Twenty-three percent of British Muslims support the introduction of sharia law to replace the laws crafted by Parliament, according to a new study in the UK. The former head of Britain’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Trevor Phillips, is helping to present the study as a way of making up for having gotten “almost everything wrong” during his tenure in government.  While heading the commission he led the formation of an official report that created and popularized the term “Islamophobia” as a way of stigmatizing any criticism of Islam or of mass Muslim immigration.

Now, he admits he was wrong about everything.

An ICM poll released to the Times, in Britain, ahead of the broadcast reveals:

• One in five Muslims in Britain never enter a non-Muslim house

• 39 per cent of Muslims, male and female, say a woman should always obey her husband

• 31 per cent of British Muslims support the right of a man to have more than one wife

• 52 per cent of Muslims did not believe that homosexuality should be legal

• 23 per cent of Muslims support the introduction of Sharia law rather than the laws laid down by parliament

The documentary will portray the U.K.’s Muslims as a “nation within a nation” that has its own geography and values.

His comments ought to improve the debate over mass immigration, at least.  Since the 1997 report he commissioned, concern about large-scale Muslim immigration has been treated as if it were literally a psychological disorder.  A “phobia” is a groundless, irrational fear that ought to be trained out of a person by aversion therapy or some other treatment.  It is not in any way a concern to be taken seriously.  It is simply a disorder that must be corrected.

Now we learn that those who were raising these concerns were right all along.  The fear that the massive importation of Muslims would create significant changes in British culture turns out to be perfectly well-grounded.  The suggestion that it would create a growing bloc of voters who wanted to repeal the unwritten British constitution in favor of sharia law was not a part of a ‘phobia’ at all.  It was simply true.

Phillips also acknowledges that it is not the general run of British society, but the Muslims themselves, who are possessed of sexism and racism.  Speaking of the child-rape scandals that have plagued England’s cities with large Muslim communities, Phillips wrote:  “The contempt for white girls among some Muslim men has been highlighted by the recent scandals in Rotherham, Oxford, Rochdale and other towns. But this merely reflects a deeply ingrained sexism that runs through Britain’s Muslim communities.”  (Emphasis added.)

Now he is trying to fix his mistakes.  His proposals include the very things this site and others suggest as obvious, common-sense steps:  “halting the growth of sharia courts,” watching mosques with extremist funding, and an end to avoiding criticism of Islamic law and communities in return for votes.  If Britain is to survive, it has to reclaim its soul.