Well-bred Trotskyite Crank puts Idiot Archbishop in His Proper Place

Pardon the interuption of politics and religion which are two subjects never to be mentioned in polite company. But, I wanted to shout hail and hearty thanks to Christopher Hitchens. Mr. Hitchens is the son of a Royal Navy Officer who though a proud Tory allowed his son to become a disgraceful Trotskyite.

Despite his athiestic and leveling tendencies Christopher Hitchens occassionally says something favored in my corner of the Barrister's Keep and because he's a very clever man his words are well put assault on the idiotic babblings of the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowen Williams, who recently expressed sympathy for Sharia law applying to Britain's Muslim population.

Hitchens had this to say about that dross:

Picture the life of a young Urdu-speaking woman brought to Yorkshire from
Pakistan to marry a man—quite possibly a close cousin—whom she has never met. He takes her dowry, beats her, and abuses the children he forces her to bear. She is not allowed to leave the house unless in the company of a male relative and unless she is submissively covered from head to toe. Suppose that she is able to contact one of the few support groups that now exist for the many women in Britain who share her plight. What she ought to be able to say is, "I need the police, and I need the law to be enforced." But what she will often be told is, "Your problem is better handled within the community." And those words, almost a death sentence, have now been endorsed and underwritten—and even advocated—by the country's official spiritual authority.

Three cheers for the rule of law!