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2005-01-16 Great White North

Canada's Muslims split over bid to introduce Islamic law courts

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Posted by tipper 2005-01-16 12:51:25 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "When you come to Canada, you are a human being with full rights.

heh, heh! Bin Laden was right to be afraid, very afraid. In the Western countries - women make up half the vote. Divided and conquered.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-16 3:50:37 AM|| 2005-01-16 3:50:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Sharia is a loaded word; it includes all of the civil, criminal and other institutions associated with the Islamic legal system," he said. "No-one in his right mind would propose implementing this system of laws in Canada."

-- this simple statement, coming as it does from a muslim cleric, tells you all you need to know

Posted by mhw 2005-01-16 8:32:07 AM|| 2005-01-16 8:32:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Dudly-Do-Right becames Mohomed-Do-Sharia

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-16 8:51:15 AM|| 2005-01-16 8:51:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 but..but..but.. its only a camels nose. Surely we can accomodate that!

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-01-16 9:46:59 AM|| 2005-01-16 9:46:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Time to absorb the Western Provinces and build a wall to seal out the rest (Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes).

Posted by RWV 2005-01-16 12:10:39 PM|| 2005-01-16 12:10:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 We have no room to laugh at the Canadian government's foolishness. If we listen real hard, we can hear the wails in the public square coming out of mosques located in New Jersey and Michigan as we speak. Sharia law coming to our states soon...

Posted by 2xstandard 2005-01-16 12:51:07 PM|| 2005-01-16 12:51:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't know were you live,2X(must be in Clali or Mass.).But in my neck of the woods it will be a cold day in hell before Sharia comes here.

Posted by raptor 2005-01-16 1:51:18 PM|| 2005-01-16 1:51:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Ironically, the Moslems are using Catholic and Rabbinical Law precedents to get their Sharia. There are discreet allowances for very unobtrusive practice of both of these throughout the US. For example, in many US cities, there are guideposts that indicate travel boundaries for orthodox Jews on Sabbath, so as to allow them to go some distance for important things, without violating their laws. These guideposts are practically invisible to anyone not familiar with their purpose. Kosher Law is also very prominent with hundreds of organizations placing their seal on all sorts of consumer food products. For its part, Catholic Law crops up in all sorts of ways, such as in annulment of marriage (pro forma, but still must be approved by the Vatican itself), and in Diocesian property issues (all property is owned by the respective Bishop, overlapping with secular ownerships in a complex tangle.) Other religions also have their practices which the courts really don't want to get involved with (think the current spat among the Episcopalians). So, in the final analysis, the Moslems need a "revised, western" edition of Sharia, which is fully compatible with western values, yet fills what amounts to a legal gap for that religion. It can be done, it just needs a lot of work. And the very idea a codified, rational written Sharia Law, sanctioned by a secular non-Moslem government scares the piss out of the radicals. Every loathsome practice they embrace would lose its sanction.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-01-16 3:39:39 PM|| 2005-01-16 3:39:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 anymoose, I think you are adding a heaping dish of wishful thinking on top apple scented cow-pies.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-16 3:50:24 PM|| 2005-01-16 3:50:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 mmmmmm...pie

Posted by Homer Simpson 2005-01-16 3:54:12 PM|| 2005-01-16 3:54:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Who would have thunk - I just came across an article that says sharia law is supported by the B'nai B'rith. Where's common sense hiding these days?

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/527926.html
TORONTO - In a move that is angering Jewish feminists, B'nai B'rith Canada is supporting the demands of conservative Muslims in the province of Ontario who wish to have the right to use private arbitration based on Islamic law for the resolution of their marital, custody and inheritance disputes.

Posted by 2xstandard 2005-01-16 9:36:06 PM|| 2005-01-16 9:36:06 PM|| Front Page Top

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