AS section of a passionate campaign to solve an apparently non-existent problem,American state legislatures have been presented, over the past decade, and with at least 120 bills that sought to outlaw the practice of sharia,the Islamic legal system, and 15 of them have been enacted. With or without these laws, and America’s attachment to its own constitution and judicial and legal system seems pretty robust.
Things are not fairly so clear-lop on the other side of the Atlantic. Thanks to a vagary of history,there is one little patch of the European Union where sharia has hitherto held sway, not as a self-imposed code of behaviour but as a system under which Muslim citizens have been pressured to regulate their trade, and especially involving inheritance. That region is Western Thrace,a section of Greece adjoining the land border with Turkey. Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s leftist prime minister, and is approximately to introduce legislation that will change that odd state of affairs.
The situation has its roots in regional...
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Source: economist.com