The Ontario Legislature returned to work today - and one of the pieces of law set to pass within the next three weeks is Bill 27, the "Family Statute Law amendment act."
What is unique about this law is that it is being
introduced for one purpose only: to prevent Muslims from participating in a
successful arbitration process that sanctions arbitration of custodial and
marital disputes by religious tribunals. Toronto Star article
although Christians and Jews have quietly and
successfully run religion-based arbitration tribuals for a decade, they will
now lose this legal right in the name of "fairness" as Ontario cannot
legally exclude one religious group and allow others to continue. Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty had previously been prepared to recognize "parts" of Muslim Sharia law, but did a 180 degree turn in the face of massive public opposition: much of which came from Muslim women. alia Hogben, executive director of the Canadian Council
of Muslim Women summed it up by saying, "We don't want to be ghettoized. We're Canadian women." The problem, of course, is the brutal and barbaric nature
of Muslim Sharia law as widely practiced - which includes such provisions as...
Wife Hitting as Religiously Sanctioned Family Discipline
The Muslim view of "Human Rights" as illustrated by the actual decisions of Sharia Law Tribunals throughout the Muslim world is hardly a model that should be incorporated into Canadian jurisprudence in any form.
For supporters of Sharia in Western societies, the devil IS in the details of how Sharia is really practiced when implemented. It must be a tough sell when the system you want to implement here includes rape of daughters and wives as punishment for a man's lawbreaking.
Yes, you read that correctly - Muslim Sharia Tribunals still call for rape of women family members as punishment many times a year. Sure, many Muslim scholars will argue that this is not "correct" Sharia - but the truth of any value system is not illustrated in what people say, but in the actions of the people who profess to share that value system.
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