Feeding The Fish

What? You mean that’s not what the Spectator’s Coffee House blog thought was worth saying?

Here are the numbers:

“Would you support or oppose there being areas of Britain in which some element of Sharia Law is introduced?”

All         34 and under         35 and over
Support:     38              44                        30
Oppose:     46              39                        54

These numbers are worrying. As Paul Goodman, the Tory shadow minister for Communities and Local Government, said in a Spectator interview last summer: ‘Moderate Islam has as its core not wishing to see different people living under different law. Not wishing to see sharia incorporated into British law.’

Now, obviously not all these people who would like to see elements of sharia introduced are extremists. Many are probably thinking of sharia-compliant mortgages and the like. But it does show just what trouble the Archbishop of Cantebury and the Lord Chief Justice are stirring up with their ill-thought out remarks on the subject.

Yes! Very worrying! 5% more young Muslims  (and not even a majority!) gave a positive answer to a woolly question! This is important! The fact that we’re talking about such a small difference or that the next column over shows that overall more Muslims OPPOSE it are of course, bad facts as  they question what we know to be true.  Also, note that there’s a link at the beginning and end of the post to Peter Obourne’s dispatches programme which talked about how the media is again and again artificially creating and distorting stories in anti-Muslim directions. My irony detector is smoking on the floor.