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January 15, 2008 by countryparson

“The road to hell is paved with the skulls of erring priests, with bishops as their signposts.”

- St. John Chrysostom

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on February 8, 2008 at 1:09 pm | Reply John Marks

Your quotation could have been written just for Rowan Willams, the current Archbishop of Canterbury.

“More than 800 people were in the Great Hall of the Royal Courts of Justice in London for last night’s speech, while another 200 poured into the overspill marquee.

Williams said introducing sharia law would mean Muslims would no longer have to choose between two systems.

“If what we want socially is a pattern of relations in which a plurality of diverse and overlapping affiliations work for a common good, and in which groups of serious and profound conviction are not systematically faced with the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty, it seems unavoidable,” he said.

Earlier, in a BBC interview, the archbishop was more succinct. He said it was a “matter of fact” that sharia law was already practised in Britain. “We already have in this country a number of situations in which the internal law of religious communities is recognised by the law of the land … There is a place for finding what would be a constructive accommodation with some aspects of Muslim law, as we already do with some kinds of aspects of other religious law.”

He did not endorse, however, the “kind of inhumanity” that was associated with sharia law in some Islamic states.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,2254592,00.html

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