Archbishop in Favor of Sharia?
Rod Dreher (The Dallas Morning News) and Tom Pauken (Dallas Blog) are both up in arms again over the imminent collapse of Western Civilization. The trigger this time? The Archbishop of Canterbury said that "for the sake of peaceful coexistence in a diverse society, British lawmakers should come to some 'accommodation with some aspects of Muslim law'". Dreher calls it "utterly and completely pathetic." Pauken dredges up a decades-old book titled "Suicide of the West" in order to say, I told you so.
It's all much ado about nothing. In the US, to do business, you sometimes have to sign a contract that requires binding arbitration in case of a dispute, instead of allowing you to take your case to court. If the UK allows parties to willingly take their dispute regarding marriage, divorce, inheritance, etc., to a Sharia court instead of a civil court, so what? UK law already supports the notion of resolving disputes through arbitration, as long as both parties agree. Orthodox Jewish courts have operated in the UK for centuries. Codifying this practice and extending it to Sharia courts is just good sense, not the collapse of Western civilization.
Wal-Mart Health Clinics
Frontburner's Trey Garrison makes a habit of featuring every Wal-Mart price cut by sarcastically describing it as another case of Wal-Mart "exploiting the poor and downtrodden." He never correctly states that it isn't Wal-Mart's low prices that upset people. It's Wal-Mart's low wages and benefits and business practices like sex descrimination, union busting and coercing employees to work off the clock. But demolishing straw men is Garrison's modus operandi.
2 comments:
I hope the irony of that last sentence in light of the previous ones isn't lost on you.
Yep, lost. But thanks for playing.
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