Feb. 8th, 2008

Well there's a lot of kerfuffle about Archbishop Rowan's lecture on Civil and Religious Law in England: a religious perspective. Most of it seems to be from people reacting to the media coverage rather than what ++Rowan actually says, and as ever the media coverage doesn't get to grips with ++Rowan's deep thoughts.

People appear to be reacting to their associations for the word Shar'ia which is that it's a repressive, patriarchial law code which calls for barbaric punishments and oppresses women. Given ++Rowan's positions on these subjects (I'm guessing he's anti-death penalty and I know he's pro-equality for women), it is ridiculous to think that that is what he is calling for!
My take on the lecture )
He concludes:
In conclusion, it seems that if we are to think intelligently about the relations between Islam and British law, we need a fair amount of 'deconstruction' of crude oppositions and mythologies, whether of the nature of sharia or the nature of the Enlightenment.


The irony is that in the `debate' that has followed people have stuck with the crude oppositions and mythologies and have not engaged with the substance of the lecture at all!

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