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Ontario Sharia Tribunals Assailed
Toronto Star ^ | May 22, 2004 | Lynda Hurst

Posted on 05/23/2004 3:00:02 PM PDT by hardhead

Had she stayed in Iran, Homa Arjomand would now be dead.

All — all — of the women's activists she worked with in Tehran have been executed, victims of a reactionary regime that ruled, and continues to rule, by strict adherence to Islam's sharia law.

In 1989, she and her husband paid $15,000 to smugglers to help them and their two young children flee the country.

For three days, they rode on horseback through the mountains, sleeping in barns before finally reaching Turkey.

Two years later, the onetime professor of medical physics arrived in Canada as a refugee. And how grateful she was to be in a secular country, where female equality was the law.

That was then.

Last fall, Arjomand, now a transitional counsellor in Toronto for immigrant women, heard the province had quietly approved the use of Islamic law in Ontario's Muslim community.

(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: canada; islamictrojanhorse; muslim; sharia; tribunal
Isn't this grand? Open borders with our neighbors to the north - this ought to be a barrel of fun. Did anyone else notice this news story. They're sneaking in....
1 posted on 05/23/2004 3:00:05 PM PDT by hardhead
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To: hardhead

Don't forget the Michigan "Call to prayer" broadcast 5 times day.


2 posted on 05/23/2004 3:05:09 PM PDT by lainde (Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades...And panties!)
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To: hardhead
The women's council's 900 members come from all Islamic sects: Shia, Sunni, Sufi, Wahhabi, Somali and Ismaili. "It is difficult for us to speak out because we are practising, pro-faith Muslims who don't want to provide ammunition to those who malign Islam."

Ain't that great. The basis for their misery is something they are afraid of maligning.

I'm sure Canadiens will be proud of themselves for their tolerance when the first rape victim is stoned or burned alive for dishonoring her family.

I hear the Brits and perhaps other Euros aren't willing to cooperate in Saddam's trial, because the death penalty "might" be involved.

These same Euros have spilled more blood throughout history than most.

The world has gone haywire.

3 posted on 05/23/2004 3:15:31 PM PDT by Mister Baredog ((Kerry is a major dork))
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To: Canadian Outrage; Mo1; grannie9; ValerieUSA; .38sw; celtic gal; sweetliberty
Kanukistan double disgusting PING !!

So9

4 posted on 05/23/2004 3:46:28 PM PDT by Servant of the 9 (Screwing the Inscrutable or is it Scruting the Inscrewable?)
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To: Servant of the 9

Up there they're allowing Islam to trump secular law. Here, secularism/socialism is attempting to dictate the doctrines of the church. Is there no will to act to put a stop to this insanity? This makes me sick.


5 posted on 05/23/2004 3:53:21 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.")
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To: hardhead
"A Halifax woman called Alia Hogben to say that if the tribunals come to pass, she will no longer consider herself a Muslim."

Why wait? The truth will set you free and confer true equality upon you.

6 posted on 05/23/2004 6:13:42 PM PDT by Eastbound
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To: Mister Baredog

EEEEGADS!! This is one Canadian who is NOT proud of the so called tolerance. But then I'm not proud of ANYTHING that comes out of Ottawa. I want to see ALL the Liberals A$$es going down the road.!! I feel quite sure that IF a lot of Canadians really KNEW the things these ever reigning QUEBEC LIBERALS have passed behind all our backs, their support would be lost overnight. But alas, these corrupt Liberals have managed to keep their secrets for a long time. It's only just recently that some of their monetary scandals are being revealed and their support has plummeted. Whether it will be enough to get rid of them I don't know but I know we may get them down to a minority government. Once they are a minority in this system, you can overturn the government quite easily. It was done once that I recall.


7 posted on 05/23/2004 7:10:34 PM PDT by Canadian Outrage (IAll us Western Canuks belong South!!!)
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To: Servant of the 9; sweetliberty

Makes me DISGUSTING SICK also!! I've come to the conclusion that Liberals are so dumb that only a few suicide bombers lighting themselves up in Ottawa, preferably in the Parliament buildings, would open their eyes. Even then, I'm not so sure. I've pretty much written this Country off as destroyed anyway. We have pockets of "real" Conservatism such as where I am, but that's about it!!


8 posted on 05/23/2004 7:15:43 PM PDT by Canadian Outrage (IAll us Western Canuks belong South!!!)
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To: Canadian Outrage
Once they are a minority in this system, you can overturn the government quite easily. It was done once that I recall.

We did it here in California and the term was RECALL!!! LOL!!!

9 posted on 05/24/2004 7:03:25 AM PDT by Mister Baredog ((Kerry is a major dork))
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To: Mister Baredog

Yes I watched that recall with great joy!!


10 posted on 05/24/2004 2:03:15 PM PDT by Canadian Outrage (IAll us Western Canuks belong South!!!)
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