The Bench on the Left

A month ago (see my post the Church the Dimwits and the atheists) it was a former Archbishop of Canterbury who had called for the abolition of the blasphemy laws. Now the present incumbent has called for the introduction of some elements of Shari’a law into our system. You don’t usually hear much from Archbishops, so what is going on?

The point about the proposal to abolish the blasphemy laws is that it amounted to a plea for multiculturalism: blasphemy only exists against certain tenets held by the Established Church: you can’t blaspheme against other religions (at least it isn’t a crime).

This outburst by Rowan Williams is the same. He can’t see why there should be some aspects about living in Britain which are individual to Britain: in this case British Common Law which holds individual non-Muslim views about marriage and financial disputes among other things.

You never heard of multiculturalism 30 years ago. It crept into the language of the Left almost unnoticed as a replacement for multi-racialism. It is of course much different. The Left hate the nation state, whereas the British people, by and large, do not. In my view immigrants want to see Britishness here.

Now even the left has realised that we should be heading for a multiracial, monocultural society. All on the left, that is, except for the Church of England, which not only is proceeding on its multicultural way but has not noticed the shift of opinion against it in the last few years. I wrote in January ‘This recent blast is the last call of the manic multiculturalists’, but it seems they are not finished with us yet.

We should ask Rowan Williams to begin his multicultural journey in countries where Shari’a law applies.