Friday, February 08, 2008

Anglican leader triggers row over Sharia law

http://www.euronews.net/index.php?page=info&article=468968&lng=1

[EuroNews] 8 Feb 2008--The Archbishop of Canterbury is at the centre of a row after suggesting that some aspects of Islamic Sharia law will unavoidably be introduced into the UK.

Dr Rowan Williams, the spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans, said that this could be a way to improve community cohesion."We do not simply have a stand-off between two rival legal systems when we discuss Islamic and British law," he said.

"To recognize Sharia is to recognize a method of jurisprudence governed by revealed texts rather than a single system

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