Islamic party forms in Finland

Well creeping Sharia has just upped the pace. Now it's walking Sharia, and if they stopped it will be galloping Sharia. This is an interesting development inasmuch as a "religion" wants to enter the political realm. I would hope that the separation of church and state in the US would prevent the Muslims from trying to establish a religious political party.
FROM CWNEWS.COM:
Islamic party forms in Finland
Helsinki, Sep. 12, 2007 (CWNews.com) - 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 a ban on alcohol sales, the option for Muslim children to be excused from school music classes and outings to swimming pools, legal status for ritual animal killing and male circumcision, and the eventual introduction of shari'a law in Finland. Tammi added that the purpose of Sharia law was to prevent crime.