It appears an avalanche is indeed coming down on Rowan Williams head:
The Archbishop of Canterbury continues to face calls for his resignation despite attempts to defuse the row over his Islamic Sharia law comments.
Dr Rowan Williams has been condemned from inside and outside his church for saying the adoption of parts of the law was "unavoidable" in Britain.
At least two General Synod members have called for him to quit and he has been heckled as he left a church service.
But supporters say his comments have been misinterpreted.
The Archbishop is said to be shocked and hurt by the hostility his comments have provoked, and on his website he said he "certainly did not call for its introduction as some kind of parallel jurisdiction to the civil law".
He's hurt? Well, fuck him. Imagine how all those who have been abused by Sharia law feel.
And, when he says that he did not call for Sharia to be introduced as a parellel system, it's bullshit. He did indeed call for a parallel system, the fucking asshole (I hate fucking liars, especially when they are trying to weasel out of bullshit, and especially bullshit of an epochal scale like this).
Here's what the Archbishop said:
Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4's World at One that the UK has to "face up to the fact" that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.
He says Muslims should not have to choose between "the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty".
"What we don't want either, is I think, a stand-off, where the law squares up to people's religious consciences."
Meanwhile, the Right Reverend George Cassidy sounds like he's almost as much of a traitor as Rowan Williams, in that he is a full-apologist for the Archbishop:
The Right Reverend George Cassidy, Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham, is the latest colleague to offer support.
He described the reaction as "hysterical" and said the Archbishop was simply trying to take forward a serious public debate.
"The Archbishop can count on the support of all serious minded people who are prepared to tackle the challenges of our complex society," he said.
In other words, all of us who think the Archbishop is completely out of line are instantly dismissed as not being "serious-minded." So, if Cassidy has his way, dissenters would not be invited to the debate, which I guess means there would be no debate.
Well, too bad, Cassidy. It looks like your friend the Rowan Williams is going down.
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From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/07/nwilliams307.xml
"Since being chosen as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002, Dr Rowan Williams has made something of a habit of riling politicians and traditionalists alike with what have been perceived as pro-Islamic comments.
Three months ago he gave an interview to a Muslim magazine called Emel in which he compared Muslims in Britain to the Good Samaritans, and praised the Muslim ritual of praying five times a day, but attacked “Christian Zionists” and claimed “the United States wields its power in a way that is worse than Britain during its imperial heyday”.
He also angered victims of 9/11 by saying that Al Qaeda terrorists “can have serious moral goals” and arguing that the 9/11 terrorists should not be called evil.
As one of his inner circle was recently quoted as saying, his biggest fault “is that too often he seems to bend over backwards to be kinder to his enemies than he is to us”.
At first, when I heard his ramblings, I thought it might be kindest to send him back to academia, as a Professor of Interfaith Kumbaya in the Department of Fluffy Studies at some lefty theological college.
But I have since discovered he has a track record of treason going back to his support for the USSR in the cold war, so perhaps he ought to be fired outright as a warning to other dhimmis, quislings and appeasers. See http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001670.php
Najistani, I'm not sure he can be "fired" in the usual meaning of the word.
The procedure for getting rid of him is apparently very complex, unfortunately.
And a thought just occurred (bit slow this morning, I am) to me....
Perhaps he's more useful left where he is, since this level of outrage at dhimmitude hasn't been seen in the U. K. before?
KG,
I think you are correct. The Archbishop is usefrl, isn't he? For once, a useful idiot is helpful to our side.
I suppose Williams may serve as the archetype of the self-loathing, sneering leftard academic: "Any enemy of my country is a friend of mine"
I think an awful lot of people are discussing the subject of Sharia and Islam because of Rowan's idiocy. That is, I believe, a good thing. Additionally, he is being made an example of.
Agree, Williams is such a pathetic dhimmi. his statment may:
A. get him fired
B. get the UK to finally oppose all aspects of sharia law.'
we can hope.
It wouldn't even work - muslims would still have to face the conflict between sharia and UK criminal law. Letting them pick Sharia for civil actions doesn't do anything to address the greater problem: That a significent number of muslims are willing to ignore the law of the country in which they live because their religion tells them to.
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