Legal accommodation of Islamic law remains politically unacceptable in Europe.

Evidence

A German family court judge caused a scandal by suggesting that the Koran was to be considered as a mitigating circumstance in a case of spousal abuse. Radical clerics in the United Kingdom say that the Muslim community should exist under sharia, independent of national law, but the idea docs not appear (yet) to have much support. This suggests that Europeans arc not yet ready to accept a special legal regime for Muslims. — Michael A. Reynolds and Thomas D. Grant, The Future of Europe and Its Muslims, 324

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• QUESTION: How has this changed since the book’s writing? The 2020s saw both formal sharia councils in the UK and backlash bans on religious arbitration — worth chasing.