Posted on 05/26/2005 2:34:48 PM PDT by youngtory
Quebec rejects introduction of Sharia law into legal system in the province LES PERREAUX
QUEBEC (CP) - While Ontario considers a move to allow Islamic law to help settle some family disputes, Quebec sent a clear message Thursday it will not permit Muslim tribunals.
Quebec lawmakers from all parties voted unanimously in the legislature to reject the use of Islamic tribunals in the legal system. The vote was a pre-emptive strike to stop a growing movement among some Muslims to have the religion to play a role in family law.
The member of the Quebec Liberal government who led the debate Thursday took the unusual step of criticizing a report by former Ontario attorney general Marion Boyd that recommended opening the door to Islamic family law.
Liberal backbencher Fatima Houda-Pepin said any move to allow Muslim family law would lead to similar demands in criminal and civil legal areas.
"The application of Sharia in Canada is part of a strategy to isolate the Muslim community so it will submit to an archaic vision of Islam," said Houda-Pepin, the sponsor of the motion.
"These demands are being pushed by groups in the minority that are using the Charter of Rights to attack the foundation of our democratic institutions. It's a political agenda in the name of Islam."
The head of one Muslim organization was angry that Quebec is singling out one religious group.
Salam Elmenyawi of the Muslim Council of Montreal said Houda-Pepin and Quebec lawmakers are portraying the entire Muslim community as extremists.
"I'm shocked and dismayed to see the national assembly of Quebec take such a step," Elmenyawi said in an interview.
"If the Quebec government does not want faith-based arbitration, they should call it so and not specifically target Islam and Muslims. Otherwise it is very clear this is religious bigotry. To make motions against an identifiable religious community is very serious."
Houda-Pepin said her motion specifically targeted Islam because only Muslims are asking for special status in family courts.
Houda-Pepin denied that Premier Jean Charest's Liberals are putting pressure on the Ontario government, which is expected to make a decision before summer. Charest said he simply wants to send a clear message that all Quebecers are equal under the law.
"It's important to send a very clear message that there is one rule of law in Quebec," Charest told reporters.
"We are a very inclusive society, but a society that will govern itself according to one set of rules."
The debate over Sharia law surfaced in Canada two years ago when a Muslim group in Ontario proposed the arbitration of family disputes according to Islamic law.
Elmenyawi said the rules of Islam dictate that a Muslim woman who wants to remain true to her faith can divorce only through the intervention of religious imams or judges.
Houda-Pepin said the implementation of Islamic law takes different forms in every country in the Muslim world. She listed a litany of horrors that have taken place against women in the name of Sharia law, from the whipping of Pakistani rape victims who fail to prove their case to the stoning of Sudanese women accused of adultery.
Who would have though that there is some sanity remaining in that place.
Wow!
That is good news!
Unfortunately, news of this sort usually upsets the poor Muslims and eventually prompts them to send one of their family members out with a bomb vest to avenge the "wrongs" inflicted upon them.
Hello, hello! Calling all feminists! Do you want laws based on a system where women are treated as property? The silence is deafening, dearies.
They may be French, but they're not that kind of French
"move to allow Muslim family law would lead to similar demands in criminal and civil legal areas."
Coming soon to the Federal Judiciary near you... the Rats have their way.
Of course, I should know, I live there.
errr
IF "the Rats have their way."
Wonders never cease....
***Salam Elmenyawi of the Muslim Council of Montreal said Houda-Pepin and Quebec lawmakers are portraying the entire Muslim community as extremists. ***
If you're not an extremist, Elmenyawi, then you'd be agreeing that Sharia law should NOT be allowed. If you believe in Sharia law, then you ARE an extremist.
Exactly, it's shameful that there is an incredible silence on the part of feminist groups.
I know because I grew up with the kids of the guys that moved to CFB Comox from CFB Bagoteville...When they still had a fighter wing on the West Coast
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=comox+bc&spn=0.151749,0.290451&t=k&hl=en
Yes, they're Frenchmen with pride, rather than the self-loathing degenerates collaborating with the Islamic invasion overseas.
It may have something to do with the large injection of Irish genetics during the Potato famine
Uh, yes, they ARE that kind of French. Grew up there, and stayed until my mid twenties when I could no longer handle the language police or the taxes. (I'm fluent in three languages BTW - with post grad education...their loss.)
They name their metro (subway) stations after anti-semites like Lionel Groulx. And let's not forget the legacy of Maurice Duplesis. Or that old charmer, Jacques Parizeau who blamed the separatist loss on "ethnic money" (read Jews) - nope, they don't like anyone that isn't French. Everyone else is hated equally.
Feel free to google any of the above lest you doubt it. Or read old Mark Steyn articles - he knows, he's lived there too.
ahahahah - that only accounts for the blue eyes! My husband (American of Irish descent) still doesn't believe me that I grew up thinking they spoke French in Ireland. All the Robinsons, Johnsons and O'Briens I knew couldn't put together a stitch of English. In fact, most of them hated the English vehemently.
The best thing that came out of the French/Irish pairing was the poutine. I'm assuming that's how the cheese was introduced to the potato.
Mmmm - I do miss Lafleurs.....
Egad - do not be fooled - see post #17. It's not the Sharia, it's anything not "pure laine" (dyed in the French wool - literally)
I wonder if these quebec legislators will have to go in hiding like the Dutch ones did.
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