Descending to Constructive Accommodation
Posted by: Jonathan Constantine | 02/09/2008 9:10 PM
Roger Kimball wrote an amazing piece on his blog at Pajamas Media on the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowand Williams. The supposed holy man, who is stricken with severe diarrhea of the mouth, recently told a BBC reporter that Britons must face the fact that since Muslims may not relate the British legal system, they must make constructive legal accommodations. To which Robert Kimball gave a brilliant retort to the selling-out of the civilizing force of English virtue for the totalitarian heavy handedness of Sharia law:
The proper answer to such gambits was formulated in the 19th century by General Charles Napier when dealing with sutte, the Indian custom of burning a widow on her husband's funeral pyre: "You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."
Kimball is right to encourage the self-assertion of Britons in the face of political correctness. Just look to the wisdom of the great British statesman and orator Edmund Burke:
All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
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