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Axolotl

19:48 / 01.07.08

I know it's not the most reliable of sources but it does serve as a basic primer/introduction and if you approach it critically you can tell the more unreliable entries apart from the useful ones.
In this particular case the Norman conquest of Sicily would seem to be a matter of historical record (if not particularly well known) whereas the idea that sharia was an influence on common law to be more conjectural, but not impossible.
But I may well be threadrotting at this point given the original thread summary.

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:30 / 02.07.08

Yes, but the invasion of Sicily by the D'Hautevilles started in 1060. It was still going in 1066, and Palermo wasn't taken until after that - when are we saying that William, who around the time of the invasion of Sicily had been campaigning in Maine, studied the civil structures of the Saracens and put together English common law? I think that if I were an Islamophobe, I would probably start with that question, and then go on fairly quickly to the idea that our legal statutes have advanced from there, while sharia law remains, quite literally, medieval.

It's a nice idea, but I'm not sure how far one would be able to take it, is all I'm sayin'.

All Acting Regiment

10:37 / 03.07.08

I don't know where I got the idea of - specifically - William the Conqueror from. It seems to have slithered down my typing hand into my post. The Norman-Arab connection and Sharia as a model for Norman law was mentioned in a proper printed law book I skimmed, which reference I can probably dig up in aobut a day's time. There is also this wiki article.

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12:10 / 30.06.09

Well, at least one paper has used the right words in a case featuring a white person: Neo-Nazi 'planned terrorist attacks'.

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06:48 / 16.07.09

And, surprisingly, he's found guilty. Now, let's see if anyone gives it a front page.

Char Aina

07:10 / 06.08.09

This is still the only place I've heard about it.

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16:27 / 08.09.09

And guilty for a terrorist racist crime that was entirely possible. It is getting some coverage, yes, but contrast the response with the slightly more prominent story recently, in which men were found guilty of a plot many people reckon would have been completely impossible.

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08:39 / 16.01.10

Just for once, an accurate headline on one of these pieces.

haus of fraser

14:42 / 04.03.10

Head-butts wall.

Former, I meant former...

Haus Of Pain

14:55 / 04.03.10

Well, I would reach for a knife and fork, but I'm British and that's what I know. However, were I Vietnamese and presented with a bowl of sticky rice, I'd probably bring that bad boy up to my face and start shovelling it in with chopsticks.

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