Archbishop: Sharia law in UK 'seems unavoidable'

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Hmmm...dunno, dong.

Nor me, all I can do is interpret what I see, hear and read. Much like most of us really.

I was a kid at Catholic school during Vatican II, and much of the flip-flopping on doctrine was clearly an ecumenicism of convenience.

I played for the other team, although that of which you speak was before my time.

The Catholic church realised that they had to play nicely in the sandbox with other faiths, lest their own practices be scrutinised too closely, and peopel start to ask questions of why one faith was valid, and others not. No faith can stand that kind of scruitiny for too long.

Indeed, well as you know, in Britain the RC Church learned that lesson the hard way well before either our times. Joking aside, yes the Anglican Church has it's fair share of skeletons too. Personally I think religious difference is akin to bald men squabbling over a comb.

Of course, he could be that out of touch, you know.

Ivory towers and all that? It's certainly plausible.

He's no fool, one only need read his lecture (I posted some extracts earlier) and, based on what's been written I'd wager few here have, to conclude that. I don't question his intelligence, merely (on the assumption he had no such ulterior motive) his judgment. Alternatively if his motivation was along the lines you suggest - "Off with his head." :tongue:
 

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As a postscript to the Archbishop's comments, events today in the Appeal Court graphically illustrate how Britain is already rapidly descending that slippery slope:

The convictions of five Muslim men jailed over extremist activities have today been quashed by the Appeal Court in London.

In their appeal, the men argued they should not have been convicted solely on the basis that they had downloaded and shared literature from the internet.

The material included publications popular among extreme Islamist organisations, such as bomb-making manuals and anti-British and American propaganda encouraging Muslims to kill "infidels". One of the five had also used a computer to superimpose his own face on a montage of the 9/11 hijackers.

When they were originally jailed in 2007 they had all been found guilty of possessing material for terrorist purposes. Mohammed Irfan Raja, 19, received two years' youth detention while Aitzaz Zafar, 20, and Awaab Iqbal, 20, received three years' detention. Usman Ahmed Malik, 21, was sent to prison for three years and Akbar Butt, 20, was given 27 months' detention.

According to the prosecution, the group were all planning to go to Pakistan for training before returning to the UK to fight 'jihad'.

The defendants were all born in Britain and enjoyed freedom of speech and worship, and attended The University of Bradford, at the British taxpayers' expense.

They all walked free from Court today to continue their activities.
 

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I'd have to agree with that. I don't think anything they did was necessarily a crime, IF the Appeals Court agreed that they were convicted solely on what they downloaded and distributed. It appears the previous court (or jury) did not find credibility in the prosecution's argument that they were planning to engage in terrorist training in Pakistan and so they were exonerated on that charge; the one which, I would think, is a crime.