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Sharia law isn’t taking over Britain – it’s an inevitable legacy of its colonial legal history

By Femi Owolade, Research Associate, Sheffield Hallam University
Every few years, a familiar anxiety resurfaces in British public discourse: that sharia law is establishing a parallel legal system and threatening the sovereignty of English law. Those fears were reignited following Donald Trump’s recent speech to the UN, where he claimed that London wants “to go to sharia law”.

Such claims ignore two realities. First,…The Conversation


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