Posted on 08/13/2005 2:35:15 AM PDT by F14 Pilot
When Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was stabbed to death last year, the assailant pinned a note to the dead body claiming Ayaan Hirsi Ali would be next.
But she isn't cowering.
Instead, the Dutch filmmaker is in Toronto, speaking out against the implementation of traditional Islamic law, Sharia, in Canada.
"I'm here because the rights of women and the rights of Muslim women are threatened," she said.
Supporters of Sharia say Muslims have the right to live as their religion dictates. They want Canada to permit Sharia arbitration in civil disputes.
In a recent report, Marion Boyd, a former provincial cabinet minister who works as a mediator, recommended that religious law maintain a role in family arbitration as long as safeguards are built in to protect women and children.
Ontario's Attorney-General, Michael Bryant, plans to respond in the fall.
Opponents of Sharia, many of whom are Muslim women who came to Canada to escape repressive regimes, denounce the law. They say it treats women like second-class citizens.
Alia Hogben, president of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, has called Sharia family arbitration "an abuse of multiculturalism."
Her views are echoed by Hirsi Ali.
Last year, she and Van Gogh made the film, Submission, depicting the abuse of women in Islamic cultures.
Dutch Muslims criticized the film as disgraceful and even blasphemous.
Last November, Van Gogh was murdered by an Islamic extremist. The assailant, Mohammed Bouyeri, threatened to kill Hisri Ali as well.
He was sentenced to life in prison.
Hisri Ali went into hiding but has since returned to public life.
"It's telling that I, as a woman brought up in Islam, need security now. I need protection to fight for my rights."
Ever defiant, Hisri Ali has vowed to make a sequel to Submissions.
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Pinned a note?
How about impailed a knife into the body holding the note, the savages
Won't fly in Canada, but how about a 24 hour anti Islam TV channel?
So Canada will potentially restrict the rights of women in the name of secular humanism? Interesting turn of events!
Sheesh. Meant to say "in the name of religion" instead of secular humanism.
Where is NOW over the issues of the treatment of women by the religon of peace? How can anyone in the western world contemplate allowing sharia,the code of a stone age religon to be implemented in their country?
A few hand choppings, stonings, and decapitations might just straighten things out in Canada.
Exactly!
I was thinking it is the best tactic to force Muslims leave western countries!
Uh oh, "One fatwa, hold the mayo, comin' up!"
Thanks for the ping F14Pilot.
Burka Ping
That is a disaster for Canada!
There are few Muslim women fighting the law in Canada as far as I know.
One of them is an Iranian woman living in Toronto!
Yeah, nice, just let it be in the family. Muslim women, prepare to be treated like second-class citizens in a once-free nation.
The contradictions implicit in the Trudeaupian 'vision' are becoming visible even to the most delusional of Establishment lickspittles.
However, nobody's going to say nothing - they're yellow b*stards - that's why they're leftists.
This is prefect for Canada. Their provinces are always trying to break away and form their own countries. Canada can just split up and form a Islamic State in the process.
Great art work.
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