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Muslim leader in call for Sharia law in UK
11:00am Monday 7th July 2008
Comments (25)A MUSLIM leader believes knife attackers should be locked up for 42 days like terror suspects.
Sarfraz Sarwar, 60, said he couldn't see the difference between the knife crime epidemic and those accused of plotting and carrying out terror attacks.
Mr Sarwar, of Gordons, Pitsea, also backed calls for Sharia law to be introduced in Britain and said public flogging should be carried out in town centres.
His comments follow those made by Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips, who said aspects of Sharia could be used to settle Islamic disputes, but not in the courts.
Mr Sarwar said: "What's the difference between knife criminals and suicide bombers?
"They should do exactly what they do with terrorists, "They should hold them for 42 days, question them and put them in prison and solve the problem."
He said Sharia law would act as a deterrent in solving crime in Britain.
He added: "If anybody is caught with a knife then give them ten lashes in the town centre.
"Sharia law is not controversial. It's a deterrent. Muslim countries don't have half the problems we have because Sharia law is there."
Aspects of Sharia law involve stoning, lashings and cutting off hands.
Mr Sarwar continues to run a minorities support group in Basildon. He was the leader of the Basildon Islamic Centre, in Laindon, before it was burnt down in 2006.
Mr Sarwar is also very concerned for the safety of Muslims today and says racial abuse has increased since the 7/7 London bombings in 2005.
He said: "What is happening is mainly to do with misunderstanding. Maybe there is just a fear of the unknown.
"It is very difficult to work out why this is. I thought we were living in a modern European country, but it is like Victorian times. There is a lot of hate."
Mr Sarwar appears in a Channel 4 documentary tonight on the anniversary of the 7/7 terror attacks.
Your Say YourEcho
Les, Basildon says...
12:17pm Mon 7 Jul 08
Pete, says...
12:39pm Mon 7 Jul 08
...err - No - just the fear of being blown into many small pieces by some nutter with explosives in a rucksack while travelling to work on a bus or train!
"It is very difficult to work out why this is. I thought we were living in a modern European country, but it is like Victorian times. There is a lot of hate."
Is the man having a laugh - he is calling for Britain to go back to the middle ages! Stoning, lashing, beheading and cutting off hands!
Les, Basildon says...
1:21pm Mon 7 Jul 08
Ossie, Westcliff says...
1:57pm Mon 7 Jul 08
If they had the power to lock anyone up who is caught carrying a knife in public for 5 days. This might concentrate the minds of the kids who carry the blades as a power trip.
jimbo, billericay says...
2:52pm Mon 7 Jul 08
And I agree, keep religion out of it, out of everything. Its all to do with respect, decency and responsibility.
dave, Southend says...
2:57pm Mon 7 Jul 08
As for Sharia law... No thankyou!
I think we would all secretly like to see these people flogged. We got rid of capital punishment years ago and it should stay that way ... Stronger penalties ie mandatory sentences are required for possession of knifes and I don't mean trophy ASBO's.
Tony Winchester, Wos says...
2:57pm Mon 7 Jul 08
What is to misunderstand Some extremist Muslim tries to blow up buses and trains possibly killing and injuring hundreds more and you expect us to understand, Oh Boy get real.
And whats more we live by British law for British people if you don't like it with all due respect you know where the door is and maybe an Islamic state elsewhere will be more accomodating in your requirements than what we British people are. after all we have bent over backwards as a nation to assist Johnnie Foreigner and his
family but trying to change rules and laws is just taking the biscuit.
Fed up with PC, Essex says...
5:08pm Mon 7 Jul 08
undertaker, crays hill says...
5:29pm Mon 7 Jul 08
Your stinking rotten hypocritical so called religion might want to live in the dark ages I dont.Good bye you wont be missed.
edwin, says...
6:23pm Mon 7 Jul 08
Les, Basildon says...
6:29pm Mon 7 Jul 08
Jes, says...
6:57pm Mon 7 Jul 08
Yet you choose to live here not there?
which planet are you on?
whenever the grass on the other side appears too bright a shade of green one should check one's eyesight.
zanny, basildon says...
9:38pm Mon 7 Jul 08
Chris, Southend says...
10:01pm Mon 7 Jul 08
Ethan, nr Dole Farm says...
9:08am Tue 8 Jul 08
One question. If we all are really rotten to him and he wants Sharia Law may I suggest that he finds a place of residence that he would feel more comfortable with? Surrounded by his fellow practioners. Abroad perhaps? Try the middle east. Syria's probably nice this time of year....
Les, Basildon says...
9:40am Tue 8 Jul 08
ya5nl and a little of just how desperate he is to get about http://tinyurl.com/5
aa8zf
and http://tinyurl.com/6
dtgnb lots of claims but I cant see any facts about any good he has brought the community he lives in?
ethan, nr dole farm says...
10:47am Tue 8 Jul 08
Les wrote:Slight typo's in there Les. For 'Pillar of the community' read..'pillock of the community'.
He is a trouble maker and keen to milk it for all it's worth. Already reported for alledged racism http://tinyurl.com/6 ya5nl and a little of just how desperate he is to get about http://tinyurl.com/5 aa8zf and http://tinyurl.com/6 dtgnb lots of claims but I cant see any facts about any good he has brought the community he lives in?
Andrew, Shoeburyness says...
12:10pm Tue 8 Jul 08
sheik yer.mami, Mecca says...
5:28pm Tue 8 Jul 08
Rubbish. They're here and NOW.
We cannot coexist . Our ancestors have fought them for 1400 years and our enlightened progressive socialists have opened the flood-gates for the soldiers of Allah to invade and take over without as much as a fight.
We will see rivers of blood in the streets if we don't reverse the Muhammedan invasion.
Les, Basildon says...
9:46am Wed 9 Jul 08
Jes, says...
4:00pm Wed 9 Jul 08
You will notice that it is only the West that goes on about "integration." In muslim countries the agenda is "conversion."
Cultural infiltration is the most effective and sucessful form of invasion.
Wake up Britain, take back your island before it is too late.
Aint it just the truth, says...
12:57pm Sat 12 Jul 08
Marc Soneur-Lipar, France says...
9:25am Sun 13 Jul 08
In turn, it will reinforce muslims in their will to go one step further in trying to submit us.
As a consequence we MUST act, in the real world, to show we are NOT willing to submit, not just type words on keyboards and screens in the virtual world.
Because islam is spreading in real life, it is in real life that we must fight it.
Let's act for real using a proofed non-violent fighting method suited to a vast majority standing up to say NO in front of a tiny minority : the Amnesty International method ! (see http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=Cf1qrJofX
58 )
A quick search on internet shows that Mr. Sarfraz Sarwar works at the Basildon Islamic Centre (destroyed by fire in 2006, by the way, see http://www.chelmsfor
d.anglican.org/605.h
tml and http://www.basildon-
islamic-centre.co.uk
/news.htm )
Address of the Centre is on page http://www.salaam.co
.uk/mosques/searchmo
sque.php?orgcode=130
01
Here we are :
1/ Print this article (single sheet of paper, two sides : File > Print... )
2/ On a second sheet, print the following loud and clear image : http://www.coranix.o
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On the other side of the sheet, you can add any other image as you whish.
3/ Put in an enveloppe, copy the address, stamp and mail.
For those willing to do more, you can send that same letter to the dhimmi of page http://www.chelmsfor
d.anglican.org/605.h
tml
His address is on page http://www.chelmsfor
d.anglican.org/bisho
ps-dean-and-archdeac
ons.html (and, why not, send a letter to the other people too if you whish).
For them, well suited additional images are : http://www.coranix.o
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and
http://www.coranix.o
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Anybody can do it, from anywhere over the PLANET.
Our liberty is at least worth a stamp isn't it ?
(and it might suggest to Mr. Sarfraz to forget about islam and collect stamps instead, who knows... :-)
Of course a letter is very light, almost no weight, but it is like snow flakes : after a while, just ONE more very light, almost no weight, snow flake will... CRUSH the roof !
Let's crush Mr. Sarfraz's roof under our tempest.
dansk-fransk, Danmark says...
9:17am Tue 15 Jul 08
Please, be kind, go to a nice muslim´s country,you´ll be safer .
Our countries are OURS not yours. We are really fed up with this bloody " religion" !
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CaptGuvnor, Sarpend, Greater Loondon says...
11:45am Mon 7 Jul 08
The chistian prophet was born approx 0 alledgedly (cause they set the time from his birth )
Therefore the muslim faith is 570 behind ours.
Rewind 500 years to England in the 16th century
Witchcraft, public executions, ducking stools, chastity belts, religeous fanatics, stocks etc etc
This christian religeous nonsense has been largely sorted out in this country now.
Sadly for all of us, the muslim faith has a lot of catching up to do and until such times, conflict will continue
The captain knows, you know!