She started it.
Posted on 02/25/2018 5:49:37 PM PST by marshmallow
* Justin Welby said Sharia law should never become part of the UK legal system
* His predecessor Lord Williams had said Sharia law could be incorporated
* Welby said British law had 'values and assumptions' rooted in Christian traditions
Sharia law should never become part of the British legal system, the Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday.
Justin Welby said the Islamic rules are incompatible with Britain’s laws, which have developed over 500 years on the principles of a different culture.
He added that high levels of immigration from Muslim countries can ‘have an impact on the accepted pattern for choosing a partner, on assumed ages of maturity and sexual activity, and especially on issues of polygamy’.
Archbishop Welby’s comments follow the release earlier this month of a highly critical Home Office report that said all couples marrying in mosques should also have to go through a legally-binding civil marriage ceremony to shield wives from injustices under sharia.
They also reverse the position taken by his predecessor Lord Williams, who backed incorporating sharia into the British legal system. Archbishop Welby set out his reasons why sharia should not win official status in a book, Reimagining Britain.
He said yesterday in advance of publication that British law has ‘underlying values and assumptions’ that come from a clearly Christian tradition. ‘Sharia law is not just about punishments,’ he added. ‘It is something of immense sophistication, but it comes from a very different background of jurisprudence to the one from which British law has developed over the past 500 years’.
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Nick Cage says; “You don’t say?!”
Here is my shocked face.
You mean they can’t stone gays or bury adultresses alive? SAY IT AIN’T SO!!
Islamic Sharia and democracy cannot be reconciled. . -Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Duh! Little late, there!
Islam is also a political system. It’s not just a religion like most think.
Finally Father Obvious comes out of hiding in denial.
Duh...
Islamic rules are incompatible with America’s laws which have Christian values”
Duh, to us, but a significant first step back toward sanity from an important pulpit free of any Christian values for way too long.
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