Thursday, February 14, 2008

Hitchens: "diamond in a dunghill"

"...as the great Lord Mansfield once ruled that, wherever someone might have been born, and whatever he had been through, he could not be subject to slavery once he had set foot on English soil. Simple enough? For the women who are the principal prey of the sharia system, it is often only when they are shipped or flown to Britain that their true miseries begin."
Up to his usual standards, Christopher Hitchens has written a brilliant piece demolishing the position taken by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Read it here.

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