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Increasing Similarity of Billboard Songs
It's not just you, others have also noticed that popular songs on the Billboard charts sound similar. But what you may not realize is that in the recent days, they're sounding even more similar. Andrew Thompson and Matt Daniels for The Pudding make the case: From 2010-2014, the top ten producers (by number of hits) wrote about 40% of songs that achieved #1 - #5 ranking on the Billboard Hot 100. In the late-80s, the top ten producers were credited with half as many hits, about 19%. In other words, more songs have been produced by fewer and fewer topline songwriters, who oversee the combinations of all the separately created sounds. Take a less personal production process and execute that process by a shrinking number of people and everything starts to sound more or less the same.
When your ideology calls for the oppression of women, murder of Christians and Jews, violence against your own kind, and marriage of children, you have to be removed from society.
So you want your country invaded by and ruled by bronze age primitives with the help of your own government? Because that's what people like you who blindly toss the word "bigot" around are producing.
Sharia law is completely incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, enshrined in law in the Human Rights Act 1998. As the UK is a member of the EU we have nothing to worry about. Oh hang on.....
No it isn't. Sharia does not have particular prescriptions and proscriptions. It is malleable. It takes on the character of the society implementing it. If the society is a regressive, misogynist, anti-semitic one, then its Sharia implementation will reflect that. If the society is a progressive, feminist, ecumenical one, then its Sharia implementation will reflect that instead.
Religion can be used to justify absolutely anything. Including human rights.