Sticking with today’s Euro theme our gaze turns to Ireland, the land of my mother’s people. It seems like only yesterday that the Irish punt gave way to the euro, but time has run on and now the hand of distant Brussels reaches over to Eire:
THE EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights is considering a case that could lead to the end of the current system of jury trial, The Irish Times has learned.
However, the Government has robustly defended the Irish jury system in a document submitted to the court.
This follows a decision last year from the human rights court, in a case against Belgium, that a man had not received a fair trial because the jury in his case had not given reasons for their decision.
If this decision becomes the authoritative view of the Strasbourg court it will have to be followed by the Government as a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights. This would lead to a fundamental change in the centuries-old system of jury trial.
Participating in the Eurozone clearly comes as a mixed blessing, for Ireland’s increasingly globalized financial sector is now aggressively pursuing a seat at the table of the Islamic banking system, according to IslamOnline:
Seeking to get a share in the growing Islamic finance industry, the Irish government has presented a new bill allowing Shari`ah-compliant financial transactions, reported the Irish Times on Friday, February 5.
(The measure is) one of the most significant boosts for the IFSC [International Financial Services Center] n the last decade,” said director Brendan Kelly.
Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan on Thursday proposed amending tax laws to allow Shari`ah-compliant transactions.
The changes would help to “make Ireland the location of choice as firms rebuild in the aftermath of the global economic crisis,” Kelly said
Good business, I’m sure, but at what cost to the Emerald Isle?
A muslim is taking a landmark High Court case demanding that the Irish state recognise his polygamous marriage.
The man is from Lebanon, where polygamy is permitted. He is married to two women and has been granted Irish citizenship.
Seven years ago the Department of Justice refused to grant the man’s first wife a visa. The Lebanese entered Ireland with his second wife and claimed asylum. His first wife did not arrive until much later. The man has children with both women.
After its decision was challenged, the justice department agreed to quash its refusal to issue a visa to the first wife. But as part of this settlement the man is required to ask the High Court to rule on the validity of his marriage under section 29 of the 1995 Family Law Act.
The state and the wives are all represented in the case. The residency rights of both spouses will depend on the decision. A number of similar cases are awaiting the outcome.
But not by jury trial it seems, not unless Irish jurors can give sufficiently compelling reasons for their decision.
‘I am of Ireland,
And the Holy Land of Ireland,
And time runs on,’ cried she.
‘Come out of charity,
Come dance with me in Ireland.’ – W.B. Yeats
One worries when a group as stubbornly indepenent as the Irish roll over for the Euro Fascists in Brussels. How very, very, sad.
IIRC it wasn’t the Irish populace’s idea to submit to Brussels, it was their government’s.
I’m sure this will be applauded by our Ivory Tower crowd because, as Cap’n Lex stated so well in another post:
I half way expect to see this hit California soon.
Ahhh… now there’s a solution to the California deficit. The Sharia banking system… for all the money that’s in it, of course.
OH, lordy, DON’T give the capons any more ideas.
Not just Ireland. General Electric recently made a big commitment to sukuk (Islamic bonds, compliant with Shariah) by selling $1 billion in sukuk. Much more is planned.
One wonders why do they do that? when the Islamists consider themselves under no compulsion to honor promises with infidels.
OTOH, lookee here: the Boy Scouts are getting in on the action. Merit badges for restoring female honor, anyone?
In this case the infidels will have their money. While I know very little about sukuk, I think Islamic law requires repayment in (gold?) specie. A new ball game.
As relates to your second link-is the next expectation to include in Allah we trust on our currency??
Hadn’t occurred to me, Wilko, but maybe it should have. I find it odd to think the Scouts have stiff-armed the man-lovers only to crumble to the man-haters.
Actually, what does the intention of the Irish government and Ireland’s increasingly globalized financial sector to aggressively pursuing a seat at the table of the Islamic banking system have to do with the European Union? This is just globalization that is going where the money is. Like Iceland did.
Please do not recite old French/EU papers from the seventies on “Eurabia”. They were designed to get France more influence in Northern-Africa and where the oil is and as serious as any promises on Arabian nights.
One nibbled piece at a time, the jihad marches on through Europe! That’s what it has to do with it. A Euro here, a polygamus family there, a ruling against jury trials and the next step is to accept a Sharia ruling in place of a judicial judgment. Nibble, nibble. Hey, they are even remembering the Boy Scouts via a merit badge.
Their attack on European society is total. Financial, judicial, education, and even the youth. That’s what it has to do with it!!! The only thing they need to do is wait and their birth rate will take care of the rest, if they haven’t won the struggle sooner.
The question is: will they prevail and/or will we?
I keep telling everybody they’d better start packing up the contents of all the great museums and art galleries of Europe for shipment over here if any evidence of the fruits of Western Civilization are to be saved. And I hope everyone has reconciled themselves to the fresco’s of the Sistine Chapel and every other piece of in-place art-work and statuary being whitewashed and/or blown out of existence as well.
The Taliban’s “restoration” of those stone-carved mountain-side Buddahs in Afghanistan are telling, chilling, testament to what is on the horizon and rapidly approaching…
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