The problem in the uk is not a simple one and it is very different to being in qatar.
If you are in a minority in the uk you have more rights than the majority.
In theory it is a majority christian country but many cities have banned the use of the word christmas in their celebrations and now call it winter festival so that no-one in the minority will feel offended.
here are some figures from the 2001 census
Christian 71.6%
No religion 15.5%
Muslim 2.7%
Hindu 1.0%
Jedi knight 0.7%
Sikh 0.6%
Jewish 0.5%
of course that is just what they write on a census, the majority don't actually practice and don't belong to a church
i think it's great that the uk allows people to follow the faith of their choice and allows freedom of speech, but i hope that the laws will not change in favour of sharia as these people want. Sharia is fundamentally not wrong but where will it lead to ironically the very people that now enjoy the freedoms they enjoy in the uk would lose them.
the other problem is that the majority never speak up and when they do they are branded as racist or worse. the only people from the uk that you ever hear speaking up are so fed up with the way things are run that they are now living and working in places like qatar!
i don't know if there is a solution to this debate?
The problem in the uk is not a simple one and it is very different to being in qatar.
If you are in a minority in the uk you have more rights than the majority.
In theory it is a majority christian country but many cities have banned the use of the word christmas in their celebrations and now call it winter festival so that no-one in the minority will feel offended.
here are some figures from the 2001 census
Christian 71.6%
No religion 15.5%
Muslim 2.7%
Hindu 1.0%
Jedi knight 0.7%
Sikh 0.6%
Jewish 0.5%
of course that is just what they write on a census, the majority don't actually practice and don't belong to a church
i think it's great that the uk allows people to follow the faith of their choice and allows freedom of speech, but i hope that the laws will not change in favour of sharia as these people want. Sharia is fundamentally not wrong but where will it lead to ironically the very people that now enjoy the freedoms they enjoy in the uk would lose them.
the other problem is that the majority never speak up and when they do they are branded as racist or worse. the only people from the uk that you ever hear speaking up are so fed up with the way things are run that they are now living and working in places like qatar!
i don't know if there is a solution to this debate?