Islamic law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.Posted by Vox at September 15, 2008 11:43 AM | LawThe government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.
England is the laxist of the European countries- part of the reason that the new atheists have all been from there. As it is, the country shows a distressing habit of rolling over- unlike the rest of Europe it didn't reprint the cartoons. They didn't want their windows smashed.
The rest of Europe... varies. Denmark has zero chance of giving into this sort of pressure, while the rest of Europe varies. Asit is, the problem ranges somewhere between "shira law" and "Watts, but with North Africans instead of blacks".
As it is, much of Europe is unlikely to back down too much- the ga between them and shira lawis HUGE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Europe