ShariaI have only this to say to those who are criticising Dr. Rowan Williams for apparently advocating that Sharia Law be adopted in the UK; Read the lecture and the interview transcript. If you can’t be bothered to do either, and the former at least is not easy as it was intended for an audience of academic and legal minds, then for goodness sake, read a commentary written by someone who has.
Some extracts from the lecture…
…there are large questions in the background about what we understand by and expect from the law, questions that are more sharply focused than ever in a largely secular social environment. I shall therefore be concentrating on certain issues around Islamic law to begin with, in order to open up some of these wider matters.
This lecture will not attempt a detailed discussion of the nature of sharia, which would be far beyond my competence; my aim is only, as I have said, to tease out some of the broader issues around the rights of religious groups within a secular state, with a few thought[s] about what might be entailed in crafting a just and constructive relationship between Islamic law and the statutory law of the United Kingdom.
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Thank you a considered view at last.