if the Muslims who were polled recently want sharia law why do they still live in a christian country.?

Question

refering to the poll done in britain

Answer 1

Because their beliefs have built them such a wonderously prosperous & beautiful area of the world to live in. So they come to our comunities to get in a lttle slumming. LOL.

Answer 2

Generally immigrants have moved here for the quality of life in the UK is on average better than the country they originated from. More benefits, better schools and better employment opportunities all constitute good reasons to come to the UK.
Also the ease in which immigrants can enter the UK is a factor, (as opposed to other countries like Australia and USA who vet their immigrants much harsher). Another reason is that there is already a settled immigrant community that newer immigrants join.
The Muslims who are calling for Sharia law would do so in any country. No matter what the existing national religion. They are committed to Islam and feel that Sharia law is not desirable but necessary.
I would contest your statement that this is a Christian country though, the UK is a secular country with a Christian cultural heritage.

Answer 3

There are no countries that I know of that use the Bible as a means of dispensing law. As far as Muslims wanting Sharia law . . . personally I don't think that would be a good idea, but I can see their point of view . . . even if they live in non-Muslim majority states, they naturally want to see their own moral values become more prominent since they believe that they are right and also because it would likely reduce friction and the problem of their children and people being influenced by non-Muslim morals, which in most "Christian" countries, are pretty poor. You can pretty much screw on TV nowadays and the enternatinment media is so pervasive in a free-speech country that it is hard to avoid, and they probably don't want their children to be exposed to this, but most likely do want the econonic opportunities and relatively high degree of personal freedom that Western countries offer.

Answer 4

Wanting something and realistically achieving the goal are two different things. Society needs to address the reasons behind why they feel they need or want Sharia law.

Answer 5

Presumably they left their own countries because of oppression, and came here for our tolerance of different religions and cultures. Once here and settled in, they find that there are things here they don't agree with (scantily-clad women, for example).

Unfortunately, they can't have it both ways: if you want Sharia law, go to a country that has it, but you may find you don't have freedom (of expression, to criticise the government, women to drive cars or work, etc).

On the other hand, if you want freedom, it will include not only religious freedom for you, but freedom for other people to behave in ways you might not like.

Take your pick, but don't whinge about the system of laws in this country; it was like this a long time before you arrived.

Edit: For the answerer below, and others: UK laws, and those of other Western countries, are based on the Ten Commandments, and there are still echoes (eg does 'Thou shalt not bear false witness' ring any bells?). We may not be a 'Christian country' if you are looking at church attendance, but our culture is based on Christian teachings. Not too long ago, Church and State were linked. They are now separate, but the Christian legacy is still there in our culture and laws.

Edit 2: True. A secular country with a culture based on our Christian heritage.

Answer 6

Because the muslim's know that there is no human rights
in any Islamic countries. It is only in nonislamic countries,
the muslims asks for their rights. Simple opportunism and
exploiting the humaneterian laws of the non islamic countries.
When you say ' christian countries' you are narrowing down
the vast problem facing the world, today.

Answer 7

Is that where they burn unbelievers, imprison homosexuals, torture dissidents, hang murderers and thieves, and drive people of other faiths out of the country?

Sounds a bit like England used to be not that long ago.

Answer 8

Why are they here on this soil is a good question. and one i have been pondering. If America is who America claims America will recognize them and read them as to their true intentions and America can read in more ways than are normally taught in the public school America reads according to the understanding God has given and when America can say to Muslims what is in their heart they will know America speaks the truth and our ways come from the same God of all people.

Answer 9

Ask the editor of the Daily Mail: hate and fear spurts from every page of this vile **** rag, feverishly gripped in a permanent state of outrage about, well, everything.

Answer 10

I understand that a large number of Muslim youths in this country have become radicalised. They don't believe that we will remain a Christian country much longer and, with the amount of anti Christian feeling aired on Answers, they will probably get their way. If those people who hate the CofE and the RC churches are not muslims then they are useful idiots.

Answer 11

Probably because in the next 20 years the christians will be outnumbered by the Muslims!
Just a thought!
How many people who call themselves Christians are christians?