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We're Going To Miss Westminster Abbey - Archbishop of Canterbury Says British Sharia Is "Unavoidable"

Law and Order

Begging the immediate question - who's going to get stuck rewriting all those Sherlock Holmes passages about the objectivity and fair play of the British legal system:

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Church of England, sparked controversy on Thursday when he said the introduction of Sharia law for British Muslims was "unavoidable."... He said that the introduction of Sharia law would mean that British Muslims would no longer have to choose between "the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty." The Anglican leader advocated giving Sharia official status in the UK on the grounds that it would help maintain social cohesion, as some Muslims do not relate to the British legal system... "It seems unavoidable and, as a matter of fact, certain conditions of Sharia are already recognized in our society and under our law, so it is not as if we are bringing in an alien and rival system," he said.

In fairness, he is right about the widespread adoption of sharia courts in Britain. And since they're already there, the Brits might as well give up. That's certainly how Churchill would've dealt with it.

And no, we don't think they'll actually go through the trouble of rewriting the Sherlock Holmes books. That's not their style.

References:
* 'UK should adopt sharia law for muslims' [JPost]
* We're Going To Miss Westminster Abbey - Sharia Courts Established In Britain [MR]
* Hamas More Or Less Embraces Book Burning (Plus: Europe and Russia Rush To Reward Them With Aid!) [MR]

Previously:
* We're Going To Miss Westminster Abbey - British Artists Terrified Of Muslim Lunatics, British Cops Apologizing For Muslim Lunatics
* We're Going To Miss Westminster Abbey - Demographic Time Bomb Set To Explode In Britain Some Time Around Next Christmas
* We're Going To Miss Westminster Abbey - English Is A Foreign Language To Forty Percent Of British Schoolchildren (Plus: Brits Begin To Seriously Contemplate Life Under Sharia Law)

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