[lit-ideas] Will Britain accept Sharia Law?
- From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 16:19:30 -0400
>> The rulings of arbitration tribunals are binding in law, provided that both
>> parties in the dispute agree to give it the power to rule on their case.
Regardless of repetition, this is always fascinating stuff.
One imagines a Miami-based religion with 10,000 adherents – call it Delphinism
-- who worship dolphins as gods, have fussy, cruel rituals about slaughtering
animals – the dolphins must approve by leaping, the animals beaten with clubs
– and who force all their female offspring to wear football helmets with
oversized Miami Dolphins logos whenever they appear in public. These
Delphinists have their own legal system, where a judge, called a “Flipper,”
strikes people with tuning forks to determine just outcomes.
The Delphinists convince the US federal government, the Florida state
government, and the Miami municipal government to allow them to impose their
own justice on adherents. All these civic entities more or less say, “Sure!
Excuse us for existing.”
What a nightmare!
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