Canada: Use of Sharia law by Muslims okay, report says

Toronto Star ^ | 12/20/04 | CANADIAN PRESS

[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

[Mike1973]

Time to start stoning the Canadians.

[Red Badger]

Oh, Canada! Enjoy your dhimmitude.....Been nice knowin' ya!....BYE!....

[Arkie2]

So if a Muslim wants to commit an honor killing the arbitator would split the difference and recommend an honor ass kicking instead?

[2banana]

As long as they don't say "Merry Christmas" - who cares?

[freecopper01]

Wait until the first open stoning of a woman for adultry. One guarter of the crowd will be thrilled, one will be angry at the fact only the female is being stoned, one quarter will be saying how nice it is to be honoring someone's religion and the fourth....will be filming it....

[Personal Responsibility]

Why does the world kowtow so much to muslims? I find it tough to believe that the Canadians would be so overeager to bend over backwards for the Jews, Hindus, Catholics, Buddhists etc...if given the opportunity.

[GeekDejure]

Bye Bye, Can Ahh Duh !!!

[Eva]

So, all Canadians need to do to get around spousal inheritance is to claim that it is against their religion and the family takes back the family business and the wife becomes a ward of the state. Great, I guess that means that Suha Arafat should not inherit either. Or did I miss read the article?

[broadsword]

But ALL Muslims aren't slaughtering us infidels and acting like seventh-century savages and sexually mutilating little girls and opently declaring their intention to dominate the world and cutting women's fingers off for wearing fingernail polish and lying to us as a Koranic "virtue" and whipping little boys to death for eating in public during Ramadan and shooting infants point blank in the head and oppressing every other religion on their "holy" Muslim lands and issuing fatwas on everybody who displeases them and burning churches and destroying ancient statues and taking shool children hostage for rape and murder and kidnapping people for slavery and ravaging through civilized nations in rape gangs and sniping innocent people in Washington D.C. and fragging their American officers and sabotaging parachute straps and declaring war on America and bombing nightclubs and slitting the throats of aid workers and dancing in the streets on 9/11 or murdering Muslims who convert to any other religion. Until fully 100% of Muslims do this you can't criticize or be suspicious of Islam. Please be reasonable and wait until EVERY infidel is slaughtered before you call the Religion of Peace into question. (gag!)

I guess Canada decided to:

How about we just seal off BOTH borders.

[liberateUS]

I think can hear the "call to prayer" over the newly installed public address systems already!

[broadsword]

But, but, but, maybe Sharia law is actually intelligent and thoughtful and, and, and GOOD! Perhaps you owe Shariah law an apology. (/sarcasm)

[Billthedrill]

But it's LEGAL to get stoned in Canada, isn't it?

[antiRepublicrat]

I don't see a problem. It's basically communities solving disputes themselves without taking up the resources of the public court system. It's fine as long as all participants agree to the arbitration and have a right to take it to the court system instead. In some cases women might come out ahead as opposed to arbitration based on other fundamentalist religious tradition (but probably not as opposed to the secular courts).

[MD_Willington_1976]

Only if a hockey stick was involved of course...

[jocko12]

These is nothing wait until all the demwits move and want no laws.this will be fun.

[tkathy]

A prime example of the flawed thinking that the left embraces.

[libs_kma]

"How about we just seal off BOTH borders."

Looks like we're going to have to do just that.

[Paleo Conservative]

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[Rummyfan]

Are we now going to see stonings and beheadings in Canada? I didn't think they still practiced capital punishment!