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merchimerch ([personal profile] merchimerch) wrote2008-02-11 09:25 am

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And the Archbishop of Canterbury's comments on Sharia law in the UK continue to spark drama:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7239409.stm

Once again, I think it is amazing how people can read the same statements and interpret them in such vastly different ways. When you add to that the suspicion about Islam which verges on hysteria at times, I suppose it's a recipe for uproar.

[identity profile] aelfscine.livejournal.com 2008-02-11 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
*nod* for a lot of folks, merely having 'Islam' and 'human being' in the same sentence is enough to get the pitchforks and torches.