{"id":299,"date":"2008-02-08T10:03:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T10:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/299"},"modified":"2014-04-17T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T09:56:54","slug":"sharia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/299","title":{"rendered":"Sharia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/1575\">the lecture<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/1573\">interview transcript<\/a>. If you can&#8217;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 href=\"http:\/\/www.j-tron.org\/propaganda\/?p=316\">a commentary<\/a> written by someone who has.<\/p>\n<p>Some extracts from the lecture&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;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.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I 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&#8217;t be bothered to do either, and the former at least is not easy as it was intended for an audience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}