Breaking the law on religious grounds
13-07-2006, 23:33
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Re: Breaking the law on religious grounds
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I watching an interview with the Hindu religious guy (forgive my ignorance but I have no idea of his title)
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It was a Sikh pyre, not Hindu.
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14-07-2006, 00:02
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Re: Breaking the law on religious grounds
Hindus appear to have the same issues though.
Perhaps that's what he was referring to?
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14-07-2006, 07:22
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Re: Breaking the law on religious grounds
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Originally Posted by dezzo
I watching an interview with the Hindu religious guy (forgive my ignorance but I have no idea of his title) who was basically saying that the UK's laws should change to allow all religious beliefs to overrule UK law.
So queue up here for honour killings, bigamy and female circumcision. 
Funnily enough there was something else on a few days ago about how Hindu's were feeling left out as Muslims had been more vocal and broken some laws that they didn't agree with and now were getting (in their view) preferential treatment so were thinking about just doing what they wanted for funerals etc. and if they were charged playing the religion card.
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I think that's the way it's heading, sadly. The authorities bend over backwards to avoid offending religious groups and minorities; if they deny them, there will always be the echo of "discrimination" ringing in their ears.
On the subject of the OP, surely it would have been cheaper (and legal) to fly the guy's body home to India? No laws would have been broken. Instead, now we have a precedent and I wouldn't be surprised to hear of more cases like this in the near future. 
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14-07-2006, 08:51
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Re: Breaking the law on religious grounds
I agree, if they want to do it their way then fly the body to somewhere where it's allowed or do as we do here. They got 'permission' so they didn't do anything wrong - if a copper says it's ok to do something then you are relying on your copper to be accurate in his information.
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14-07-2006, 09:38
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Re: Breaking the law on religious grounds
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Originally Posted by etccarmageddon
I agree, if they want to do it their way then fly the body to somewhere where it's allowed or do as we do here. They got 'permission' so they didn't do anything wrong - if a copper says it's ok to do something then you are relying on your copper to be accurate in his information.
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That's a good point. I wonder what would happen if I approached the Police and said "Would it be OK for me to break the law?"...
Anyway, part of me thinks that even if they hadn't been granted permission, they might have gone ahead and done it, then pleaded "cultural reasons" in mitigation. Of course that can't be proven, before anyone raises that point.
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14-07-2006, 09:48
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Re: Breaking the law on religious grounds
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I wonder what would happen if I approached the Police and said "Would it be OK for me to break the law?"....
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No problem if you're not white caucasian !!
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14-07-2006, 11:26
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Re: Breaking the law on religious grounds
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No problem if you're not white caucasian !!
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