Clash of legal jurisdictions as muslim activist is released from prison
13 February 2012
One of the UK’s most extreme muslim activists is to be released from Long Lartin top-security jail today.
The UK government says Abu Qatada is a threat to national security, but it cannot deport him to Jordan because of a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that he would face an unfair trial if he were sent back to Jordan. It is claimed that Jordan uses evidence obtained by torture and the European judges said this would amount to a “flagrant denial of justice”.
Abu Qatada has never been charged with a criminal offence in the UK but ministers have said he is “extremely dangerous”. Joel Bennathan QC, a leading defence barrister in counter-terrorism cases, said that Qatada’s case is similar to others where there had been allegations but no prosecution or conviction.
Miscarriage of justice is very common in human experience, and it is central to the mis-trial of the Lord Jesus Christ, and of Christians ever since then.
Christians should be concerned that justice is done and seen to be done.
The problem in the UK is the replacement of the law of God with piecemeal man-made laws made and interpreted in competing legal jurisdictions - Holyrood, Westminster, Brussels and the European Court of Human Rights. People are thoroughly confused about the law in the UK, where free speech is under serious threat from aggressive humanists. The Lord Jesus Christ says that “every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment” Mat 12:36.
