The Answer to Hiskett’s Question, Tragically, is “No!”—30-years ago British scholar of Islam Hiskett asked whether UK political elites had “the moral guts” to defend Western pluralism, v. Sharia, “or will they simply give way, bit by bit & point by point, to insistent & sustained pressure from the Muslim ‘Parliament’”?’

Feb 27th 2024 8:23am EST

The late respected British scholar of Islam, Dr. Mervyn Hiskett, in his Some to Mecca Turn to Pray, noted then (i.e., in 1993) the prevailing opinion among leaders of the British Muslim community that unless Muslim immigrants to Britain were allowed unrestrained access to Islamic law, Sharia, in all aspects, Britain was to be regarded, Dar-al-Harb, or the House […]

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