Are any of you aware of What Judicial Appeasement means?

Question

The Muslim Council of Britain is slowly chipping away at Western culture.

The MCB wants British schools to enact special rules for the benefit of Muslim students. Western educational systems do not fit with Islamic traditions ... so let's change them! Muslims want to benefit from the education of British schools, and yet they refuse to follow the rules of those schools.

Here is a list of some of the "demands" the Muslim Council of Britain has suggested in order to "accommodate" Muslim children.

No dance classes (because dancing is forbidden in Muslim culture). All contact sports, basketball and football (that would be soccer for us Americans), must be played in single gender groups. School trips should be single sex, so Muslims will be encouraged to participate. Rather than wearing regulation uniforms, Muslim girls should be allowed to wear the hijab. The school can choose the color though. How kind. Boys should be able to grow beards, like the Prophet Muhammad, even though it violates British schools grooming policies. During Ramadan there cannot be science lessons related to sexual health, no parent-teacher meetings, immunizations, or scheduled exams. Apparently safe sex is to be avoided during Ramadan. Oh and no swimming lessons during Ramadan. You are not supposed to eat or drink during daylight hours, and if you swim you might swallow some pool water. Besides, non-believers may have peed in those pools. When you can swim, boys must be covered from navel to neck (what about below the navel?) and girls must completely cover up. Not just Muslim girls ... ALL girls cannot show any skin except for their face and hands. Arabic foreign language classes should be offered for Muslim students. In art classes, Muslim children shall not be allowed to draw people. Drawing people is forbidden under some interpretations of Islamic law. Killing people is not. Prayer rooms with proper washing facilities (separated by gender) must be offered. And all British children should be taught about the peaceful religion of Islam. But Muslim children can withdraw from any class lecture on other faiths like Christianity. This isn't just one isolated group making these suggestions. There are 1.6 million Muslims living in Great Britain and 96% of them are educated in the British government school system.

wrong again Coragryph:

it's not just a U.K problem, it's happeningh all over europe right now.

furthermore;
In an article written by David Kennedy Houck, titled “ The Islamist Challenge to the U.S. Constitution” This trend is now crossing the Atlantic, as the Muslim community in the United States grows, an increasingly active Islamist lobby has submitted numerous white papers and amicus briefs to legislators and courts arguing for the religious right of Muslims to apply Shari‘a law, particularly in relation to family law disputes. Islamist community leaders in the United States are now challenging the principles of assimilation and equality once central to the civil rights movement, seeking instead to live according to a separate but equal philosophy. The Gwynnoaks Muslim Residential Development group, for example, has established an informal enclave in Baltimore because, according to John Yahya Cason, director of the Islamic Education and Community Development Initiative.

Answer 1

Judicial appeasement is when the judges do things because the public wants them to behave a certain way, regardless of what the law actually says.

Judges should follow the law. Period. Regardless of whether that law is popular or not. If people don't like the laws, they can change the laws. But people shouldn't expect judges to ignore the laws....

But also consider the context. Not meaning to bash England -- but England has a long history of imposing religious practices as a matter of law. One of the reasons we in the colonies made it such a point of preventing govt sponsored religion.

So, is it really such a shock that another religion is trying to get the same treatment -- govt-mandated religious practices, and laws/rules based on religious reasons only?

I'm not saying I agree with them -- I'm trying to explain how they are reaching their conclusion that the govt can and should mandate activities to conform to religious practices.

Answer 2

Okay

FP