BUT - and this is a big but - at the end of the day, if you do not like the way we do things in this country, then please exercise your democratic right to fuck off and live somewhere else...