Posted on 12/22/2004 7:36:45 AM PST by NorthOf45
Sharia has no place here
Muslim law is tyranny against women, Peter Worthington says. Many Muslims agree
By PETER WORTHINGTON
For the Toronto Sun
December 22, 2004
Outrageous as it is, former NDP attorney-general Marion Boyd wants sharia law introduced into Ontario to resolve Muslim domestic disputes.
It's hard to think of anything with a greater potential for misery and heartache to women than sharia law. Yet it is a step closer to becoming reality in Ontario.
Ms Boyd was appointed by the McGuinty government to relate sharia law to the 1991 arbitration act that Ms Boyd was involved in legislating as a member of the NDP government. Talk of conflict of interest!
Catholics and Jews can arbitrate domestic disputes within their faiths, and Ms Boyd apparently sees no fundamental difference between them and sharia law for Muslims.
In fact, there is a hell of a lot of difference.
Catholics and Jews don't discriminate against women the way sharia law does by violating fundamental rights enshrined in our Constitution for equal treatment.
Under some interpretations of sharia, a woman who is raped is guilty of tempting the man. Showing an ankle is tantamount to enticement. A Muslim husband has the right -- duty even -- to beat his wife if she's disobedient. A Muslim who converts to Christianity technically could face a death sentence.
Apologists insist this is mostly symbolic, but who's to say?
In its extreme form, as with the Taliban of Afghanistan, on select Fridays in Kabul women who were deemed guilty of violating sharia law -- like leaving their houses, or showing their faces -- were taken to the football stadium to be humiliated.
Some were beaten, some were shot. That won't happen here, but it's sharia law and the pressure on women will be acute.
Choice claimed
Ms Boyd says Muslim women will have a choice -- be adjudicated by sharia law, or Ontario law, and have a choice of adjudicators .
In theory, maybe, but in practice -- look at how many abused women haven't the strength to defy their abusers.
Ms Boyd may be emotionally wedded to the arbitration act she helped devise, but why would she ignore those who actually know and have had experience with sharia law?
Like the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, which pleaded with her to reject sharia and stick with Canadian law?
Fanatics would rejoice
Why would she not listen to Tarak Fatah, a founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, who passionately and convincingly argues that sharia should never be implanted in Canada.
Many have come here to escape the tyranny of sharia.
I've spoken to Fatah, and he's adamant that Ontario should not allow sharia to gain a foothold here.
He's not so concerned about abuses here (there will be, but that's human nature and inevitable) but is concerned that Ontario's decision would be trumpeted throughout the Islamic world as vindication and acceptance of sharia.
"It will be presented as Canada adopting sharia law -- not just a segment of it, but all of it. And it will be used by militants as propaganda to expand its extreme principles."
I hadn't thought of that --- and it's doubtful Marion Boyd has.
Attorney-General Michael Bryant and his boss, gaffe-prone Premier Dalton McGuinty, will make the final decision.
It will indeed be foolish if they don't reject the recommendation.
Sharia law has no place in civilized society, no matter how benignly it is depicted. It dates back to the 14th century and does not treat the sexes equally. Period.
In Ontario it may not be used to order women stoned to death for behaviour it tolerates in men, but it is a matter of degree.
There is no need for it in Canada. It is not religious freedom, it is religious oppression.
Listen to the Council of Muslim Women and rational Muslims like Tarak Fatah, and not the Canadian Islamic Congress, which sees itself as the sole interpreter of sharia law.
how can they deny one religion when they seem to allow it for others?
they opened that pandora's box years ago.
Another Muslim "Islamophobe" brave enough to speak out against Islamic gender and religious apartheid?
It is Muslims who have most to fear from Islamists
By Charles Moore (Daily Telegraph, UK)
...And that is the worst of it. The word "Islamophobia" is thrown at people who criticise some aspects of current Islamic thought. But "phobia" means fear, and I suspect that it is moderate Muslims who are, in that sense, Islamophobic, frightened of what the Islamists are turning their faith into. They cannot find the courage and the words to get to grips with the huge problem that confronts Islam in the modern world...
>>>Catholics and Jews can arbitrate domestic disputes within their faiths, and Ms Boyd apparently sees no fundamental difference between them and sharia law for Muslims.<<<<
What faith is Ms. Boyd?
Islam is not so much a religion as it is a social/political/economic way of life.
LOL
Marion Boyd advocates wife beating and the subjugation of women. Islam and tolerance work together to trump any notion of women's rights.
I'm aware of that; I was wondering if 'Ms Boyd' would be able to make this comparison from EXPERIENCE. :)
Sharia is not a religion. What religion provides for the stoning to death of ones wife OR for killing ones daughter for leaving the house unescourted? Sharia nor islam are religions. They ARE demonic cults and have no place in the western hemisphere.
I wonder if they're going to start stoning and humiliating Muslim women on Friday nights at the hockey game during the first intermission, rather than watching the pee wee players. Could make for great entertainment! /sarcasm
The Ontario Liberal government will live to regret this sick, immoral decision. This could be the last straw that will finally break the Liberal's backs.
The Canadians have lost their collective mind.
NDP = commie socialist pinko hippie losers
See this post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1306558/posts
Oh Canada. So sad to see that once great nation in ruins.
Sorry. Post #6.
Sorry. Post #6.
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