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Great White North
Homa Arjomand's anti "Sharia in Canada" speech
2004-09-20
EFL
Make My Community Safe: End Sexual Violence
Speech delivered on Wednesday September 15, 2004-09-15 at Media Conference
By Homa Arjomand
I am pleased to be among you today....

As an activist for Women's equality in Iran; as a transitional counselor who works directly with abused women, particularly battered immigrant women; and as a founder of the Campaign against Sharia court in Canada, I have consistently opposed the involvement of religion in the justice system.

I would like to describe the situation of women and young girls living in the so called Islamic communities of Ontario. Girls are segregated from boys at a very young age in Islamic schools and are forced, at this tender age, to wear veils (Islamic Hijab) and are prohibited from participating in sports and games in playgrounds. Sexual assault is permitted by forcing girls as young as 13 into arranged marriages. Parents are given the right to deprive their daughters of education. Children are isolated from mainstream society. Polygamy (the practice of having more than one wife at the same time) is becoming the norm in these communities...
[here is her solution]
... we should not hesitate to call upon the authorities to empower battered immigrant women by removing family law from the Arbitration Act 1991.
- this would allow Sharia to be used in handling, say, disputes between merchants -
Posted by:mhw

#3  Sorry, mhw. That may be the letter of the history, but it isn't the spirit of the present.
Posted by: jules 187   2004-09-20 4:36:46 PM  

#2  I can't speak for Homa.

However, I think women are treated much better in Sharia merchatile law then in family law because of the precendents in the Hadith. The prophet's first wife, who was older than the prophet, was a wealthy merchant who basically kept him while he strutted around making comments and having his deity flip flopping on issues such as the treatment of the kafr, how many wives is allowable, the worship of the black stone, etc.
Posted by: mhw   2004-09-20 4:27:52 PM  

#1  Respectfully, does Homa Arjomand imagine that the all-encompassing mistreatment women experience in family law under sharia will not find a way to express itself in mercantile law? Are no merchants in Canada women?
Posted by: jules 187   2004-09-20 2:11:58 PM  

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