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Conservatives would ban sharia courts, says shadow minister

A Conservative government would ban sharia courts and impose a tough 
crackdown on Islamic extremism, the shadow security minister has said.

By Jon Swaine
Last Updated: 11:54AM BST 28 Sep 2008

Pauline Neville-Jones, a former head of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 
said: "We are not going to have any status for sharia courts. Absolutely 
not."
 
Earlier this month it emerged that the Government had quietly allowed 
rulings of five sharia courts across Britain to be enforceable through 
the county courts or High Court.
 
Lady Neville-Jones said that while minor disputes could be settled by 
"customary mediation" - including through sharia and the Jewish Beth 
Din system - there could be no formal legal recognition.
 
"We are not going to have any legal recognition of sharia judgments that 
would withstand appeal to a secular court," she said before the Tory 
conference in Birmingham, .
 
Speaking the day after Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, said 
Britain had "done something terrible to ourselves" by encouraging 
multiculturalism, Lady Neville-Jones said that the Conservatives would 
make the case for more "integration" among all British people, whatever 
their backgrounds.

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Full story at "Telegraph" UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/3096229/
Conservatives-would-ban-sharia-courts-says-shadow-minister.html

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