Rowan Williams is the Archbishop of Canterbury and is regarded as the world wide head of the Anglican communion.

In his latest interview given to the Muslim lifestyle magazine Emel Rowan Williams attacks America under George W. Bush for its foreign policy. He even goes even further and characterizes America as an imperial colonising power worse than the British at the height of their colonial empire:

“In an interview with a British Muslim publication, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, a longstanding opponent of the Iraq war, has taken his criticism of U.S. foreign policy to a new level.

The U.S. has lost the moral high ground since 9/11, he told Emel, a Muslim “lifestyle” magazine edited by a former Catholic convert to Islam. As a result, he said, it should launch a “generous and intelligent program of aid directed to the societies that have been ravaged; a check on the economic exploitation of defeated territories; a demilitarization of their presence.”

Williams called the U.S. the world’s only “global hegemonic power,” and suggested that its policies in Iraq were worse than British colonialism.

“It is one thing to take over a territory and then pour energy and resources into administering it and normalizing it. Rightly or wrongly, that’s what the British Empire did — in India, for example,” he was quoted as saying.

“It is another thing to go in on the assumption that a quick burst of violent action will somehow clear the decks and that you can move on and other people will put it back together — Iraq, for example.”

Williams also attacked Christian Zionism — active support for Israel based on the belief that its re-establishment in 1948 was in line with biblical prophecy.

The archbishop said he found Christian Zionists’ views “very strange, and not at all easy to accept.”

Williams said they were connected to “the chosen-nation myth of America, meaning that what happens in America is very much at the heart of God’s purpose for humanity.” (Source: Cross Walk)

Let us try to forgive Rowan Williams for his unjustifiable comments as it looks like he does not know yet that western Christian civilisation is in the last death throws of a war with Islamofascist barbarians and that America and George W. Bush are the last hope for the free world. May the Lord forgive him for his ignorance.

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