Is there another side to the sharia argument? (No)

Following much criticism of Rowan Williams' statement, Tom Freeman makes an even-handed and balanced post on the issue. Here it is in full:

I think I may have been too hasty in criticising Rowan Williams’s thoughts on sharia yesterday.

The truth is more nuanced: on the one hand, sharia law has an image of Talibanesque/Saudi fundamentalism, with savage and brutal punishments, but on the other hand –

Oh.