Douglas Carswell, MP for Harwich & Clacton and a CentreRight contributor, explains why sharia cannot be implemented into UK law to any degree.
Unlike Rowan Williams, Sayed Qutb - the intellectual architect of political Islamism - was never noted for his nuance. Qutb's 1964 manifesto, Milestones, is to the point; sharia - the law of God - needs to be forcefully imposed on a decadent (jahili) world by a revolutionary Islamic vanguard.
Qutb argued that God's sovereignty over all the earth is violated wherever there is no sharia. Anyone who therefore ignores sharia in favour of man-made laws cannot be a true Muslim.
However one looks at what Dr Williams said - and millions on Al Jazeera have - his comments can only have encouraged those inspired by Qutb's teachings.
As the BBC has been quick to point out, Dr Williams was not apparently arguing for nasty hand-chopping sharia. No, he simply wants a little bit of civil sharia. Just in a few cases. Domestic disputes, you understand. By consent, of course. No "blank cheques", whatever that means.
Yet, if Qutb's Milestones is anything to go by, the kind of folk who want sharia - bar the odd Anglican clergyman - are unlikely to be satisfied with sharia's limited application in a few civil cases.
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