22 October 2012

A Tale of Two Rowans

.... A week after his call for a stricter law against giving religious offense, Williams delivered yet another six-thousand-word piece of oratory. This time his subject was sharia law, which, he urged, should be allowed a greater role in British jurisprudence.

As I have written elsewhere, the speech was “a masterly…exercise in euphemism and circumlocution” in which Williams sought over and over to convey the idea that sharia isn’t as bad as it’s cracked up to be, all the while wriggling and slithering around the incontrovertible facts of the matter in a way reminiscent of the most slick, slimy, and slippery of used-car salesman.

Williams’s disquisition was a full-out disgrace: an expression of an obscene readiness to forfeit British liberty – and to sacrifice the truth itself – in the name of sham “tolerance” and bogus “respect” for Islam. [Front Page] Read more