On Law and Faith: The Sharia and Public Life
Last week's comments by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, are an important discussion not just for the 80 million Anglicans worldwide and the close to 2 million Muslims in the United Kingdom, but also for all people of faiths wrestling with the relationship of faith in the public sphere. Archbishop Williams also said "there is a constructive relationship between Islamic law and the statutory law of the United Kingdom." The query here is "What is the relationship of the sharia and the law of the land wherever it is the U.K., the Philippines, India, or the U.S.A.?"

