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McGuinty insists women safe if shariah allowed in Ontario
2005-09-07
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty promises the rights of women will not be compromised if the province allows Muslims to use shariah — Islamic law — to settle civil and marital disputes. A report by former NDP attorney-general Marion Boyd recommends that Ontario allow Muslims to establish sharia-based tribunals similar to Jewish and Catholic arbitration bodies. Mr. McGuinty said the Liberal government is reviewing Ms. Boyd's report and will produce its own recommendations "at some point in time."

He says whatever the province does, "it will be in keeping with the values of Ontarians and Canadians." When asked what he meant by that, McGuinty said people will just have to be patient.

Marches to protest against the possibility of allowing shariah in Ontario are planned this week for cities around the world, including Toronto, Paris, London, Stockholm and DÃŒsseldorf, Germany. Opponents contend that the push for shariah is part of an extremist Islamic agenda, and they say it discriminates against women in basic matters such as divorce, inheritance rights and child custody.
Posted by:Fred

#12  Ya know, Mrs. Davis, I have a feeling the "deal" never changed. We just weren't told the whole story.

If Canada allows sharia to be enforced -- especially in regards to family issues -- and passes some sort of "religious defamation" law, like the one in Australia, then we may as well move Canada to the "hostile" column.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2005-09-07 21:54  

#11  I have no objection to sharia being used for civil disputes, if both parties voluntarily consent and no laws are broken, but marital disputes? No Way! I'm with RC, when did this deal change?
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2005-09-07 19:17  

#10  "the rights of women will not be compromised if the province allows Muslims to use shariah"

A safe comment since women have no rights under Sharia.
Posted by: DoDo   2005-09-07 19:14  

#9  Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty promises the rights of women will not be compromised if the province allows Muslims to use shariah

That's because all brain-enabled women will get the hell out of Ontario.
Posted by: Captain America   2005-09-07 18:25  

#8  In other news, Ontario insists McGinty put the crack pipe down.
Posted by: Gir   2005-09-07 13:10  

#7  I fancy the disorder an irreversible degenerative brain disorder that, unchecked, ultimately ends in high mortality rates preceeded by long periods of profound suffering, usually by others not actually afflicted with the disorder as it hollows out the brains of those infected like a dried squash leaving them immune to all forms of human suffering outside of irrational abstractions and myth.
Posted by: MunkarKat   2005-09-07 12:30  

#6  I think that leftists have a fungus in their brain that tells them that the ways of foreigners are by definition better than the ways of the people they grew up with. That is, he just *knows* that Sharia is better than Canadian law, because it's *not* Canadian law.

You see the effects of this fungus in US leftists a lot. They knew communism and fascism was better than democracy, and that eastern religions are better than western religions, and just everything that foreigners do is just generally better than anything the US does.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-09-07 11:56  

#5  It makes perfect sense to me. Ask any good imam, and he'll tell you sharia laws are there to protect women from whacked-out hormone-crazed men.
Posted by: Xbalanke   2005-09-07 11:41  

#4  He's joking, surely.
Posted by: MunkarKat   2005-09-07 10:16  

#3  Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty promises the rights of women will not be compromised if the province allows Muslims to use shariah — Islamic law — to settle civil and marital disputes.

Waitaminnit.

When this farce started, it was touted as being for civil disputes -- just as a contract stipulates any disagreements are to be settled by arbitration, a contract could stipulate it's to be settled by sharia (snort) law.

When did marital disputes get added to the purview?

I've never been in favor of this, but shouldn't this be setting off big, red sirens for people who don't have a beef with it?
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2005-09-07 09:45  

#2  It's about time the left woke up to the fact that islamists are anti-women.
Posted by: Spot   2005-09-07 08:21  

#1  Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty promises the rights of women will not be compromised if the province allows Muslims to use shariah — Islamic law — to settle civil and marital disputes.

Chickens not endangered by letting foxes into hen house.
Posted by: gromgoru   2005-09-07 04:08  

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