Posted on 02/07/2008 6:03:54 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Sharia law in UK is 'unavoidable' The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams says the adoption of Islamic Sharia law in the UK is "unavoidable".
Dr Williams told BBC Radio 4's World at One that the UK has to "face up to the fact" that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.
Dr Williams argues that adopting some aspects of Sharia law would help maintain social cohesion.
For example, Muslims could choose to have marital disputes or financial matters dealt with in a Sharia court.
He says Muslims should not have to choose between "the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty".
In an exclusive interview with BBC correspondent Christopher Landau, ahead of a lecture to lawyers in London later on Monday, Dr Williams argues this relies on Sharia law being better understood. At the moment, he says "sensational reporting of opinion polls" clouds the issue.
He stresses that "nobody in their right mind would want to see in this country the kind of inhumanity that's sometimes been associated with the practice of the law in some Islamic states; states; the extreme punishments, the attitudes to women as well".
But Dr Williams says the argument that "there's one law for everybody... I think that's a bit of a danger".
"There's a place for finding what would be a constructive accommodation with some aspects of Muslim law, as we already do with some other aspects of religious law."
Dr Williams adds: "What we don't want either, is I think, a stand-off, where the law squares up to people's religious consciences."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
The English Common Law and the rule of law were marvelous achievements that were core components in the creation of the modern world. Now, the nation that invented them and actually made them practical prepares to abandon them.
“But Dr Williams says the argument that “there’s one law for everybody... I think that’s a bit of a danger”. “
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Wow successful western societies are built on the premise that *all* men are subject to the same law..
iowa, check this out:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/
“IT’S MY ISLAND!” Ping
Very scary. Very.
What a cop-out! This is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!
My how things have changed:
Winston Churchill
Speech before Commons (June 4,1940)
http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111chur.html
HUH????
So a muslim can stone to death a women who is raped but it would be against the law for an atheist Jew, Hindu or Christian?
Sounds like the making of a society hell bent on destroying itself!!
I lived there for 4 years and I’ve been sounding the alarm since then. Oh well, looks like political correctness won out even though Arabs never played that game with Brits.
I hope the “homosexuals” at atheists are the first to go. And they’ll probably justify their executions (based on the “otherness” of their killers) and curse their native religions as “intolerant” with their last breath.
Is this idiot a clone of Neville Chamberlain or his great grandson or what?
Or did aliens lobotomize him and transplant a chip where his peabrain used to be?
Thankfully, our nation's demographics do not support this conclusion.
You don't beat them by becoming them.
Good read at the link. Thanks for posting.
Williams is an idiot and very few British people take him
seriously.
He is the epitome of the modern vicar who tries to bend his church to modern trends,not the reverse.
What in the name of all that is sacred is WRONG with these people? Why are they giving up and giving in? Why are they willing to let their noble history go down the drain with no fight? I can’t for the life of me understand it!
BTTT!!!!!!!!!!!
Bye UK. Idiots.
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