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LONDON, England (CNN) -- The two most senior members of the Church of England have told British Prime Minister Tony Blair the Iraq jail abuse scandal has damaged the coalition in the eyes of Muslims.
The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and the Archbishop of York David Hope delivered their rebuke to the Blair in a letter that was posted on the church's Web site Wednesday.
"The apparent breach of international law in relation to the treatment of Iraqi detainees has been deeply damaging," said the letter, which was written on behalf of 110 English bishops.
"The appearance of double standards inevitably diminishes the credibility of Western governments with the people of Iraq and of the Islamic world more generally," it added.
"More fundamentally still, there is a wider risk to our own integrity if we no longer experience a sense of moral shock at the enormity of what appears to have been inflicted on those who were in the custody of western security forces."
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