“Archbishop” of Canturbury Calls for Sharia Law in Britain
Some people doubt those of us who say that Europe is dead - some people, also, are rather blind:
LONDON–The Archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the world’s Anglicans, said yesterday the introduction in Britain of some aspects of Islamic law, known as sharia, is unavoidable.
Archbishop Rowan Williams’s unexpected comments were welcomed by some Muslim groups, but the government distanced itself from them, saying it was out of the question that principles of sharia could be used in British civil courts.
Williams, speaking to the BBC, said other religions enjoyed tolerance of their laws in Britain and he called for a “constructive accommodation” with Muslim practice in areas such as marital disputes.
In response, Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s office said: “There are instances where the government has made changes in regulations, for example to include sharia-compliant mortgage products, but in general terms, sharia law cannot be used as a justification for committing breaches of English law, nor can the principle of sharia law be used in a civilian court.”
“The prime minister is clear that, in Britain, British laws based on British values will apply,” a spokesperson said.
A man of Christian faith simply would not be able to say such a thing - so, just what William’s belief system is, it can’t be Christian. Sharia law is a horrific perversion of all sense of justice and mercy and to say that we must respect such barbarities as punishing a rape victim more than her rapists (which has happened under Sharia law, and not just once) is the acme of cowardice, and a negation of the teachings of Jesus Christ.
But this is the future of Europe - a continuing “Munich” where concession after concession is to be granted to the enemies of European civilization in the stupid hope that there will come a point when the enemy is satisfied short of the complete destruction of Europe. And the fundamental weakness of Europe - the reason they grovel before Islamo-fascists and won’t even have enough children to replace themselves - is because they have cut themselves off from the wellspring of European civilization, Christianity. Europe is Christian, or it is nothing - and by forcing Christianity out of the public square, Europe is rapidly becoming nothing…nothing but a collection of yellow-bellied welfare addicts, doomed to destruction.
The only saving grace here is that there is a remnant of Christianity in Europe - a remnant, that is, of European civilizaiton buried beneath the slag of post-Christian civilization. These people - whom I approximate at about 50 million of Europe’s population - are the seed, perhaps, of an eventual European revival. These people, who still believe and thus still build for the future, can inherit the ruins and revitalise a dead civilization, much as when Christianity originally inherited a dead Greco-Roman civilization and by Christianising it, turned it into a new and vibrant civilization. There is a problem with this scenario - the Moslem population in Europe is nearly as large as the Christian population, and we’ll have to see which group will prove capable of taking power from a dying secular ruling class.
23 comments February 9th, 2008
