Past Programs
Law, Crime and Justice - 2008
Melanie Phillips on the Archbishop of Canterbury and Islamic Sharia law in Britain
13/02/2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury's suggestion that some form of sharia law is inevitable in Britain has provoked public outrage - The Times has labelled him a traitor and there have been calls for his resignation. Now Rowan Williams says he has been misunderstood - he never intended to suggest there should be parallel legal jurisdictions. We speak to the author of Londonistan, Melanie Phillips, about why Britain's elites seem so strangely reluctant to defend the idea of a common culture.
Michael Mumisa on the Archbishop of Canterbury and Islamic Sharia law in Britain
13/02/2008
Sheikh Michael Mumisa, an Islamic scholar based at Cambridge University, explains why the majority of Muslims in Britain don't want a bar of sharia law.
Concerning the Archbishop of Canterbury on Islamic Sharia law in Britain
13/02/2008
The Religion Report speaks with Melanie Phillips from "The Spectator" who has written on the Archbishop of Canterbury under the headline - Dhimmi - or just dim?". Also Sheikh Michael Mumisa from Cambridge University - an Islamic scholar based at Cambridge Unversity. He's opposed to Sharia law being introduced in the UK and says that in practice, it always disadvantages women.
