Archbishop of Canterbury want to discuss the Role of Shariah Law in Britain
Oh dear the poor chap doesn't get it does he. We have something called the law, its not perfect and can be improved in many areas but it is the best system that we have. The idea that somehow religious groups should have their own laws, separate from the rest of us will just divide society even further.
Where do we draw the line? Honor killings, members of the religion of peace blowing themselves up? And what happens if one party refuses to abide by religious law or our common law, who decides which one wins out? Religion no matter which one that is has to be secondary to the common law that we all have to follow.
Archbishop of Canterbury, Church of England Newspaper, Islam. trackback The Archbishop of Canterbury is to deliver the keynote address of a lecture series on the role Islamic law might play in Britain, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London announced last week.
Dr. Williams will give a lecture entitled “Civil and Religious Law in England: A Religious Perspective” at the Temple Church on Feb 7 in a meeting chaired by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.
Following Dr. Williams speech, SOAS’s Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law will facilitate five lectures on the compatibility of Sharia law with the European Convention on Human Rights; Legal Pluralism in Britain-”Should English Law give more Recognition to Islamic Law?”; Human Rights; Free Speech/Incitement to Religious Hatred Laws; and whether religious law allowing the use of force should trump civil law barring its use.
In a statement released by SOAS, it noted that while English law had been shaped “in part by the principles and history of Christian culture” it owed “no obedience to any revelation, scripture or doctrine ascribed to God.”
English law looked to the “rights and freedoms” of the individual, while Sharia law “has tended to protect and strengthen the community in which it is intended that the individual can then live a devout, good and ordered life.” In 2001 the European Court of Human Rights stated Sharia law “clearly diverges from Convention values, particularly with regard to its criminal law and criminal procedure, its rules on the legal status of women and the way it intervenes in all spheres of private and public life in accordance with religious precepts.”
Islamist groups in Britain have pressed the government for a plurality of laws, permitting Islamic jurisprudence to trump the common law when Muslims are before the bar—a point so far rejected by the government. Jewish activists have queried Lambeth Palace about the absence of Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and legal traditions of other minority religions in the lecture series, and have told The Church of England Newspaper that they are perturbed by the apparent privileging of Islam in Britain in the ongoing debate over religion and the law.
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Hi Fido,
what a mess now that the arch bishop wants to speak about it! all I know is I won't go easily!
Take care x
The man is a lunatic, a tree hugger and groveling dhimmi of the first order.
Take care
The institutionalized Churches of the west are just as corrupt as the government is.
Where is someone like Father Charles Coughlin when you need him?
The fact that he's willing to discuss/entertain such notions is proof that the west is in dire straits. I'm surprised the church hasn't booted him out.
And all those other groups, like Jews and Hindus have a point, i guess the reality is that violence and intolerance work against the west. They'll need to start blowing up churches and beating christians up if they want special rights.
I really can not figure the church out, the moslems slaughter christians yet assholes like him fawn all over these barbarians.
This Archbishop has shown today a massive lack of judgement and a leaning to the Muslim religion.
He should step down now before he does more damage to our Christian church. He consistently ducks biblical guidance on contentious christian issues instead offering half baked liberal opinions. Is this leadership, is this man fit to lead the Anglican Church?
Fairweather4u.
gvest said
When you recognize the fact that in shari'ah law and any radical Islamic group, the Qua ran trumps everything. Nobody and nothing political or otherwise overrules. Read "Milestones" by Sayyid Qutb and you'll understand where these guys are coming from. There is no room for compromise or discussion, just blind obedience.
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