The official web site of A.H. Lloyd

It’s been a while since the Church of England caught my attention, but the Archbishopess of Canterbury has provided yet more evidence that she was a lazy diversity hire to further the cause of woke Christian virtue signaling.

On the 25^th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, she – or someone working for her – thought it would be a good idea to give a Pakistani Muslim cleric an award for interfaith cooperation and reconciliation.  Now I think this whole interfaith business needs to stop since it doesn’t actually do anything other than undermine traditional Christianity and blur the lines between stark differences between religions, but if one is going to do it, maybe not do it with an Osama Bin Laden sympathizer and blasphemy law enthusiast.

Note that the link is to a BBC article because I’m trying to be charitable. Apparently this guy does say nice things about Christians and urges that not all of them be punished, but that’s not actual tolerance, it’s supporting dhimmitude. Under the traditional Islamic order, Christians were often tolerated, but only insofar as they accepted inferior social states and de facto acknowledged Islam as a superior faith. The blasphemy laws in Pakistan are largely enforced against Christians who are expected to know their place.

Again, this is nothing new.  It was the default setting of the various caliphates and the Ottoman Empire.  Perhaps we should retroactively give those guys awards, too.

Dame Sarah Mullally was clearly installed in Lambeth Palace for political and cultural reasons, a way to crush the last remnants of traditional Anglicanism, and this price for this is clumsy, tone-deaf mistakes like this.  Like all the woke denominations, the goal is not the salvation of souls but rather making self-righteous people feel good about themselves.  It is exclusively focused on this world, not the next.

This was obviously an attempt to show tolerance and flip the script on the 9/11 anniversary – “See how good we are, loving Muslims!  Not all are terrorist supporters!”  Liberal Christians are always trying to find a Muslim unicorn, and this debacle is the result.

Of course the award was rescinded, which will actually make things worse for Pakistani Christians, but that was never a concern. The point was to place the Church of England at the forefront of Muslim-Christian dialog. Even if the guy hadn’t turned out to be a jihad enthusiast, the photo of him accepting the honor with his wife covered head to toe pretty much gives the lie that these people have anything meaningful in common with one another.