Margaret Thatcher Quotes
It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at work. He later wrote of his astonishment at finding the that the British Parliament actually made laws and fixed punishments for their infraction - because unlike Muslims the English had not accepted a divine law revealed from heaven and therefore had to resort to such unsatisfactory expedients. Muslims still understand the expression 'the rule of law' very differently than do most Westerners.
Thatcher, Margaret. Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World. HarperCollins, 2002, p. 248.
Note that not unlike Sharia, Islamic Law, this meant the death penalty for Witchcraft, Heresy, Adultery and Disobedient Children.
When people see the process as unfair and insensitive to minority rights and issues— rammed through by one group which wants to dictate how the rest should live, they never even reach the point of considering carefully the actual language and making compromises with that. They just oppose the constitution in toto usually by finding the 2 or 3 most egregious clauses and harping on those with no attempt to improve them and rejecting the entire constitution.
The Muslim Brotherhood had won the Presidency in the first Egyptian democratic election shortly after the ouster of Mubarak when they were the only party that was organized. However, after one year of government, their performance was so bad that critics like El Baradei offered strong public criticism—especially of the preoccupation with Islam with little government attention given to freedom, human rights, and the economy which was in terrible shape. This was the focus of the pointed article title. A few days after this article was published there was an insurrection of huge crowds of Egyptians and the Muslim Brotherhood President Morsi was forced to resign.
Muslims were in the majority and there was a sizable Jewish Community in Libya. Ironically, the objection to religious law having any jurisdiction has usually been that civil rights were denied. However, the same was true (in different ways) with Fascist law.
She was explaining her antipathy to Muslim Fundamentalists having French citizenship or even sing allowed into the country.
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As prime minister, she implemented policies that became known as Thatcherism.
