Archbishop of Canterbury: Islamic Law for UK "seems unavoidable".(Inside Track)

Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, sparked controversy last month when he said that Sharia (Islamic) law in the United Kingdom "seems unavoidable." As reported by the Guardian, "Williams, the most senior figure in the Church of England, said that giving Islamic law official status in the UK would help to achieve social cohesion because some Muslims did not relate to the British legal system." The British paper quoted Williams as saying, "If what we want socially is a pattern of relations in which a plurality of diverse and overlapping affiliations work for a common good, and in which groups of serious and profound conviction are not systematically faced with the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty, it ...