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[Daily Mail] 13 Feb 2008--So that's all right then.
The Archbishop of Canterbury's remarks about sharia law were completely and totally misunderstood.
He has apologised for his "unclarity" and expressing himself clumsily, but definitely not for what he said.
End of story.
This, four days after Dr Williams' comments on the need to accommodate sharia law in Britain ignited public outrage.
His remarks united in condemnation politicians from all parties along with people of all religions and none.
Phone lines to radio and TV programmes were jammed with furious calls, website were deluged and inside the church there were calls for him to resign.
Yet the day after Dr Williams faced the Synod to fight for his professional life, liberal voices were loud in support of the "misunderstood" prelate.
He was apparently the victim of both "the tabloids" and "traditionalists" in his own church who had been gunning for him since he took office.
To the BBC he was merely "guilty of innocence"; his problem was that his enormous brain was simply incapable of "neatly packaged soundbites"; and it gushed that he was "a great" Archbishop of Canterbury.
For its part, the Synod had given him a standing ovation.
The arch-muddler had turned into a martyr.
So how had Dr Williams pulled off this miracle?
I'm sorry but this really looks like smoke and mirrors.
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