An objective observer of the American situation and liberals in particular jokingly told me - the privileged white male can become one of the oppressed that the liberals have to protect simply by joining a labor union - preferably a public-sector one.
Similar mental contortions are needed in other cases as well. Despite 50+ countries being officially Islamic, within America the Muslim is an oppressed minority. The idea that Shariah law can come to the US is pooh-poohed as utterly fantastic.
Meanwhile back in UKistan, we are told:
Muslim Arbitration Tribunals, colloquially known as Sharia courts, have existed in the United Kingdom since 1996, when the Arbitration Act began to allow for different religious laws to be applied in cases such as divorce.While the tribunals are supposed to work within UK law, recent reports suggest that young Muslims are not registering their marriages with the government under UK civil law, instead simply using nikha ceremonies, which can lead to men having a number of wives, and none of the legal responsibility towards them usually afforded to spouses under the 1949 Marriage Act.
Now, Amra Bone, who is the UK’s first female Sharia council judge, has said that “the government cannot — ask Muslims not to have more than one wife. People have a right to decide for themselves,” implying that British Muslims are free to operate outside UK law, as a rule unto themselves and the Sharia courts they feel are legitimate.
Muslim women who enter into marriage in Islamic ceremonies are often duped into thinking that the marriage under Islamic law is enough to protect them under UK law. As such, they receive none of the usual protections under UK law, such as assets being divided in cases of divorce.
But it is OK. Women are 50% of the population, Muslims are only some small percentage of the population, and in Liberal Calculus, that makes it OK in liberal eyes for (a) Muslim men to flout the laws of the land and (b) to take advantage of women via religious law.But it isn't a surprise. Far too many Liberals don't have either the intellectual ability & honesty or the courage to take on Islam.
PS: Updated from "all liberals" to "far too many liberals"