Abp of Canterbury: Sharia incompatible with UK law, but we must “allow ourselves to change with the newcomers”
If we welcome the strangers and allow ourselves to change with them, we will end up accepting Sharia, which Welby just yesterday said was incompatible with British law. The Archbishop of Canterbury is not, apparently, a consistent thinker.
“Brexit and a broken Britain: The ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY says the inequality and division in the UK is our ‘greatest challenge since WW2,'” by Justin Welby, Mail On Sunday, February 24, 2018 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):
…Welcoming strangers to our country and integrating them into our culture is important. We must be generous and allow ourselves to change with the newcomers and create a deeper, richer way of life. We also need to support strongly those poorer communities that have had high levels of immigration….
“Archbishop of Canterbury says Islamic rules are incompatible with Britain’s laws which have Christian values,” by Steve Doughty, Daily Mail, February 23, 2018 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):
Sharia law should never become part of the British legal system, the Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday.Justin Welby said the Islamic rules are incompatible with Britain’s laws, which have developed over 500 years on the principles of a different culture.He added that high levels of immigration from Muslim countries can ‘have an impact on the accepted pattern for choosing a partner, on assumed ages of maturity and sexual activity, and especially on issues of polygamy’….He said yesterday in advance of publication that British law has ‘underlying values and assumptions’ that come from a clearly Christian tradition. ‘Sharia law is not just about punishments,’ he added. ‘It is something of immense sophistication, but it comes from a very different background of jurisprudence to the one from which British law has developed over the past 500 years’.The Archbishop said in his book that the arrival of large numbers of Muslims in Britain – there are thought to be 3.3million here – has led many to challenge the values of the majority population. Among these are the right of people to choose their own husband or wife, and the need for monogamous relationships.He added: ‘There has been and remains a demand for the introduction of those aspects of sharia law that affect family and inheritance…‘The problem is reimagining Britain through values applied in action can only work where the narrative of the country is coherent and embracing.’ The Archbishop said: ‘Sharia, which has a powerful and ancient cultural narrative of its own, deeply embedded in a system of faith and understanding of God, and thus especially powerful in forming identity, cannot become part of another narrative.‘Accepting it in part implies accepting its values around the nature of the human person, attitudes to outsiders, the revelation of God, and a basis for life in law, rather than grace, the formative word of Christian culture.’…
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