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( Archbishop of Canterbury ) Williams hits back in sharia row
Press Association ^ | Feb 8, 2008

Posted on 02/08/2008 10:57:19 PM PST by george76

The Archbishop of Canterbury will try to put aside the row over sharia law as he makes his first public appearance since the controversy erupted.

Dr Rowan Williams hit back on Friday night over criticism of his comments amid growing calls for his resignation.

He made no proposals for sharia, and "certainly did not call for its introduction as some kind of parallel jurisdiction to the civil law...

his core aim was "to tease out some of the broader issues around the rights of religious groups within a secular state".

At least two Synod members have already called for Dr Williams to go ...

Colonel Edward Armitstead, a Synod member ..."One wants to be charitable, but I sense that he would be far happier in a university where he can kick around these sorts of ideas."

And Alison Ruoff, a Synod member ...: "He is a disaster for the Church of England. He vacillates, he is a weak leader and he does not stand up for the Church. I would like to see him resign and go back to academia."

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: anglican; anglicans; archbishop; canterbury; dhimmitude; rowanwilliams; sharia; sharialaw; williams
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Now he can prove how stupid he really is ?

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1 posted on 02/08/2008 10:57:21 PM PST by george76
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To: george76

he was just teasing, don’t cha know.. lol


2 posted on 02/08/2008 11:03:00 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: Fred Nerks; Candor7; forkinsocket; Beckwith; G8 Diplomat; SunkenCiv; Clive; blam; Marine_Uncle; ...

Sharia law was originally more enlightened in its attitude to women than other legal systems, Dr Williams pointed out...

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3 posted on 02/08/2008 11:03:16 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
the broader issues around the rights of religious groups

That, FRiend, is the core of the logical fallacy of his position. People have rights, but the concept of "group rights" (what the French revolutionaries referred to as " collective liberty") is the source of tyranny.

4 posted on 02/08/2008 11:03:23 PM PST by Squawk 8888 (Is human activity causing the warming trend on Mars?)
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To: sionnsar

Ping.


5 posted on 02/08/2008 11:05:21 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Checkmate Cruiser")
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To: NormsRevenge; Cicero; jan in Colorado

just teasing

8-)


6 posted on 02/08/2008 11:06:33 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

I’ve been wanting this panty-waste to go for years!! I loathe that spineless worm...can’t stand to look at him. He’s a weak-kneed, leftist dhimmi who shames the very ground he walks on. He is unworthy of his position, and unworthy to lead a single English soul.


7 posted on 02/08/2008 11:08:36 PM PST by americanophile
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I've heard that this man is brilliant. I await the vetting of this subject expecting to find he was taken ridiculously out of context.

It might just be an object lesson in just how volatile public perceptions are.

8 posted on 02/08/2008 11:08:47 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (anyone can be a soldier in peacetime.)
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To: george76; sionnsar
"He is a disaster for the Church of England. He vacillates, he is a weak leader and he does not stand up for the Church. I would like to see him resign and go back to academia."

Well, Anglicans here in the New World already figured that part out...when he did nothing as the liberals put in place the flagrantly homosexual bishop, held a Clown Eucharist, and proceeded to persecute (including through litigation in secular courts) anyone who stood up to defend the Bible.

9 posted on 02/08/2008 11:10:11 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Admin Moderator for President. No amnesty for the establishment—Republican and Democrat!)
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To: george76

[”One wants to be charitable, but I sense that he (Dr. Williams) would be far happier in a university where he can kick around these sorts of ideas.”

Better yet, in a mosque.


10 posted on 02/08/2008 11:10:41 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
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To: george76

Thanks for clarifying that, george! ;o)


11 posted on 02/08/2008 11:11:05 PM PST by jan in Colorado ("It's easier to believe a lie one hears 1,000 times than to believe a fact that one has never heard)
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To: the invisib1e hand

looks like you drew short straw and had to take the devil’s advocate stance, right? ;-0


12 posted on 02/08/2008 11:12:36 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: george76

This guy is a traitor to his country and the free world.

Anglicans everywhere need to throw this bum out.


13 posted on 02/08/2008 11:13:57 PM PST by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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To: NormsRevenge
looks like you drew short straw and had to take the devil’s advocate stance, right? ;-0

not the first time...though I'm not too fond of that particular figure of speech....

14 posted on 02/08/2008 11:14:18 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (anyone can be a soldier in peacetime.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
not the first time...though I'm not too fond of that particular figure of speech....

Gad. Perhaps I misunderstood what I'd heard...will wait to see. With asbestos.

15 posted on 02/08/2008 11:15:30 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (anyone can be a soldier in peacetime.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

oh, I’ve been there more than once myself, sometimes unintentionally, others, welllll


16 posted on 02/08/2008 11:15:55 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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Thank goodness sane folk believe in a forgiving God .. urrrrr

(slams the bunker door , tightens it down good)


17 posted on 02/08/2008 11:18:08 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: jan in Colorado; narses; NYer; jazusamo

Husbands with multiple wives have been given the go-ahead to claim extra welfare benefits ...

Even though bigamy is a crime in Britain, the decision by ministers means that polygamous marriages can now be recognised formally by the state...

The outcome will chiefly benefit Muslim men with more than one wife, as is permitted under Islamic law. Ministers estimate that up to a thousand polygamous partnerships exist in Britain, although they admit there is no exact record.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=16&entry_id=24137


18 posted on 02/08/2008 11:18:53 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Just another secular appeasement wimp.
Typical leftist liberal in love with authoritarian
tyranny.

The Jimmah Cartah of England.


19 posted on 02/08/2008 11:30:17 PM PST by ChiMark
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To: americanophile

“I’ve been wanting this panty-waste to go for years!! I loathe that spineless worm...can’t stand to look at him. He’s a weak-kneed, leftist dhimmi who shames the very ground he walks on. He is unworthy of his position, and unworthy to lead a single English soul.”

I feel you’re holding back...


20 posted on 02/08/2008 11:34:17 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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