SEP. 13, 2005: SHARIA AVERTED So here’s some good news: the Canadian province of Ontario has abandoned the idea of a sharia court. The idea originated, bizarrely enough, with a feminist lawyer named Marion Boyd. Boyd, a former provincial attorney general, is perhaps best known in Canada for her advocacy work on behalf of battered women. Since sharia permits (and in some versions, actively encourages) husbands to club their wives for disobedience, you might think that she would have proved resistant to the call of multiculturalism. But no. Asked last year to consider the question for the province, Boyd produced...