There are calls for the current Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, to resign over her disastrous decision to give the Hubert Walter award to a prominent Muslim cleric from Pakistan who supports sharia law and vile blasphemy laws which are used to persecute Christians in Pakistan. He also supported Bin Laden. The treatment and persecutions of Christians in Pakistan are horrendous. They have been well documented by Open Doors and Barnabas Aid. The Pakistan legal system is woefully corrupt, and mobs have killed Christians.
The appearance of the wife of this Muslim leader dressed in a fully covered body by Burka is an insult to Lambeth Palace's Christian values and tradition.
This award to the Bin Laden supporter was at the time of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. He has not been known for acts of reconciliation and building bridges. He has never condemned jihadism, Islamic terrorism. On his watch Christians have been suffering painful persecution. His track record is dreadful.
What a failure of judgment.
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The optics are dreadful. The burka is an example of the oppression of women, and they have been badly treated as second class citizens on this Islamic leader's watch. His own wife's is a statement of terrible treatment and oppression. This is not about reconciliation and inter faith harmony at all.
His own wife’s burka is ..,
a terrible disgrace.
And Mullally is a supporter of women’s rights???
Truly amazing that this took place at the time of 9/11 and Sarah Mullally is an advocate of women's rights and opposed to female mistreatment by men, yet this niqab is an insult and crazy display of male chauvinism and misogyny.
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