Rowan Williams - Resign!

Ben Kwashi, Archbishop of Jos in Northern Nigeria, responds to the Archbishop of Canterbury's view that Sharia law is unavoidable in the UK.

Archbishop Ben Kwashi: Our people here are in shock that an Anglican Archbishop is calling for Sharia Law. If the Christians are the ones asking for Sharia Law, now that will be used against us who are saying that we do not think Sharia law will help the cause of freedom and the cause of the gospel of Jesus Christ in Northern Nigeria. So if he, the primate of England, is the one asking for it, now what he has done is to arm those who will now have more arguments against us who are saying "We don't need Sharia law."

BBC: And in your situation you see the reality of what Sharia law can be.

BK: We have experienced it. We know it and in the last nine years full blown Sharia law has been introduced in at least 11 states in Northern Nigeria, and what the church are experiencing in these states is, to say the least, unbearable.

BBC: How surprised are you that a Christian Archbishop should have suggested, in some circumstances, that Sharia might be an appropriate part of the legal system in a country like Britain?

BK. I am shocked. I am disappointed. I am in total disbelief. Because my hope is that when he, Archbishop of Canterbury, comes to Nigeria for example, and he comes to visit us, we will take him to our leaders, some of whom are Muslims and some of whom are Christians, and he can then speak on our behalf where we are not having a fair share. Can we now look up to him as a man who can speak on our behalf? You all know about the cutting of hands in Zamfara State. You remember the case of the woman in Kaduna State who was going to be stoned to death. All of those kinds of things are what we now are saying that we must examine carefully the implementation of Sharia and we are putting our discussions across with our own Muslim friends around here.

BBC: The Archbishop was very clear that he did not want to see those sorts of inhuman punishments, he called them, implemented in Britain. Is there a danger that this argument is getting confused?

BK. It is not confused at all. Because once you ask for the first step of Sharia law you are going to get to the last of it. By 1960 when Nigeria got Independence, it began as penal code. Once it came to this generation they upgraded it to full blown Sharia. So it is only a matter of time when you begin from somewhere that you get to the real thing.

(Transcript from VirtueOnline: http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7659 )

Update. Further comments from Archbishop Kwashi: http://tinyurl.com/24lj67

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[db0db1]

Update. There's a new link to further comments by Archbishop Kwashi in the About This Video blurb.

[dibbuck]

The hairy Bishop is right just look at the upside of SHaria law guys:

1) Homos get bashed again so we dont have constant mincers all over the tv all the time yapping on about anal foreplay and dressing up

2) Feminists will have to stop pretending to be good at mens work and getting legs up at work though still being illogical and emotional retards

3) Jews get angry and outraged which is usually amusing

4) Beards are cool

5) Public stonings could be entertaining

[db0db1]

Small-cocked unfunny moron.

[jpandyaraja]

why is this archbishop so much in a hurry

to become a muslim ? with assholes like

this in the church ,no wonder most christians

are becoming athiests..!!

[12ut5]

I can't help thinking that if anything like stoning or amputation can occur, legally, under a legal system, like sharia, in any country in the world, even once, then that legal system must be, inherently, flawed and should not even be contemplated for even token or minimal parrel juridiction in any democratic, or developing democratic, country. This talk about we'll just not allow the bad stuff to happen is nonsense. Why should a system be introduced, in any way, that allows that stuff?

[lightandbeautiful]

Homosexual activists understand the power of words.

Please visit my channel to watch a one-minute video clip in which famous atheist Richard Dawkins admits that homosexual activists "hijacked the word 'gay'".

The word "homosexual" is more appropriate and accurate because it, unlike the word "gay", actually describes the behavior/attraction/relationsh­ip being discussed.

The word "gay" helps homosexual activists push their agenda.

[StevenBee2]

"Rowan Williams does the most perfect impression of a Welsh sheep" - Christopher Hitchens

[Ulai777]

Williams is a Moron

[XrenegadeZ]

They are not gay... just deluded and scientists are not old men in white coats

[nihilionsaro]

muslims and christians are both gay. start listening to old men in white coats (scientists) not old men in robes.

[yuslan]

i guess only he has the answer.maybe he has see it thoroughly before suggesting to implement it.what i know malaysia is an islamic state and i never heard of anyone got his limb cut off for stealing or any other kind, except canning or death sentence for serious offences. Even in singapore, which is a secular country, canning and death sentence is one of the penalty.

[12ut5]

You know he hasn't, but that doesn't mean that I, and many, don't think he should, as was shown by the overwhelming negative reaction in Britain and around the world to his statements. If he isn't forced to resign, it will only be because no leader of the Anglican Church ever has, and, because he is lucky. That's it. Whether, in the end, he resigns or not, is, in a way, beside the point: he will not get a second chance on this nor will anyone else who makes similar statements on this subject.

[yuslan]

i see..thanks..so, has he resigned?

[12ut5]

yuslan, what you are hearing is the voice of people who recognize that sharia law is, fundamentally and ultimately, incompatible with democracy, freedom and human rights. Part of that voice is, yes, a fear of anything that would threaten those things for which we would give our lives to protect. What you, apparently, do not hear is our willingness to defend what we hold dear. Mr. Williams may be a "thinker", and he may have been "appointed", but he, too, unfortunately, is hard of hearing.