tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post7610793609763922357..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Rowan and ShariaBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-48394998321044063822009-05-01T14:55:00.000+00:002009-05-01T14:55:00.000+00:00His comments have been completely blown out of pro...His comments have been completely blown out of proportion. All he suggested was that parts of Sharia Law COULD be used.Family Law Londonhttp://www.flip.co.uk/divorce/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-64198005225910870582008-02-12T08:10:00.000+00:002008-02-12T08:10:00.000+00:00When a true genius appears in the world, you may k...When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him – Jonathan SwiftAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-60976233166837752852008-02-09T10:19:00.000+00:002008-02-09T10:19:00.000+00:00I blame you, Bryan, for encouraging him. Look at w...I blame you, Bryan, for encouraging him. Look at what you said <A HREF="http://www.bryanappleyard.com/blog/2007/09/rowan-resonant.php" REL="nofollow">last September</A>: "Williams, after four rather hesitant years in the job, has plainly decided to harden his public posture...his new, tougher position is better...He has seen, I suspect, that there is more, not less, for the Church to say in a Gordon McCabehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09151162643523937086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-6947024516136085962008-02-09T10:03:00.000+00:002008-02-09T10:03:00.000+00:00There is at the moment a climate where anything a ...There is at the moment a climate where anything a churchman says which could be taken out of context, will. <BR/>The Pope, in Munich & in Rome just a few days ago, now Canterbury are on the receiving end of an agenda which seems to be designed to shut them up completely. Nothing in the texts, when read, could be described as problematic. The problem, if such, is in where and for whom these Vincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09442327549417743472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-25114583610331205702008-02-09T00:12:00.000+00:002008-02-09T00:12:00.000+00:00After reading more details, I agree that what he m...After reading more details, I agree that what he meant was more harmless than it is being protrayed. I'm not so sure about hysteria being the "defining characteristic of our public realm," though.Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03071928294799081845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-68519557918361676422008-02-08T18:34:00.000+00:002008-02-08T18:34:00.000+00:00Is it possible that the schism that destroys Angli...Is it possible that the schism that destroys Anglicanism will be between the faction that wants to institute sharia law and the one that backs the Talmud?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-5974701082366293532008-02-08T16:37:00.000+00:002008-02-08T16:37:00.000+00:00''But what is the CofE for?''I believe it was a wa...''But what is the CofE for?''<BR/><BR/>I believe it was a way to fill out forms in the 1950s if you didn't actually go to church.Ian russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11106519805045337505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-87747916434161615722008-02-08T11:46:00.000+00:002008-02-08T11:46:00.000+00:00What a piece of naivete in a public figure. As if ...What a piece of naivete in a public figure. As if he need pay no account to what's out there in the political domain: symbols and meanings, his own actions, the reaction to them by others; you know... <BR/><BR/>But what is the CofE for? Is it a post-modern sect? I am reminded of the Smith and Jones sketch where they say Anglicanism is a broad church and that satanism can be tolerated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-30360904188822725932008-02-08T11:31:00.000+00:002008-02-08T11:31:00.000+00:00Pure intelligence, which I'm sure the ABoC has in ...Pure intelligence, which I'm sure the ABoC has in abundance, is a pretty useless commodity unless it can be harnessed to awareness and character. We all know people who are so intelligent they can't tie their own shoelaces.<BR/><BR/>Now if he had any practical intelligence it might have given him the foresight to realise, no matter how well meaning, how this sounds. Instead he somehow though Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-89821280664915870062008-02-08T10:55:00.000+00:002008-02-08T10:55:00.000+00:00Entirely agree, Cap'n. Williams classically 'cleve...Entirely agree, Cap'n. Williams classically 'clever stupid' (and, I think, a good man - which makes matters worse). Anyone who saw the Ch4 documentary Divorce Sharia Style will have seen for themselves a legal system run entirely by (mostly elderly) men entirely for men, and been appalled - and this film was intended to show the positive side of Sharia pratice at its most benign.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-87481792424941132602008-02-08T10:52:00.000+00:002008-02-08T10:52:00.000+00:00We went through all this over here. A few years ag...We went through all this over here. A few years ago, in a fit of multicultural tolerance, a provincial government was all set to authorize family law arbitrations under sharia law. It was stopped at the last minute by frantic Muslim women demanding to know whether they were out of their minds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-22499233693190407472008-02-08T10:39:00.000+00:002008-02-08T10:39:00.000+00:00Northern Ireland already has something called Comm...Northern Ireland already has something called Community Restorative Justice for 'communities' that don't trust the courts or police. The criminal depredations of the former Provos don't come within its remit. Do we really want to go down that route here? Williams is 'clever stupid' and over-impressed by a book on the 'market state' by Philip Bobbitt which he keeps citing. Having presided over theAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-72111648050143890132008-02-08T09:26:00.000+00:002008-02-08T09:26:00.000+00:00Is it cos I has a beard?well, I've never trusted h...Is it cos I has a beard?<BR/><BR/>well, I've never trusted him anyway. what's the word? sinister.Ian russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11106519805045337505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-77293299868625145632008-02-08T09:09:00.000+00:002008-02-08T09:09:00.000+00:00The lecture in which the Archbishop's suggestions ...The lecture in which the Archbishop's suggestions was first made is indeed rather more complex than the silly headlines produced from it. It is available here: http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/1575Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com