{"id":380,"date":"2008-02-21T14:10:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T19:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=380"},"modified":"2008-02-21T14:10:07","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T19:10:07","slug":"the-former-archbishop-speaks-about-the-current-archbishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"The Former Archbishop Speaks About the Current Archbishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In continuing coverage of the debate in Great Britain about Muslim Law&#8230; The predecessor of the current Archbishop spoke out on the topic in a recent edition of The Telegraph, a British newspaper. <a href=\"http:\/\/johnharmstrong.typepad.com\/john_h_armstrong_\/2008\/02\/the-former-arch.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the link<\/a> to what he said, along with an excerpt below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The storm of criticism that greeted the Archbishop of Canterbury&#8217;s lecture on  sharia law in Britain will no doubt have disappointed him but, in fact, he may  have done us a great favour by airing this whole area of controversy. He might  even be regarded as prescient for discussing sharia, even before demand builds  among Muslim communities for special provision in British law. Lord Carey, the  former Archbishop of Canterbury, says there is no Islamic consensus on the  application of sharia.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, some opinion polls have the number of  British Muslims wanting to live under sharia as high as 60 per cent.  Furthermore, sharia councils are based in almost every city and town with a  sizeable Muslim population. Famously, Canada&#8217;s politicians came perilously close  to introducing Islamic law for matrimonial cases, headed off eventually by an  alliance of women&#8217;s groups and the opposition of ordinary Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Williams&#8217;s chief concern is the protection of religious communities against  an increasingly aggressive secularism which last year, for instance, saw Roman  Catholic adoption agencies put out of business by an insistence that they act  against their conscience by placing children with gay couples.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/johnharmstrong.typepad.com\/john_h_armstrong_\/2008\/02\/the-former-arch.html\" target=\"_blank\">read more&#8230;<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In continuing coverage of the debate in Great Britain about Muslim Law&#8230; The predecessor of the current Archbishop spoke out on the topic in a recent edition of The Telegraph, a British newspaper. Here is the link to what he said, along with an excerpt below: The storm of criticism that greeted the Archbishop of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=380\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Former Archbishop Speaks About the Current Archbishop<\/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":[4,20,55,78,67,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-debate","category-islam","category-law-and-faith","category-politics","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","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=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}