Time to start stoning the Canadians.
Oh, Canada! Enjoy your dhimmitude.....Been nice knowin' ya!....BYE!....
So if a Muslim wants to commit an honor killing the arbitator would split the difference and recommend an honor ass kicking instead?
As long as they don't say "Merry Christmas" - who cares?
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.
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?
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).
A prime example of the flawed thinking that the left embraces.
Are we now going to see stonings and beheadings in Canada? I didn't think they still practiced capital punishment!
Canada has ceased to exist.
It'll never play in Peoria. Maybe in Michigan.
If a woman gets beaten by her husband under this law would it be illegal for the local hospital to treat her since she was duely punished? Might be disrespectful to the culture to toss her a band aid.
In Canada you obey Canadian Law (or chaos results). You cannot divide the country where some obey Islamic law and others obey french law and English law and American law. Canadians better stand up to their government on this, and fast.
Does not view women as equal. What is wrong with them???? I'd better visit Montreal and Ontario one more time before I need a male relative's approval and accompaniment!
And yet the Canadians as a whole, including women apparently, seem cool with it, like it's okay for them, the Muslims. Wow. As I've mentioned before, there are going to be some angry Islamo-fascists, teed off because their dhimmis are rolling over so easily. And, I wonder how many Canucks are thinking that 1400 years of tradition can't be wrong and should be honored? You know, the 'who are we to tell them what to do' thinking. Wait till the Canucks have to sit in front of a tribunal for showing their ankles or having a beer...
"Muslims should have the same rights as Roman Catholics and Jews in the province to seek arbitration based on religious law...."
Canon Law of the RCC is not in any way like Sharia. That's a bad analogy.