Britain to me feels slightly schizophrenic on the subject of Muslims and accommodation to those systems of law that would replace English common law.

On the one hand, you’ve got the “we want to avoid giving offense” ethos that translates into idiotic concessions to a well orchestrated Islamist agenda and idiots like George Galloway and the (former) mayor of London, Ken Livingstone. And you’ve got pronouncements of the (probably completely insane by now) Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.

On the other hand, there is the British Secret Service/Scotland Yard getting on top of Islamist yahoos, interdicting plots (often involving airplanes), putting idiots like Abu Hamza on trial, tossing other extremists back to their native countries and, generally, keeping a reasonably good eye on the place.