{"id":361,"date":"2008-02-07T13:45:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T18:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=361"},"modified":"2008-02-07T13:45:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T18:45:43","slug":"great-britain-will-be-under-sharia-law-in-less-than-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Great Britain will be under Sharia Law in less than a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/7232661.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC news<\/a>, Rowan Williams (Archbishop of Canterbury) has concluded that Sharia law in UK is &#8216;unavoidable.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>This is not good news and it means that the positive results of the Crusades over 800 years ago are now being overturned without even a fight by the Europeans. Muslim rule is being handed over to Muslims without any questions asked or any struggle at all. THIS IS NOT GOOD NEWS!<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <font size=\"2\"><strong>&#8216;Sensational reporting&#8217;<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In an exclusive interview with BBC correspondent Christopher Landau, ahead of a lecture to lawyers in London on Monday, Dr Williams argues this relies on Sharia law being better understood. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">At the moment, he says &#8220;sensational reporting of opinion polls&#8221; clouds the issue. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">He stresses that &#8220;nobody in their right mind would want to see in this country the kind of inhumanity that&#8217;s sometimes been associated with the practice of the law in some Islamic states; the extreme punishments, the attitudes to women as well&#8221;. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">But Dr Williams said an approach to law which simply said &#8220;there&#8217;s one law for everybody and that&#8217;s all there is to be said, and anything else that commands your loyalty or allegiance is completely irrelevant in the processes of the courts &#8211; I think that&#8217;s a bit of a danger&#8221;. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&#8220;There&#8217;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.&#8221; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>&#8216;Other loyalties&#8217;<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Dr Williams added: &#8220;What we don&#8217;t want either, is I think, a stand-off, where the law squares up to people&#8217;s religious consciences.&#8221; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t either want a situation where, because there&#8217;s no way of legally monitoring what communities do&#8230; people do what they like in private in such a way that that becomes another way of intensifying oppression inside a community.&#8221; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The issue of whether Catholic adoption agencies would be forced to accept gay parents under equality laws showed the potential for legal confusion, he said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&#8220;That principle that there is only one law for everybody is an important pillar of our social identity as a western democracy,&#8221; he said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&#8220;But I think it is a misunderstanding to suppose that means people don&#8217;t have other affiliations, other loyalties which shape and dictate how they behave in society and that the law needs to take some account of that.&#8221; <\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/2008\/02\/he-said-what.html\" target=\"_blank\">George Grant<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to BBC news, Rowan Williams (Archbishop of Canterbury) has concluded that Sharia law in UK is &#8216;unavoidable.&#8217; This is not good news and it means that the positive results of the Crusades over 800 years ago are now being overturned without even a fight by the Europeans. Muslim rule is being handed over to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=361\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great Britain will be under Sharia Law in less than a year<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,63,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-interviews","category-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}