Much has been said about the Archbishop of Canterbury comments that he believed “the adoption of some Sharia law in the UK seemed unavoidable”.
I had a look at some of the 1,000’s of comments posted on news sites such as the BBC, Sky, CNN and from the ones that I read, the majority (I would say over 95%) were completely against kind of dual law system for England , Wales and Northern Island citizen(Scotland of coarse has its own set of laws, but I would expect a similar reaction from them).
I am amazed that someone who is supposed to truly understand his flock should get such a fundamental ideal so wrong in such a big way. Rowan Williams perhaps may have wanted to have started a debate about the UK being even more inclusive than it already is, but I think that he has totally misunderstood what sort of reaction he would get.
It was interesting from the posts/comments that many were from multi-ethnic groups, some of which were also strongly against any change.
If Rowan Williams thinks that some citizens “did not relate” to the British legal system and those citizens wanted to relate to a better law, then I think they have a choice, stay and live under the law of the country that they chose, or move to another country.
I would say though currently, the UK has a quite number of citizens that don’t relate to British legal system that have nothing to do with a question of Sharia law, they would break any law in any country, perhaps it was these people that he was talking about, perhaps not!
I can’t think of something as big as this since perhaps the Iraq war decision and the Poll Tax that has raised so much comments. I wonder what other nations around the world must think of this mad idea?
I think the UK has done a good (but not perfect) job over recent years in being a more tolerant and welcoming nation to the various groups that come here. However, when opening our doors, everyone that enters has to understand that it’s one law for all, with no exceptions.
Beasley's Place 