The Wardman Wire

This is a list of articles in the press this morning. I have asterisked the ones that I recommend as worth reading. Most of the others are either largely personal attacks or seem (to me) to misrepresent what he said.

Guardian

Riazat Butt Archbishop backs sharia law for British Muslims

Elizabeth Stewart Q&A: Sharia law (*)

Andrew Brown Laws of the land (*)

The Times

Ruth Gledhill and Philip Webster Archbishop of Canterbury argues for Islamic law in Britain

Ruth Gledhill Has the Archbishop gone bonkers?

Daniel Finkelstein Why the Archbishop is wrong about Sharia

Ian Edge and Robin Griffiths-Jones Does Islam fit with our law? (*)

Daily Telegraph

Jonathan Petre Archbishop Williams sparks Sharia law row (*)

Christopher Howse Sharia is no law for Britain (*)

Gordon Rayner Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

Williams attacked over Sharia law comments

BBC

Archbishop sparks Sharia law row

Christopher Landau Sharia law and the British legal system (*)

Nick Tarry Religious courts already in use (*)

And from the blogs

Archbishop Cranmer highlights some of the nuances, but thinks the ABC has been foolish.

Global Dashboard (highlighted yesterday).

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I have stolen the original list of newspaper articles from Simon Sarmiento over at Thinking Anglicans.