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Sharia in Europe: The Archbishop of Canterbury and other trailblazers

Posted February 12, 2008

"The archbishop of Canterbury has proposed a partial introduction of Islamic Shariah law in Great Britain. This is yet another step on the part of the Western world to subjugate itself to a Muslim immigrant minority unwilling to integrate." — Henryk Broder

Blogger's Note: In 1991, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, said about the role of the Anglican Church: "I see it as an elderly lady, who mutters away to herself in a corner, ignored most of the time." His latest successor at the helm of the Church of England takes the old lady part to the next logical level — bats in the belfy — by advocating the introduction of a two-tier legal system for the British: Common Law for some. Sharia for others. Pick yer poison. Divorce or stoning. Gay marriage or stoning. Free press or stoning. The German-Israeli journalist Henryk Broder is one of the last remaining voices of reason on a continent that seems to be collapsing under the dead weight of its own politically correct self-indulgence and cultural weakness. I thought this article was pure gold.

by Henryk M. Broder 

Baltimore — (TFN): In the autumn of 2006, the Dutch were dismayed over a book that had been published by the country's then justice minister, in which he speculated over the introduction of Shariah law in the Netherlands.

"How can this (the introduction of Shariah) be prevented legally?" the minister wrote. "Simply calling it 'impossible' would be scandalous. The majority counts. This happens to be the essence of democracy."

If two-thirds of the Dutch public favored Shariah, the minister argued, its introduction would be unavoidable. Forced onto the defensive, the minister explained that his comment had merely been a reference "to the democratic principle" that a two-thirds majority is all it takes to amend the country's constitution.At the same time, of course, he criticized the ongoing immigration and integration debate. "I don't like the tone of the political debate," he said. "To say: 'You must conform and accept our norms and values as your own; be reasonable, do as we do,' doesn't conform to the way I think things should be handled.'"

But the minister neglected to explain exactly how he thought things should be handled. His omission only reinforced the impression among many in the Netherlands that what he really meant was that it is not the immigrants who should "conform and accept our norms and values," but the Dutch who should conform to the norms and values of immigrants.

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