It’s hard to know where to begin in commenting on the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams’ remarks yesterday advocating the adoption of sharia law in Britain (full text here). They are so full of misconceptions, illogic, verbally elegant but deeply misguided pandering to moral relativism and multi-culturalism, moral sleights-of-hand, myopic foolishness and outright lies that a full ‘fisking’ would take hours if not days. It would also draw attention towards such capitulatory dreck rather than towards the very simple and eternal truth that the Church of England seems sadly unable to see anymore, and quite loathe to defend.
From a secular perspective, the comments of British Culture Secretary Andy Burnham are some of the clearest available:
“This isn’t a path down which we should go. The system, the British legal system, should apply to everybody equally. You cannot run two systems of law alongside each other. That in my view would be a recipe for chaos, social chaos. British law has to be based on British values. If people choose to live in this country, they choose to abide by that law and that law alone. It has got to be fundamental and a cornerstone of our country and our democracy that everybody is equal before that one system of British law.
The Archbishop may be right about one thing: sharia is probably inevitable, as this predictably supportive Guardian op-ed seems to argue. What the Archbishop fails to perceive is that this is so in part because he has decided that sharia is desirable. He is an actor in this drama, taking the side that will eventually eviscerate has already decimated his institution. Don’t miss this lovely coda from the Evening Standard piece from which I got Burnham’s comment:
This morning it also emerged that Sharia crime courts are already operating in parts of Britain.
In other words, the horse has already left the barn and the Archbishop is simply encouraging it to run faster. No wonder Tony Blair joined the Catholic church.
UPDATE: George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, speaking on the Dennis Prager show yesterday promoting his book, “Faith, Reason and the War Against Jihadism” says the following, sixteen minutes into the show:
“I am quite convinced, that by the middle of the twenty-first century, there are parts of Europe that will be extensions of the Arab-Islamic world. I think an Islamic Republic of the Netherlands, for example, is entirely within the realm of possibility. Ditto for Belgium. Perhaps the south of Spain…”
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