CHRISTIANS are being targeted by "anxious" athiests because the rise of radical Islam and terrorist attacks have created a deep-seated suspicion of religion, the Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday.
Dr Rowan Williams said Christians are being viewed with growing suspicion and treated as “surrogates” for some extremist branches of Islam in the minds of “anxious secularists”.
He also accused the Government of assuming all vicars were “imams in dog collars” while imams were “vicars in turbans”.
His outspoken comments came during his first public service since the announcement of his decision to stand down as Archbishop at the end of this year.
They come amid signals that intends to use his final months in office to speak out forcefully on issues which on which he feels passionate.
One Lambeth Palace source was quoted at the weekend as saying that he was preparing to “wage war” on the Government over what he sees as social injustice and a failure to rein in the excesses of the financial world. Keep reading
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