[ April 10, 2026 ]
One has to wonder how long this legal precept will last when two legal systems are in direct conflict and competition in the UK — British law and Sharia law. We see time and time again that anywhere that Western law and Sharia law conflict, it is Western law that must give way.
There are scores of sharia courts in the UK, and the number is only growing. It is only a matter of time before a defendent’s claim of being a “soldier of Allah” will indeed be a permissible defense.
Any country that would ban me for opposing jihad is well on its way to sanction of warfare in the cause of Islam.
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UK: Prosecutor in trial of jihad murderers of British soldier on London street reminds jury that Islam is not on trial (thanks to Robert Spencer)
At the site of the murder, Mujahid Abu Hamza (Michael Adebolajo) said: “But we are forced by the Qur’an, in Sura At-Tawba, through many ayah in the Qu’ran, we must fight them as they fight us.” More recently, he has said of the murder: “I obeyed Allah and that is the end of the story for me….I believe the best way to conduct any act is to copy Mohammed.” If Britain were remotely a sane society at this point, such statements would trigger a searching public discussion of the teachings of Islam and the need for Muslims in Britain and elsewhere in the West to reject the elements of Islamic law and Islamic teaching that conflict with otherwise universally held principles of human rights. Instead, judges like this Whittam and even Prime Minister Cameron say that the crime had nothing to do with Islam — and why? Because they really, really don’t want it to.
“Lee Rigby trial: Judge says ‘being a soldier of Allah is not a defence,'” from the Daily Star, December 17:
BEING a “soldier of Allah” is no defence for the murder of Lee Rigby, a judge ruled today.And prosecutor Richard Whittam QC told jurors at the Old Bailey Adebolajo and Adebowale‘s “barbarous” actions could only amount to murder.
Judge Mr Justice Sweeney gave a ruling there was nothing in the defendants’ argument that they were acting as “soldiers of Allah” that could justify the killing.
He told the jury: “It is alleged that the defendants murdered Lee Rigby.
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“I have ruled that nothing said by the first defendant (Adebolajo) and in particular his evidence that he was a soldier of Allah and was justified in doing what he did amounts in law to a defence to this count (murder) so nothing that he has said amounts in law to a defence to murder.”
In his closing speech Mr Whittam said: “The actions of these two men, acting together as they did, crashing their car and breaking Lee Rigby’s back, and then killing him is indefensible in law in this country.”
Lee Rigby was killed on May 22 this year in a shock attack.
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