A number of Americans have approached me in the last 24 hours to ask me just what is going on in my home country. One even went so far as to print from the Internet a copy of an article which appeared in last weeks Sunday Times.

Americans are baffled as to how the British Government  could allow sharia courts to enforce rulings in Britain and be  also enforceable under British law. Whilst I understand that it is a loophole in the legal system I fail to understand why in 13 months it hasn’t been closed.

Perhaps that is a little disingenuous of me because I can see why I just don’t believe the shortsighted stupidity that has allowed it to remain open. It suits the political ambitions of the “loudest minorities” I wrote about in the series “This Sceptred Isle.”

Let us make no mistake here; this is nothing short of an act of treason which will leave British allies in the so called “war on terror” wondering just how much they can trust the British Government for support.

The British legal system has been seriously undermined and the silent majority of the country must be wondering if they suddenly woke up one morning and found that they had all emigrated to cloud cuckoo land.

It has long been suspected in Britain that there is a law for the rich and one for the poor but now it seems that there is a law for anyone who wants it? How long will it be before the Germans want their own law or the French? How about a special Al Qaeda court? (You bombed and killed how many????? Award this man 40 virgins and a lollypop!” How about a special court for oil companies? Do you see how when you  put your toe on this road you will rapidly find that there is no end to it.

The British have always prided themselves on the fairness of their justice system forged over the period of a millennia. How can a so called civilised race operate two systems of law and still claim to be fair and equitable? How long is it before a Muslim commits the crime of murder and demands to be tried under sharia law rather than the law of the land? Once again we are looking at the thin end of an extremely fat wedge and this wedge has the potential to wedge open Pandora’s box.

Whatever happened to to the concept of emigrating to a country and then respecting the laws of your adopted homeland?

Of course at the bottom of all of this is the man of inaction himself: The Right Honourable Gordon Brown M.P. Leader of the Labour party and Prime Minister of the Disunited Kingdom. Looking at his record from 5,000 miles he seems as much use as a chocolate fireguard. A man who seems intent on throwing the Labour party back into political abyss that Tony Blair worked so hard to drag it out of.

The Muslims are exploiting a loophole of British law and the British Government should act now to close this loophole before they find it tied around their necks and the British people decide to tighten it for them.