Puteri’s World

I agree with Rush Limbaugh, Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, has lost it.

Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4’s World at One that the UK has to “face up to the fact” that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.

Dr Williams argues that adopting parts of Islamic Sharia law would help maintain social cohesion.

Full story here.

If these Muslims who migrated to the UK cannot relate to the British legal system as claimed by Dr Williams, why on earth did they want to move to the UK in the first place? If the sharia law is such a good law, they should have stayed in whatever country they had come from!

If the UK capitulates on this issue and allows a segment of their society to have their own laws, how are those who are Muslims, but do not want to be under the jurisdiction of sharia law, going to be able to opt out from being under that sharia jurisdiction?

Malaysia is a prime example. Sharia law over-rides the civil law when it comes to dealing with Muslims in family and religious disputes.

Today, the Archbishop is back tracking on his earlier comments. Today he is insisting that he “never called for the introduction for the Muslim system”.

I agree with the Culture Secretary Andy Burnham. Allowing a segment of British society to have their own laws will only be a “recipe for social chaos”.

What does freedom of expression mean to you? Does freedom of expression include the right to offend others?

According to the Dutch Foreign Minister, Maxime Verhagen, “freedom of expression doesn’t mean the right to offend”. If freedom of expression doesn’t mean the right to offend, then I guess freedom of expression is worthless.

Maxime Verhagen said those words at the prospect of a fellow law-maker’s film that is supposed to be “anti-Islamic” that is going to be released some time next week.

According to Ahmad Badr al-Din Hassoun, the Grand Mufti of Syria, it is the Dutch government’s responsibility to stop Geert Wilders, the law-maker responsible for the making of the film, because if the film is to be found offensive enough, “this will mean he (Wilders) is inciting wars and bloodshed.”

I’m sorry, in this modern day and age, no matter how offensive Jesus Christ and Christianity have been portrayed, I will not start a war or join a war defending my religion and my Savior. My religion teaches me to “turn the other cheek” and teaches me not to take revenge because vengeance belongs to God.

Freedom of expression includes the right to offend otherwise freedom of expression has no meaning.