More on that Archbishop of Canterbury meeting:
Presumably not for his support for Islamic blasphemy laws in Pakistan and the death penalty that comes with them?
Nor for his claim that “Jews and Christians” were using the war in Iran to target Iran’s nuclear weapons?
Nor for his reported comments that suicide bombings in Afghanistan were lawful?
The naivety of our public institutions for engaging with people like this is staggering.
But not surprising.
We are failed time and again by liberals who believe other cultures are basically the same as ours, and the world is or wants to be just like us.
They’re completely wrong.
And their assumptions, behaviour and arrogant refusal to accept that they ARE wrong is deadly – not just for public safety but our whole way of life.
Also, from 2007:
In Pakistan, Allama Tahir Ashrafi, the head of the Pakistan Ulema Council, said the group had decided to honour Osama bin Laden in response to the Rushdie knighthood. He is to be given the title of Saifullah, or Sword of God.
Why did he bring his wife to the award ceremony, then, if she comes along wearing a hood over her head with two slits for eyes? It looks like a provocation to me – this is how women should be: hidden, silent, submissive. It made Mullally, the first woman head of the Church of England, look ridiculous – which admittedly isn’t hard to do.
Added: see David Collier’s take – Lambeth Palace has lost the plot.
The award represents something far uglier than institutional ignorance. It becomes an act of anticipatory submission – proleptic dhimmitude. The Anglican Church has become a Christian establishment so fearful of excluding or offending powerful Islamic representatives that it bends before them, conferring honour and legitimacy while asking almost nothing about the treatment of Christians in the societies from which they come. It is a grotesque moral inversion, through which persecuted Christians are rendered invisible, while a prominent figure from the religious establishment within which they suffer is celebrated as an architect of reconciliation.
Collier points out something that I’d missed: the hooded wife is wearing the medal. Is this because Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi refused to shake hands with or be touched by a woman? Is this why the wife came along?
What a farce.
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