Sharia Law

Various people in my comments have asked if there is any polling about attitudes toward Sharia law. Well, I don't know of any polls of the general population - I suspect that it would be overwhelmingly, uniformly hostile. ICM did, howeer, ask the opinion of British Muslims back in February 2006.

Asked "Would you support or oppose there being areas of Britain which are pre-dominantly Muslim and in which Sharia law is introduced?" 40% of British Muslims said yes and 41% said no. This was not, of course, actually what the Archbishop of Canterbury suggested - he was talking about a parallel system where Muslims could opt to use Sharia courts for things like family and inheritance law rather than geographical areas where Sharia law was used.