The furore greeting the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recommendation to merge aspects of the shariah law with English Law indicates not so much the nature of the controversy but the ignorance of the country at large about the facts of migration.
The existence of parallel ethnic legal systems has been a fact of life in Britain for 30 years.
And it’s not just Muslim law that’s been operating quietly in the ghettoes either. There is traditional and modern Hindu law as well as African laws.
