Archbishop says sharia law should be adopted by UK parliament

The daily points out that Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury "did something yesterday [February 7th] that was far from sensible. He said that the adoption of parts of Sharia in Britain looked 'unavoidable', and called for 'constructive accommodation with some aspects of Muslim law', over issues such as resolving marriage disputes. Muslims should not have to choose, he said, between 'the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty'. These remarks are astonishing. ... It is fundamental to this democracy that there should be one law for everyone. People of many faiths - Jews, Hindus, Sikhs - have settled happily in Britain without demanding a new set of laws for themselves. ... In Britain, all citizens are equal before the law. Anything that might skew that balance ought to be wholly unacceptable. ... In 2001 the European Court of Human Rights stated that Sharia clearly diverged from the human rights values enshrined in the European Convention."

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