THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury has recommended the European secular state as a model for Islamic countries. Despite Muslim antagonism to secularism, Dr Williams maintained that this was the best hope for avoiding extremism. Dr Williams was speaking in Lyons at an international meeting of prayer for peace on Monday (picture, above). A European secular state with the community of faith as its critical partner was, he said, "truest to its Christian roots". Europe taught that it was possible - and in Dr Williams's view, desirable - to separate Church and state. "Once you have recognised the distinction between the Church...