AMERICA’S most controversial imam – the man at the centre of the storm over plans for the “Ground Zero Mosque” in New York last year – flew into Edinburgh yesterday to tell the Festival of Spirituality and Peace that greater integration between Islam and the West depends on the incorporation of Sharia law into the legal systems of the UK and the United States as well as Muslims adopting the culture of their host countries.
[A COMMENT] Most westerners find the idea of separate legal systems existing within their countries to be unacceptable and threatening to their sense of national integrity and social cohesiveness. The fact that this imam believes the emergence of such separate legal systems is the inevitable consequence of the presence of the Muslims in the west powerfully supports the idea that Islamic culture is fundamentally incompatible with western norms.
The obvious conclusion to draw is that Muslim immigration to the western world should be strongly limited or cut off altogether. [HeraldScotland.com] Read more
