Posted on 12/20/2004 11:51:43 AM PST by Pikamax
Use of Sharia law by Muslims okay, report says
CANADIAN PRESS
Ontario Muslims should have the same rights as Roman Catholics and Jews in the province to seek arbitration based on religious law for family disputes and inheritance cases, a report by former attorney general Marion Boyd concludes.
"The Arbitration Act should continue to allow disputes to be arbitrated using religious law," Boyd recommends in her report to the Ontario government.
Boyd was appointed to study the issue after the Islamic Institute for Civil Justice requested the right to offer religious-based arbitrations for family disputes based on Sharia law.
The proposal ran into opposition from women's groups, legal organizations and the Muslim Canadian Congress, who all warned that the 1,400-year-old Sharia law does not view women as equal.
But Boyd determined that Ontario should continue to allow religious-based arbitrations and mediations, including Sharia law, and recommended strengthening protections by requiring both parties to first seek independent legal advice.
However, another of her 46 recommendations would allow people seeking mediation to waive independent legal advice.
Boyd also recommends that mediators screen each party separately about issues of power imbalance and domestic violence before they enter into an arbitration agreement.
She also said the government should work with mediators and other professional organizations to develop a standard screening process for domestic violence.
A spokesman said Attorney General Michael Bryant would not be available today to comment on the report, but added the government would study Boyd's findings "very closely
Wherever Shira law goes, suppression soon follows. That isn't liberalism....that's the truth.
Apology accepted. Carry on soldier (however lame that carrying on may be).
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What does "lame" have to do with it???
Or do you enjoy pickin' on the handicapped too???
Enjoy your paranoid persecutory fantasies.
Motion seconded!
The Motion is carried...we begin SLAMMING the door on BOTH borders immediately....and there will be a "temporary" shortage of private fencing, as we will be employing MANY, MANY fencing companies to work BOTH borders, and then On To ALASKA!
I have had enough! If the dumba$$ blue-City pultroons want to go to Canuckistan, I say GO, and we extend an Invitation to the decent, hard-working Western Canadian (and the minority in the East) provinces to flee the oncoming Dhimmitude, and come and be PRODUCTIVE here...we will have LOTS of room as the Blue-City Morons will be leaving tons of room behind!
P.S., bring your guns...we LOVE them here!
BobL: "So you've been trolling for a long time here, that doesn't make you any less professional in your method."
"What was that about name-calling again?:
I don't consider that name-calling, just being descriptive. This is a conservative site, and the vast majority are on my side on this issue. You should see the names that I've been called when I give my position on toll roads (I HATE them).
They go together like oil and water. They do not mix.
Our laws give rights, Shira laws take rights.
Ahhhhh, name calling.....according to you....I win.
OK...so when the "actions of a few" do not produce ANY outcry against those actions that are supposedly anathema to their "religion", like say, beheadings, slaughter, and suicide bombings...what does that say about the REST of the "believers".
Go practice al-tiqyaa somewhere else...and take your namby-pamby hand-wringing with you. There is a CULTURAL WAR going on...and "moral equivalency" is no longer the word of the day! Their beliefs are a DANGER to HUMANITY, and a direct threat to Western Values...but I guess you will be "tolerant" in your slave collar and dhimmi chains...
You've hit the nail on the head.
Also since Sharia law denies women anything close to equal rights why would any intelligence western government give Sharia law license to practice, to compete against western law? Why would Muslim immigrate to the west and then seek to bring there destructive, poverty ridden ways with them? Make no sense, except that maybe the masters have followed the sheep to the west and now seek to reclaim their flock? And Canada is helping? Fools.
Why does the world kowtow so much to muslims? I find it tough to believe that the Canadians would be so overeager to bend over backwards for the Jews, Hindus, Catholics, Buddhists etc...if given the opportunity.
Good question. I am just glad we have the 2nd amendment in case thigns get out of hand here regarding that.
Bingo!!!!
Well we know at least one Senator who recognizes Scottish Law, and one US Supreme Court which recognizes the supremacy of European legal precedent over the our own Constitution. That alone ought to be enough to start scaring the bejeesus our of the rest of us comfortably sitting around our keyboards!
Any curtsy to Sharia Law outside the Middle East ought to have every one of us looking around us for something a lot deadlier and with a good deal more range than a stick.
Your policy is to blame all members of a group for the actions of a few members.
Only if there is clear and unambiguous repeated instances of being deaf, dumb and blind when atrocities are being committed and no one "saw" anything. So the choices are bigotted or stupid? Where do you classify yourself?
By the way, in what universe would you characterize 85% as "a few"?
We always keep our second amendment rights clean and oiled, and within reach.
Enforceable by whom? Who are you kidding? A Muslim woman has NO rights and no self determination. She is at the mercy of the men in her family and kept their by their religion.
Hey now. For us Alaskans your border scenarion poses a not-to-happy prospect. Canada is our only land link to the "lower 48" you know.
This sharia stuff is especially scary to us here in Alaska. Here's my two cents. Canada's population is maybe a tenth of the US. Hence Islamics carry a lot more clout than they do in the US. The incremental process in socialist Canadian politics , i.e., Islamic subversion, has now begun.
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