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Canada: Use of Sharia law by Muslims okay, report says
Toronto Star ^ | 12/20/04 | CANADIAN PRESS

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: canada; canuckistan; canukistan
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To: Chemist_Geek
You get back to me with that statement when they start sawing off heads again...Religion of peace my Aunt Tilly.

Wherever Shira law goes, suppression soon follows. That isn't liberalism....that's the truth.

121 posted on 12/20/2004 2:00:44 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: broadsword

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???


122 posted on 12/20/2004 2:01:47 PM PST by GeekDejure ( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!!)
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To: pbrown
Wherever Shira law goes, suppression soon follows.

Enjoy your paranoid persecutory fantasies.

123 posted on 12/20/2004 2:02:52 PM PST by Chemist_Geek ("Drill, R&D, and conserve" should be our watchwords! Energy independence for America!)
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To: broadsword
How about we just seal off BOTH borders.

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!

124 posted on 12/20/2004 2:06:07 PM PST by Itzlzha (The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote!)
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To: Modernman

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).


125 posted on 12/20/2004 2:06:58 PM PST by BobL
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To: Chemist_Geek
Shira law-vs-Constitutional law.

They go together like oil and water. They do not mix.

Our laws give rights, Shira laws take rights.

126 posted on 12/20/2004 2:07:16 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: Chemist_Geek

Ahhhhh, name calling.....according to you....I win.


127 posted on 12/20/2004 2:08:58 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: Chemist_Geek
Religious bigotry is wrongheaded and anti-Conservative. Your policy is to blame all members of a group for the actions of a few members. There's a word for that...liberalism!

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...

128 posted on 12/20/2004 2:12:49 PM PST by Itzlzha (The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote!)
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To: BobL
Once you set up a parallel legal system, be it "voluntary" or not, you're basically enslaving the Muslim women and giving them no hope of freedom.

You've hit the nail on the head.

129 posted on 12/20/2004 2:15:06 PM PST by Gritty ("Europeans need to ally with blue staters/Canadians and draw a cordon bleu around Jesusland -M Steyn)
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To: Chemist_Geek
If I am not mistaken Sharia law has it's own enforcers and it ain't the local PD. It is all fine and dandy to discuss this like everyone is going to play by our western secular government rules, but you are ignoring the well documented fact that Islam plays by it own rules. And once Sharia is established, it will not reply on Canadian law enforcement, it will enforce itself with terrible consequences for those that reject it in favor of western law, terrible consequences to remind others of the REAL law Muslims must obey.

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.

130 posted on 12/20/2004 2:16:21 PM PST by jpsb
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To: Personal Responsibility

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.

131 posted on 12/20/2004 2:23:32 PM PST by Paul_Denton
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To: jpsb
Make no sense, except that maybe the masters have followed the sheep to the west and now seek to reclaim their flock?

Bingo!!!!

132 posted on 12/20/2004 2:27:28 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: Chemist_Geek
Bigot newbie?
The name-calling is based on... ?
133 posted on 12/20/2004 2:29:21 PM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
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To: BobL
What court in this country recognizes Sharia Law. We all want to know, so we can shut that down.

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.

134 posted on 12/20/2004 2:32:39 PM PST by Gritty ("Islamic government is established by pen and gun, word and bullet, tongue and teeth-AlQaeda Manual)
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To: Chemist_Geek; All
Hi, everyone. I call myself Chemist_Geek as one of those cute little deceptive reverse-self-denigrations to hide the fact that I really am an uninformed coward and appeaser in the face of the enemy. Please do America's enemies a favor and follow my lead here as I:



Parhaps we can get all America to burn for my friends, the Islamonazis.
135 posted on 12/20/2004 2:34:43 PM PST by broadsword (When Islam creeps into a human society, oppression, misogyny and terror come hard on its heels.)
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To: Chemist_Geek
Religious bigotry is wrongheaded and anti-Conservative.
That's a matter of opinion, clearly. Both what qualifies as bigotry, and your agenda.

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"?

136 posted on 12/20/2004 2:34:46 PM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
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To: Gritty
Thank G-d for the second amendment.

We always keep our second amendment rights clean and oiled, and within reach.

137 posted on 12/20/2004 2:35:54 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: Modernman

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.


138 posted on 12/20/2004 2:36:16 PM PST by Eva
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To: Itzlzha

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.


139 posted on 12/20/2004 2:36:50 PM PST by sasportas
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To: Publius6961
The name-calling is based on... the lack of urine running down your non-shaking legs and your utter failure to cave in and appease America's enemys.

Just thought I might clarify that for you. Keep up the good work, FRiend.
140 posted on 12/20/2004 2:37:13 PM PST by broadsword (When Islam creeps into a human society, oppression, misogyny and terror come hard on its heels.)
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