15 years ago the Anti-IrishTimes ran this article:
Would Sharia Law Work In Ireland?
Stoning and amputation might grab the headlines, but sharia law is as much a moral code as a legal one, and many in Ireland’s Muslim community would like to see it practised here in certain cases, writes Mary Fitzgerald
A 2006 poll found that more than a third - 36 per cent - of Irish Muslims surveyed would prefer if Ireland were ruled under sharia law. Some Muslim clerics here play down such findings but say they would favour the introduction of separate sharia-based civil courts that Irish Muslims could use for family-related matters.
…The European court of human rights has twice ruled that sharia is incompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy, citing its rules on inheritance, women’s rights and religious freedom as violating human rights.
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