I must have missed that bit
"All in all, Rowan Williams seems a more deserving target for mass protests this weekend. Say what you will about Scientologists, but at least they haven't come out against the emancipation of women and equality before the law
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so an approach to law which simply said, 'There is one law for everybody and that is all there is to be said, and anything else that commands your loyalty or your allegiance is completely irrelevant in the processes of the courts'. I think that's a bit of a danger.
Obviously as someone from a country with a church that's a billion times worse than the CoE, which has frequently argued for special consideration for their priests before the law, I have Strong Views on this, but I think the bish saying things like the above is out of order anyway.
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ABC followed that statement you pull out there with
"That is why 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"
which seems reasonable even though i, as an atheist with NO interest in religious law, actually disagree with it. I certainly don't find it out of order to be raising these things - to a specialist crowd (as he was) or even in a public debate.
what i do find out of order is the magnitude of nonsense that ABC even tragically predicted in his quote from another scholar
"In the West, the idea of Sharia calls up all the darkest images of Islam...It has reached the extent that many Muslim intellectuals do not dare even to refer to the concept for fear of frightening people or arousing suspicion of all their work by the mere mention of the word"
spot on. we seem to have decided that discussion of this is impossible.
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