Under Saudi Arabia's interpretation of Islamic Sharia law, women are not allowed in public in the company of men other than their male relatives, as a consequence of this a 21 year old Saudi woman has been sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison after she was the victim of a gang rape.

As I have blogged before Sharia law is taking a foothold in many large cities in the UK, a vast majority of Muslims would prefer to live under Sharia law some even claiming that UK law does not apply to them, only Sharia as perscribed by muhammad.

I read with great interest Peter Hitchens column in this weeks 'Mail on Sunday' where he warns that the 'Clear and fierce' Islam offers a 'Warm club' for people to join and ends the article "Don't be suprised if it becomes our majority religion in the next century"

Hitchens wrote in 2003; "If bureaucratic police and feeble justice continue to fail to suppress crime and disorder, will the savage but simple remedies of Sharia law begin to appeal to the British poor, who are already weary of seeing dishonesty triumph everywhere and lawless violence go unchecked?"

I agree that our police forces are overstretched, and swamped in red tape but is the answer Sharia law? I think not. Perhaps our many Muslims would like to see "mutaween" - religious police to you and me on the streets instead of, or as well as our great British bobbies. I'm sure the loony liberals would love it too adding to our great sense of multicultural Britain.

In truth the reality is quite different, back in 2002 Saudi religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress the 15 girls died in the fire - an isolated incident? no, beatings (often to death) are commonly doled out by the religious police for any breaches of Islamic law however slight.

This is the whole problem with Islam, it is the bona fide Jekyll and Hyde of religion, on one hand preaching peace and tolerance and on the other encouraging young men to blow themselves to smithereens for the cause in return for a room full of virgins upon their arrival in 'paradise'

Islam is an all encompassing darkness creeping slowly across Britain, do we want an Islamic state? Sharia law? of course not - the middle ages are gone and forgotten except it seems for the followers of Islam who seem stuck there in a brutal, barbaric timewarp that is slowly sucking us all in.