Archbishop defends Sharia law comment

THE Archbishop of Canterbury defended yesterday his right to broach the sensitive subject of Sharia law, but accepted that comments which triggered a storm may have been unclear.

Addressing church leaders over the row, which has seen calls for his resignation as head of the Anglican Church, he accepted responsibility for misunderstandings over his initial remarks last week.

“I must of course take responsibility for any unclarity” or “any misleading choice of words that has helped cause distress or misunderstanding,” he told the General Synod, the Church of England’s governing body.