The archbishop will have known very well the reaction this would produce in the same way that Jack Straw's mention of Islamic women covering up was probably a deliberate and timely provocative statement.
Sharia Law, or a form of it, in Britain ? Two takes really, one is that this is the ripe time for the guys at the very top, from the PM downwards, to make utterly emphatic statements that this can never happen - so far this is mercifully the case.
The other take - let them go ahead, with the critical proviso that Sharia can NEVER be applied outside the muslim ' community '. Let non-muslim Britain watch it in action. Ultimately it would be nice to see the BBC televise public beheadings in Bradford (there are huge amounts of gushing arterial blood), or homosexual teenagers hauled up by a halter on a crane to strangle slowly. The cameras and sound systems could zoom in to catch the chokes and gurgles. The commentator would be hard pressed to place a politically correct spin on it, assuming of course he could make himself heard over the horde of savages baying 'Allah is great' (and oh so very merciful and beneficient).
Naughty whiffey.