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  • Shariah for Ontario Muslims?

    10/09/2004 2:20:21 PM PDT · by quidnunc · 28 replies · 826+ views
    The London Free Press ^ | October 9, 2004 | Salim Mansur
    Former NDP attorney general Marion Boyd is reviewing a bid to introduce Islamic faith-based law to settle Muslim family legal disputes. But Salim Mansur warns women and children would be vulnerable under such religion-founded rulings. The controversy surrounding the use of Shariah, or Islamic law in settling Muslim family disputes under the 1991 Arbitration Act in Ontario will not likely cease, regardless of which way the provincial Liberal government moves on the matter. Premier Dalton McGuinty has appointed Marion Boyd, the former attorney general in Bob Rae's NDP government, to review the act and advise Queen's Park on how to...