Archbishop of Canterbury calls for Sharia law in the UK

here in ontario sharia law implementation was overturned last year. but apparently in UK it has the backing of the archbishop- t

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, in Canterbury Cathedral where he issued a green plea in his Christmas sermon today (Cathal McNaughton/PA)

Nico Hines

The Archbishop of Canterbury has called for the UK to adopt Sharia for Muslims.

Dr Rowan Williams suggested today that it “seems unavoidable” that elements of Islamic law be accepted into the British legal system.

The head of the Church of England believes that officially sanctioning Sharia will improve community relations and aid integration. He conceded that his view would be controversial but said that similar concessions to other religions were already allowed in Britain.

“Nobody in their right mind would want to see in this country the kind of inhumanity that has sometimes been associated with the practice of the law in some Islamic states: the extreme punishments, the attitudes to women,” he told the BBC World at One programme.

“But there are ways of looking at marital disputes, for example, which provide an alternative to the divorce courts as we understand them.”

Dr Williams pointed out that some Orthodox Jewish courts already operated in Britain, and that anti-abortion views of Catholics and other Christians were “accommodated within the law”.

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