http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7232661.stm
The Bishop of the Canterbury, the highest authority
in the Anglican Churches and somehow the counter-part
to the Catholic Pope , has made news lately.
He has proposed to offer an open-ear to the Sharia laws
whereby some parts of it may be integrated into the British Law.
I welcome this proposal and congratulate the Anglican Church
for having such an honest and open-minded Arch-Bishop.
Being myself a Christian-Arab , and more precisely a
Protestant-Christian-Arab , I am lucky to be able to understand
the huge and numerous similarities between Islam and Christianity.
My late father used to say :
" I wish that the Prophet Mohammad could have had the correct version
of the Bible in his hands , and equally I wish that Martin Luther could
have
read the holy Koran"
But my case is irrelevant here , what I welcome and salute
is the open-mind of that Arch-Bishop who admitted that parts
of the Sharia could be compatible and non-contradicting
and practically applicable to the modern-day-Brittan.
You will surely can guess who has complaint against those Bishop's
remarks and what reaction has come from the controlled media.
As a Christian who speaks Arabic as his mother tongue , I have no
problem at all in understanding the Sharia , from the social point of view
and also from the practical and legal sides.
How many of my readers do know that in Sharia Law ,for example,
if and when a Husband cannot satisfy his wife's sexual-needs
for a period longer than seven weeks.....the wife is then
entitled to ask for an official divorce ??
And how many of my Muslim friends do know that here in
the (Christian) Netherlands , marital-adultery is not a reason
for demanding of a divorce....??
Meaning that if a Dutchman comes home to find his wife
in bed with the whole national-football-team (11 persons)
it will not be a valid reason for asking to divorce her.....
Law and Justice are subject to many interpretations
and even Justice is named after a person (Justinianus)
although Justice is more important than any Law
because the later is man-written.
But the Sharia is not man-written
and who ever has written the Sharia never died !
and cannot die !! .
Back to the Arch-Bishop and to his recent proposal,
I would like to add that I prefer to see Christian values
being protect by Islam , than any other third religion
or any atheist entity or system .......Democracy or a non-democracy.
Secularism is nice but when it comes to human-values and religions
one ought to be extra careful and more vigilant.
Secularism is good to write a law about the speed of my car
on the highway , but for human and humane matters we need God
and any God-written-laws and not any man-made-rules....
I congratulate Great Britain for this Great Arch-Bishop
because GB needs such great-open-minds ,
after that shameful catastrophe and filth called : Tony Blair....
Raja Chemayel
13.02.08
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