The Archbishop of Allah

When prodded on the question of sharia, Dr Williams back peddled, hinting that he is merely in favour of certain aspects of sharia family law to be embraced by the English legal system. He opined that these would not contradict the laws and mores of Great Britain.

Not only is Dr Williams quite wrong on that score, but it’s worth noting that he never offered to discuss the introduction of sharia law into Britain. He endorsed the idea.

Sycophants have tried to compare the introduction of say, the family law aspects of sharia law with those of (Jewish) Beth Din courts - used by  very few Jews in a very few matters - or with Hindu courts. Such a comparison is misleading to say the least.

The differences between the faiths are great.

Dr Williams and fellow appeasers ignore the fundamental difference between the imposition of any part of sharia and whatever a very limited role is allotted to Jewish (or possibly Hindu) family law, in that there is no challenge, by the latter, to the supremacy of English law.

The application of Jewish (or Hindu) family law has been used in a very limited manner and only when it does not contradict English law. Neither the Jewish nor the Hindu communities in the United Kingdom have agitated to undercut the supremacy of the law of the English state.

The challenge from Islam is very, very different. The Archbishop of Canterbury holds that Muslims "only" want this little concession, and no more. He is deaf to the reality that sharia imposed on Muslims in the West, is often rejected even by them. Witness the example of Canada, where female Muslims led the fight against it, because their legal standing under the sharia-family law is far inferior to what it would be under the laws of Canada. And for that matter, the laws of any Infidel land.

The Archbishop refuses to acknowledge that this is not a final demand, but merely an opening one, which if granted, will lead to more such demands.

The Archbishop would do well to stop listening to his bleeding heart and to start listening to the likes of Mr Anjem Choudary, a former senior figure in the radical group al-Muhajiroun, who commented last week: "Some element of family law or social and economic law will not work, it has to be adopted wholesale. Sharia has been promised by the Prophet Mohammed and it will come either by embracing Islam, because it is the fastest growing religion in the country, or by an Islamic country conquering Britain or by elements embracing Islam and imposing it."

While we infidels may fundamentally disagree with Mr Choudary, it’s time we took him and his ilk seriously. And it’s high time the Anglican Church replaced an appeaser of Mohammed with a promoter of Christ in Lambeth Palace.

His Grace is a disgrace.