Archbishop of Canterbury: Society is coming round to my views on sharia

by Martin Beckford
Telegraph
February 15, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1335/archbishop-of-canterbury-society-is-coming

Excerpt:

The Archbishop of Canterbury has defended his controversial comments about the introduction of Islamic law to Britain and claimed that public opinion is now behind him.

On the anniversary of the interview in which Dr Rowan Williams said it "seems inevitable" that some parts of sharia would be enshrined in this country's legal code, he claimed "a number of fairly senior people" now take the same view.

He added that there is a "drift of understanding" towards what he was saying, and that the public sees the difference between letting Muslim courts decide divorces and wills, and allowing them to rule on criminal cases and impose harsh punishments.

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