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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Feb. 19, 2008

Lost in Translation

Forum Column - By Richard Brent Reed - Establishing a separate court system for Muslim family law disputes - a proposal being mulled in England - could cause many problems in America.

FORUM COLUMN

By Richard Brent Reed
This article appears on Page 6.

      Respect for the same body of law is part of that glue that holds a democratic society together." So said Nick Clegg, leader of Britain's Liberal Democrat Party in response to the fatalistic prediction of Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury, that it was more or less inevitable that Islamic law - sharia - would be accepted in Great Britain. Britain...

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