Spanish Pundit

Europe's first Islamic political party has formed in Finland. The Finnish Islamic Party plans to collect 5,000 signatures in order to qualify for official registration by the end of the year.

Counting on support from the 55,000 Muslims living in Finland, the party anticipates some success in next year's municipal elections as well as in the 2011 parliamentary elections. Party spokesman Abdullah Tammi acknowledged to reporters that to date the party has enrolled only a few dozen members.

The Finnish Islamic Party platform supports:

1.  a ban on alcohol sales,
2. the option for Muslim children to be excused from school music classes and outings to swimming pools,
3. legal status for ritual animal killing and male circumcision,
4. and the eventual introduction of shari'a law in Finland. Tammi added that the purpose of Sharia law was to prevent crime.

Catholic World News : Islamic party forms in Finland

Oh, yeah, a real interesting electoral program. You know, what I am anxious to know is what percentage of Finnish population is going to vote for this party. Without considering even that Finland has never been under Islamic rule before.

So is this our real future? h/t 2008 voter. (Go check VH's post about Chechenyan leader enforcing Islamic Dress Code , something I wrote several months ago).

Wow, magnificent perspective, eh??

But don't worry: according to Canadians, these veiled women can vote, even if they can't be identified . Hmm, anyone considering that inside those vests can be anyone? (a woman who has voted already, a man…)

UK: Islamism: The Talibanization of Britain . I wrote about Deobandi sect some days ago but this article has more information -remember Deobandi sect runs more than 600 of Britain's 1350 mosques-:

Though a popular inspiration for Pakistani extremists, the Deobandi ideology gains its name from a town in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. It is here at Deoband that the second largest Sunni seminary in the world exists, called the Darul Uloom (House of Knowledge). It was officially founded on May 30, 1866, by two clerics, shortly after the British had destroyed the last vestiges of the Moghul empire in 1857. Mohammad Qasim Nanautavi was the original leader of the seminary, assisted by Rasheed Ahmed Gangohi. Children as young as five enter the Darul Uloom and other Deobandi madrassas, and usually graduate when they are 25. 65,000 students had graduated from the Deo