From The London Guardian-
We were talking here only yesterday about the foolish thoughts of British-Bengali Roshonara Choudhry, and how an Islamist website turned her mind from promising academic success to planning a murder. There's a lot of it about.
Open today's newspapers and we are reminded that grandiose folly is not confined to impressionable youngsters. The Times reports how Bishop Wallace Benn, the Anglicans' point-man at Lewes in Sussex, compared supporters of the ordination of women to Hitler's looming onslaught in 1939.
I'd never heard of Bishop Benn and would be happy not to hear of him again. He is patently a silly man in the same way that self-absorbed Islamist radicals are silly and narcissistic. Here's what he told fellow traditionalists at a "reform" conference of conservative Anglicans:
I'm about to use an analogy and I use it quite deliberately and carefully. And it slightly frightens me to use it, but I do think it's where we're at. I feel very much increasingly that we're in January of 1939. We need to be aware that there is real, serious warfare just round the corner. It's actually arrived in some places already. And we're in a challenging and serious situation.
What's Benn on about? Can't you guess? It's the desire of the Archbishop of Canterbury and a majority at the Anglican parliament – the Synod – to ordain more women in general and female bishops in particular. It runs parallel with the running feud over gay bishops, also driven hard by evangelicals like Benn.
More here-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2010/nov/03/michael-white-media-questionable-views
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