"It really annoys me that they should use a cross and try and turn this into a religious argument, " said Mr Alam.

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The result is that there is more space for hard religious argument.

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The religious argument is equally spurious.

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What starts as an argument over a field can turn into a religious crusade.

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This baby-and-the-bath-water argument points out that there are all sorts of private arbitrations, including religious courts like the Jewish Bais Din, which allow private parties who share a common belief system to use their own system to adjudicate their internal disputes.

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In this third critique where the argument is proffered that outlawing sharia arbitrations will lead to outlawing all private religious arbitrations, the question that must be asked is whether there are any principled and prudential distinctions between sharia as a "bad thing" and other religious codes as a "good thing" (or if not a "good thing" at least as an "acceptable thing")?

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