Shariah Law Imposed in UK Government Buildings, No Kidding!

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Shariah Law Imposed in UK Government Buildings, No Kidding!
by S. Noble • January 30, 2016   
 

The British MPs have to move out of the Palace of Westminster while it undergoes repairs over the next decade but the building they will move into at the Department of Health is governed by Shariah law. Bars are banned and they won’t be allowed to drink.

The building was transferred to finance an Islamic bond scheme in 2014.  George Osborne announced it would turn the UK into a “western hub of Islamic finance” and the “undisputed center of the global financial system.”

Three Government buildings in Whitehall were transferred to Islamic bonds, switching the ownership from British taxpayers to wealthy Middle Eastern businessmen and banks.

Under Islamic law, interest payments are prohibited so bond-buyers earn rental income from the three government offices. The Treasury agreed to make the offices fully compliant with Sharia law so investors wouldn’t be put off.

The bonds – known as Sukuk – are only available for purchase by Islamic investors. The money raised will be repayable from 2019.

One has to wonder if they were drunk when they made this deal.

This information comes via The Times. A Whitehall official told The Times that “It’s true. If MPs want to use Richmond House they’d better give up any hopes it will include a bar.”

It’s not about the bars, it’s about the principle. One has to wonder if the British people know this is going on.

Putting government buildings under Sharia law is a decidedly bad idea. There doesn’t seem to be any will to fight this in the west.

No wonder we won our independence from these people.

http://www.independentsentinel.com/shariah-law-imposed-in-uk-government-buildings-no-kidding/

[EC]

I hate to tell you this, oh plagiarist of a mis-spelled Daily Fail "think" piece:

Alcohol is banned in all government buildings, with the exception of the Palace of Westminster itself. Has been for decades. Sod all to do with sharia.

[Paladin]

I hate to tell you this, oh plagiarist of a mis-spelled Daily Fail "think" piece:

Alcohol is banned in all government buildings, with the exception of the Palace of Westminster itself. Has been for decades. Sod all to do with sharia.

You are the expert on such matters, EC, but I do wonder just how much of Sharia law will be applied. Will the women, for example, be required to wear a hijab or even a burqa? Will they be allowed to enter the building or wander around in it without a male escort? Will service dogs be prohibited? How far does this go?

[EC]

You are the expert on such matters, EC, but I do wonder just how much of Sharia law will be applied. Will the women, for example, be required to wear a hijab or even a burqa? Will they be allowed to enter the building or wander around in it without a male escort? Will service dogs be prohibited? How far does this go?

Not exactly an expert, but I do know a few bits and pieces.

Very little, if anything, will result from this.

Service dogs will be welcomed, of course. Women will be fine with brazenly uncovered hair and no guardian to keep their vacant little heads on the straight and narrow.

It's a bond, basically, without the risks of most bonds as it's based on physical assets, as is all Islamic finance. If you are a bond holder you don't own a portion of the debt, you own room 37, 3rd floor.
Suluks may not be used to finance anything sinful (just like the ethical bonds some finance services offer) - so, bars, pig farms, smoking rooms, brothels can not be built with suluk finance. It is the intent of the building that counts - a suluk financed hotel, for example, would not have a bar in it. Mini-bars in the rooms, however, are absolutely fine as they are both removable and put in by the tenants, not the bondholders. The same hotel couldn't be designed to raise pigs on an attached farm, but pork can be on the menu in the kitchens - as again, that is up to the tenants.

So, nothing much, really.