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Posted on 11/25/2003 1:42:03 PM PST by veronica
The former nation of Canada seems to be moving toward the practical establishment of Islamic law. Normally Moslems are required to obey the Sharia, the law that obtains in Moslem societies, but if they live under a non-Moslem government, as hundreds of thousands of them do in Canada, they are excused from that obligation. According to the Canadian Law Times, recent changes in the Canadian Arbitration Act have radically changed all that. Here are the key passages from the article:
Syed [Mumtaz Ali, who in in 1962 became the first lawyer in Canada to swear his oath of allegiance on the Koran] explained that until recent changes in the law, Canadian Muslims have been excused from applying Shariah in their legal disputes. Arbitration was not deemed to be practical because there was no way to enforce the decisions. Syed said the laws have recently changed with amendments to the Arbitration Act.
“Now, once an arbitrator decides cases, it is final and binding. The parties can go to the local secular Canadian court asking that it be enforced. The court has no discretion in the matter.
“So, the concession given by Shariah is no longer available to us because the impracticality has been removed. In settling civil disputes, there is no choice indeed but to have an arbitration board.”
In other words, if two Canadian Moslems get into a dispute with each other, over property or marriage or a business contract, and they take the problem to a Moslem arbitrator and reach an agreement that involves Sharia, the terms of that agreement will now be overseen and imposed by Canadian courts. Canadian courts and police thus become the enforcers of Islamic law on Canadian citizens. And the obligation goes both ways. Since Moslems are required to follow Islamic law if it is practicable to do so, and since it has now become practicable to do so in Canada, that is what Canadian Moslems must do. The Moslems are required by Moslem law to seek Sharia-based solutions to their private disputes, while Canadian courts are required by Canadian law to enforce these privately reached agreements between Moslems. I would add that under this official state multiculturalism, there is no inherent reason for publicly enforced Sharia to apply only to private, arbitrated disputes. What would stop entire Moslem Canadian communites from covenanting to live under Islamic law, which would lead to Canadian courts being required to order Moslem-style sanctions, not just for violations of private contracts among Moslems, but for violations of Moslem criminal law as well?
In any case, even as the traditional cultures, religions, and moral understandings of the West are being relegated to a merely private sphere, Moslem customs and laws are becoming a part of the official and public law of the West. The Naked Public Square is turning into the Mohammedan Public Square—at the very moment that it is also turning into the Homosexual Public Square. We could imagine a Canadian judge who in the morning orders one of the “partners” in a homosexual “marriage” to pay alimony and child support to his estranged “partner,” and who in the afternoon lets off an accused Moslem rapist because his Moslem victim was unable to produce four witnesses; or orders the stoning to death of the same woman after she had had given birth to a child that had been conceived by the rape; or commands that a woman who killed in defense of her honor be executed; or orders a Moslem man, who had killed an enemy, to abstain from food as punishment for his crime.
If two Catholics agree to arbitration under Catholic Canon Law, it's the same principle.
Squawking, sniveling, running around in circles who cares alert.
If both parties agree so what?
In a world where people voluntarily agree on how to settle their disputes, without a need to drag in the goobermint at each and every single step of the way. Shocking concept, I realize.
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