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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).

I don't see a problem. It's basically communities solving disputes themselves without taking up the resources of the public court system.

You need to read up more about Islam. When they get a inch, they demand another inch. Then they claim they are under oppression if they are denied to implement their entire Sharia law. If they want to move to a western country, they should adopt western laws.

"I don't see a problem. It's basically communities solving disputes themselves"

No, there is a much bigger problem. You need to put yourself in the place of these Muslim women. If you go with Sharia in a divorce case, you assured to lose everything, kids, alimony, everything. If they go with Canadian law, you would get your share (many would say more than your share, but that's for another thread).

Yes, you can opt out of Sharia Law. But what happens next, your family and entire community disowns you. You may even find yourself the victim of an "honor killing". In the end, you have no choice but to abide by Sharia Law.

That's the problem. Once you set up a parallel legal system, be it "voluntary" or not, you're basically enslaving the Muslim women and giving them no hope of freedom. In effect, they can no longer use the Canadian system, which would have treated them as something more than cattle. If everyone had to live under the Canadian system, the men would simply lose their dominance.

If anything is going to bring Islam into 19th century (you have to start somewhere) in the West, it will be their women rejecting the scam, as they see Western women given true freedom.

The Canadians have done the Muslim men a huge favor and closed off that escape path. They will soon see the results.

Why are moslems immigrating to western countries, if they want to impose shar'ia law on their populations instead of adapting to their new environments?

What's the point?

Do you think maybe it's to spread islam, and this is just one thin edge of the wedge?

I do.

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.