Britain’s most senior judge declared last night that there was no place for Sharia courts in this country and insisted that all residents were governed by the laws of England and Wales.

The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, told an audience of several hundred at the London Muslim Centre in Whitechapel that those who chose to live in England and Wales had to accept the laws as they found them.

“There is no question of such [Sharia] courts sitting in this country or such sanctions being applied here.

“So far as the law is concerned, those who live in this country are governed by English and Welsh law and subject to the jurisdiction of the English and Welsh courts,” he said.

But Lord Phillips, in one of his last speeches before retiring as Lord Chief Justice to become senior law lord in autumn, defended Sharia principles.

A Muslim was free to practise his or her own faith and live his or her life in accordance with those principles, yet not be in conflict with the law.

People’s view of Sharia was often coloured by extremists who “invoke it, perversely, to justify terrorist atrocities such as suicide bombing”.

It was not Sharia, but sanctions imposed in some Muslim countries - such as flogging, stoning, cutting off hands, or killing - that would conflict with our laws. “There can be no question of such sanctions being applied to or by any Muslim who lives within this jurisdiction,” he said.

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Note:  7:30 pm and I’m gone.  Brits are a hoot with their “Lords and Ladies”.  Who knew that you could buy one of these titles if you have enough money?  Sounds “sorta like” the Order of Canada.   There is no meaning to it all all.  Socialists have destroyed our history and our honors by pandering them to the highest bidder.

Goodnight.

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