Jenny Taylor's blog

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.

Not one single government member attended a Westminster event on 24 Jan to showcase a rather special reconciliation effort that could bring hope for Britain’s troubled Muslim enclaves, reports Tim Scott.

It’s been left to the Tories to back Dr Prem Sharma’s and his group.  He’s a Hindu campaigner on interfaith relations, who has led a nationwide series of peace conferences that culminated in a meeting in Portcullis House last week.

Recent news of British teacher Gillian Gibbons; a teddy bear called Mohammed and an encounter with the Sudanese Government has faded somewhat into the background with the dawn of a new year. The issues, however, are deeply rooted, and, still simmer beneath the surface.

What was it about Sudan and Mrs Gibbons that resulted in her humiliation and albeit brief incarceration?