I believe the Archbishop has done something enormously courageous, perhaps without realizing it. He’s dropped a bomb on multi-culturalism.
With his huge, dense speech on the shariah at the Royal Courts of Justice on Thursday night, he has woken the country from its self-delusion. There have been whole university departments devoted to what’s called ‘comparative law’ in UK for twenty years at least, and a huge amount published on it – but no one pays attention to religion. It’s because of secularization that the ABC’s speech has come as such a shock.
