WHILE replying to a letter from Philip Hayworth regarding Sharia Law in the UK, M Siddique mentions me by name.

Considering this, I would like to reply.

M Siddique tries to assure us by saying that a few people sticking up posters is not a “takeover bid”. It’s downright laughable. I hope he is right but I, in the meantime, and others are not laughing. It’s not the posters, it’s what is written on them that causes concern. They could be construed as incitement, “the thin edge of the wedge”.

If those sticking up the posters and their sympathisers want Sharia Law, there are some countries that can accommodate them and they know where the door is. This is still a democratic country; no one is stopping them.

This has nothing to do with leaning to the far right, little knowledge or ignorance breeding fear. It’s neither lack of knowledge or ignorance.

As a Christian, I don’t lean to the right or left; it’s that democracy and the Christian faith would be under threat. We in this country try to keep politics and religion separate.

Quote: “Give unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto God that which is God’s”. Sharia Law does not distinguish between the two. There are some people who want democracy and Christianity left alone, keeping the status quo. Don’t mend what isn’t broken.

Some of us consider this country our ancestral home, built by our forefathers over centuries, working hard towards that end, handing it down to us.

But there is an element in society who have “no loyalty” to this country and would undermine it — the country that gives them protection, a roof over their heads. Such people should not confuse caution for fear; they would be wrong.

Grenville Moore Melbourne Road Bolton