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
I don't mean to sound snippy here, but are you freakin' kidding me?
The end result between the enforcement of Sharia over or under Canadian law may be the same for a woman, but it is a degradation of the Canadian law that the citizens seem to be too dense to recognize.
Thank you for that excellent list. Not that we tend to forget mass murder, etc., but it's best to see horror in its entirety.
It's a problem because women in Muslim society are just ahead of the family goat or maybe right behind said goat. Women will not report abuse, molestation, or any other infringement of their rights. They'll be scared to death. They know they'll get worse than the shaft in Sharia courts.
You can have shira law...I want not part of it.
Maybe arbitration under Sharia sounds nice, but women will see it as another nail in the coffin of their civil liberties. They will suffer in silence, and that's criminal.
Not should be NO...sorry
Oh, but Modernappeaser says she will have recourse to the Canadian courts after they put a bullet through her head.
Appeasers, they just don't get it.
That's kind of the point- nobody is required to be bound by any provisions of Sharia law in Canada or the US.
Individual vs. Collective
Freedom vs. Slavery
Life vs. Death
We keep going in circles. There are no Sharia courts in Canada. The only thing this new legislation has done is allow private parties to agree to have their CIVIL disputes resolved by an arbitrator (who is not a government official, BTW, he is a private person) under the provisions of Sharia law, so long as no Canadian law or public policy is violated.
Murder is still quite illegal in Canada. You're arguing a strawman.
Melting pot vs. Multiculturalism
Sorry about delay. This thing shut off, I had to come back. Give me a sec. I'll post my reply on your latest post to me.
The "whether Muslim or non-Muslim" is the catch. Islam/Sharia puts women back into the dark ages of pitiful inequality. Marion Boyd has opened up a can of worms.
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http://pz.rawa.org/rawa/murder-w.htm
here's your shira law.
I have never seen any of the hate which is supposedly so pervasive in these "un-American" faiths. That's because it's not so pervasive after all.
People may be going to Hell, but it is not the business of any government to tell them what they may or may not believe. It is the right of every person to have the faith of their choosing, and we must respect that right.
People may hate other religions and the believers thereof and attempt to suppress those other religions; they have the right to feel that way, but that's un-Conservative, wrong, and I will always say so.
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