Posted on 12/20/2004 11:51:43 AM PST by Pikamax
Use of Sharia law by Muslims okay, report says
CANADIAN PRESS
Ontario Muslims should have the same rights as Roman Catholics and Jews in the province to seek arbitration based on religious law for family disputes and inheritance cases, a report by former attorney general Marion Boyd concludes.
"The Arbitration Act should continue to allow disputes to be arbitrated using religious law," Boyd recommends in her report to the Ontario government.
Boyd was appointed to study the issue after the Islamic Institute for Civil Justice requested the right to offer religious-based arbitrations for family disputes based on Sharia law.
The proposal ran into opposition from women's groups, legal organizations and the Muslim Canadian Congress, who all warned that the 1,400-year-old Sharia law does not view women as equal.
But Boyd determined that Ontario should continue to allow religious-based arbitrations and mediations, including Sharia law, and recommended strengthening protections by requiring both parties to first seek independent legal advice.
However, another of her 46 recommendations would allow people seeking mediation to waive independent legal advice.
Boyd also recommends that mediators screen each party separately about issues of power imbalance and domestic violence before they enter into an arbitration agreement.
She also said the government should work with mediators and other professional organizations to develop a standard screening process for domestic violence.
A spokesman said Attorney General Michael Bryant would not be available today to comment on the report, but added the government would study Boyd's findings "very closely
Fear.
Business disputes, for one. Inheritance, child support and custody are also decided, but the parties can appeal such decisions to regular NY courts if they violate NY law or public policy (say, if some provision of Rabbinical law treats women unfairly in inheritance disputes).
1)Convert
2)Die
Muslims are a very small percentage of the population in the US and Canada. They have no power to make the rest of us do anything we don't want to do.
I'm from Canada originally. I just get ticked off when Freepers distort the Canadian legal system into something it isn't.
This issue is a pet peeve.
NO HOCKEY FOR YOU
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No Hockey?? Well den Puck Ewe, eh !!! ;-))
"He isn't fooling me either Bob, that's why I asked if he was Muslim."
Yea I think that we've made our points sufficiently here. I baited these guys twice, and they didn't bite.
That tells me that we have very professional trolls watching and participating on our site. Not much we can do, other than stick to our guns.
Your site? No offense, but you guys have been on this site about 5 minutes.
My position is that any government is incompetent to decide on the value or permissibility of a faith.
Which is very healthy for them. Americans won't roll over, and THEY know it.
Go away, bigot newbie.
I always do...always will.
Maybe a new pair of eyes makes it easier to see more clearly with.
"No offense, but you guys have been on this site about 5 minutes."
So you've been trolling for a long time here, that doesn't make you any less professional in your method.
I'm just saying that most of us, on this site, are not so easily fooled.
That's the thing - any dispute decided under arbitration, of any stripe, has to turn to the courts for enforcement. The courts would refuse to enforce any arbitration judgement which violated the legislative law or public policy.
I'll take your comment on my professionalism as a compliment.
Religious bigotry is wrongheaded and anti-Conservative. Your policy is to blame all members of a group for the actions of a few members. There's a word for that...liberalism!
" I'll take your comment on my professionalism as a compliment."
It's meant to be - I respect people that can go toe-to-toe with me, rather than resorting to name calling.
That tells me that we have very professional trolls watching and participating on our site. Not much we can do, other than stick to our guns.
By that standard, you lost long ago. Try again.
Interesting. From your post #113:
So you've been trolling for a long time here, that doesn't make you any less professional in your method.
What was that about name-calling again?
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