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

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

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If Canadian courts are a recourse.....why have Shira courts?

I don't mean to sound snippy here, but are you freakin' kidding me?

[Eva]

The end result between the enforcement of Sharia over or under Canadian law may be the same for a woman, but it is a degradation of the Canadian law that the citizens seem to be too dense to recognize.

[hershey]

Thank you for that excellent list. Not that we tend to forget mass murder, etc., but it's best to see horror in its entirety.

[hershey]

It's a problem because women in Muslim society are just ahead of the family goat or maybe right behind said goat. Women will not report abuse, molestation, or any other infringement of their rights. They'll be scared to death. They know they'll get worse than the shaft in Sharia courts.

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I wish I could post pictures. I have a perfect one for you. It has a woman in full burka garb kneeling on a race-track, before the Taliban came along and out-lawed sports that is. A man is standing behind her with a pistol to the back of her head. In the picture you can see where the dust in front of her flies up as the bullet exits out the front of her head and hits the pavement.

You can have shira law...I want not part of it.

[hershey]

Maybe arbitration under Sharia sounds nice, but women will see it as another nail in the coffin of their civil liberties. They will suffer in silence, and that's criminal.

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Not should be NO...sorry

[broadsword]

Oh, but Modernappeaser says she will have recourse to the Canadian courts after they put a bullet through her head.

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Yep.

Appeasers, they just don't get it.

[Modernman]

You can have shira law...I want not part of it.

That's kind of the point- nobody is required to be bound by any provisions of Sharia law in Canada or the US.

[PGalt]

Individual vs. Collective
Freedom vs. Slavery
Life vs. Death

[Modernman]

If Canadian courts are a recourse.....why have Shira courts?

We keep going in circles. There are no Sharia courts in Canada. The only thing this new legislation has done is allow private parties to agree to have their CIVIL disputes resolved by an arbitrator (who is not a government official, BTW, he is a private person) under the provisions of Sharia law, so long as no Canadian law or public policy is violated.

[Modernman]

Oh, but Modernappeaser says she will have recourse to the Canadian courts after they put a bullet through her head.

Murder is still quite illegal in Canada. You're arguing a strawman.

[PGalt]

Melting pot vs. Multiculturalism

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Sorry about delay. This thing shut off, I had to come back. Give me a sec. I'll post my reply on your latest post to me.

[yoe]

The Qur'an is the principal source of Islamic law, the Sharia. It contains the rules by which the Muslim world is governed (or should govern itself) and forms the basis for relations between man and God, between individuals, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, as well as between man and things which are part of creation. The Sharia contains the rules by which a Muslim society is organized and governed, and it provides the means to resolve conflicts among individuals and between the individual and the state.

The "whether Muslim or non-Muslim" is the catch. Islam/Sharia puts women back into the dark ages of pitiful inequality. Marion Boyd has opened up a can of worms.

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http://pz.rawa.org/rawa/murder-w.htm

here's your shira law.

[Chemist_Geek]

Perhaps it's because I have friends and colleagues who are atheist, Buddhist, Catholic Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Islamic, Native American totem faith, Protestant Christian, and Wiccan, but I don't fear any religion. It's also because I went to a graduate school with a large foreign student population and interacted daily will all sorts of people with different religions for years. I've spoken of matters of faith with priests, rabbis, imams, and ministers. I quite literally trust my life to Muslims - my physicians happen to be Muslim; their education and experience are much more important.

I have never seen any of the hate which is supposedly so pervasive in these "un-American" faiths. That's because it's not so pervasive after all.

People may be going to Hell, but it is not the business of any government to tell them what they may or may not believe. It is the right of every person to have the faith of their choosing, and we must respect that right.

People may hate other religions and the believers thereof and attempt to suppress those other religions; they have the right to feel that way, but that's un-Conservative, wrong, and I will always say so.