Finally growing a (tiny) pair?

The sheer blandicity of the C of E over the last few decades has often made me wonder just what the hell they were up too. The placing of the Arch Druid in charge of them did them no favours either, as all he was to me was a political placeman of the Blair regime, too right on and politically correct to actually be a Christian of the type needed in this country. His comments on Shariah merely confirming that the guy actually hadn't a clue what was going on in Britain's inner cities.
Still it does look like the C of E or bits of it anyway might just be starting to grow a pair if this is anything to be going by.
Mail.

The Church of England has told its schools to ensure they are serving non-halal food after concerns that a number are only providing meat slaughtered according to Islamic law.

The official guidance was issued after Church members complained that the use of halal meat was effectively ‘spreading sharia law’ across Britain.

The Church’s financial arm has also come under pressure to withdraw its investments – worth millions of pounds – in supermarkets that do not clearly label halal food.

More than 10,000 Christians, many of whom have reservations about eating meat from animals that are bled to death while an Islamic prayer is recited, have signed a petition calling for proper labelling.

Animal rights campaigners have also expressed anger because animals are often not stunned before their throats are cut with a sharp knife.

The Rev Patrick Sookhdeo, an Anglican cleric who runs the international Barnabas Fund charity for Christians facing persecution, said some extremist Muslims viewed the growing  use of halal food as part of their efforts to ‘impose’ sharia law on the West.

 Halal is a cruel way to kill if stunning isn't used, but also I don't personally want a prayer to a vile false god said over anything I eat either. To me the only reason supermarkets don't label products as halal is because they know that many people wont buy them if they knew, yes it might be prejudiced, yes it might be petty, but people simply don't want it, so will buy alternatives if they know.
Who knows, if they are successful in this they could perhaps raise the matter of the slaughtered Copts in Egypt, or the fact that the last Christian church was raised to the ground in Afghanistan, or even the activities of the janjaweed militias in the Sudan and their use of slavery and ethnic cleansing on Christians in the Sudan.
For too long the C of E hierarchy has been blandness supreme, political placemen of the establishment. Perhaps, and it's only a perhaps, they are in danger of actually becoming a Christian church once more. Only time will tell.