European Parliament To Consider "Charter of Muslim Understanding"

This week the European Parliament will be presented with a "Proposed Charter of Muslim Understanding" authored by Sam Solomon, a Sharia law expert. According to this week's Human Events, the document, which backers hope will be signed by European groups representing Muslims, calls on Muslims to respect other religions, promote the precedence of national laws over Sharia, and respect the Western traditions of freedom of belief and expression. Reporting on the proposal, today's Jerusalem Post quotes London Member of the European Parliament, Gerard Batten, who will introduce the proposal: "The views of so-called fundamentalists who believe in Islamic theocracy are simply incompatible with Western liberal democracy..."