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Yeah, what she said (plus a little of what I have to say)

Bookworm on Feb 10 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam, Law

I was trying to set up a post that selectively quotes from Melanie Phillips’ articles explaining the utter insanity behind the Archbishop of Canterbury’s muddled remarks about bringing sharia law into the British legal system — but I couldn’t. Each paragraph is so information-packed and important that (a) I couldn’t pick what to quote [...]

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The Imam of Canterbury *UPDATED*

Bookworm on Feb 07 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam, Religion

The most famous Archbishop of Canterbury was the martyred Thomas a Becket, a man who was ostensibly the victim of a political assassination, yet who essentially died for his faith. He’d been a hard living young man but, when his best friend Henry II invested him as Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important seat [...]

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