Zach LarkinsSHARIAH LAW II
Some time ago, I wrote an article entitled ‘Shariah Law'. It involved a woman and her child who were stabbed by her husband. He is doing some time and she wants to divorce him and return to Lebanon. She was reluctant to return because she would be under Shariah law that might not recognize her divorce. This was in court transcripts and seeing as how the couple was from Lebanon, I thought they might know what they were talking about.
I got taken to task by a Muslim who said I knew nothing of Shariah law. I don't claim to be an expert, I never did, so I did a bit of research. I found that I was right in my beliefs and my Muslim detractor didn't know what he was talking about.
Our province outlawed Shariah law over the objections of some rabid Muslims who wanted to use it to punish other Muslims according to the fundamental scriptures of the Quar'an. Unfortunately, though this law has passed, it has not yet been enacted. Why seems to be anyone's guess.
Women's groups, both Muslim and non-Muslim, protested that shariah law is often oppressive towards women and they worried that in the power imbalance that often occurs when religion is allowed to dictate law, the rights of women and children would be trampled. My Muslim detractor waxed on about how women are revered under, as he put it, Islamic law, but failed to realize that the church and state are not separate under Islamic law. Thus if Shariah law prevails, the church, the country is bound to it, the government. It doesn't take a genius to see that the mullahs rule Islam, not any elected official. Government takes a back seat to the church, or mosque in this case. But why would women object to a law that holds them in such high esteem?
Shariah law is a 1,400-year-old set of Islamic laws covering legal and family issues, and is used to settle civil disputes, including family law settlements. Even moderate Muslims fear the power of the imams they had come to Canada to avoid would follow them to this country. Strange behaviour for someone so worshipped as my Muslim detractor would have you believe.
A spokesman for the Muslim Canadian Congress, (MCC) a group that opposes shariah law, said he is surprised and alarmed that the law hasn't been enacted. "All over the Muslim world, people want to get away from it, (shariah law)" said Tarek Fatah. Gee, why would that be? Maybe my Muslim friend should talk to Fatah to learn what he does not yet know or recognize. "The nurturing and the appeasement of Islamists by all political parties has come to the stage where people can come around and demand that these laws be enacted and I was hoping that Premier Dalton McGuinty's and Attorney General Michael Bryant's brave decision would have ended the issue, but it alarms me there is still some chance of these people doing what they do," Fatah said. It seems even some Muslims are getting tired of the thin skinned radicals among them who are offended by Christian or Jewish symbols at every turn.
"It is one thing for parents to inculcate religious beliefs and values in their children. It's quite another for them to live by separate rules. In a modern society, all children should be afforded the same protection of the law. You can't have some kids governed by a court of law while other children have their fates dictated by faith-based rules that date to the Dark Ages -- whether they be Catholic, Jewish, fundamentalist Christian or Muslim. And in faiths dominated by priests, rabbis and imams, women are often intimidated into making deals they may later regret." writes Christina Blizzard.
And she is absolutely right.
Sources: Christina Blizzard - Shariah Law Still Not Dead - The Toronto Sun
Youranter - Shariah Law - Opinionatedranter
I got taken to task by a Muslim who said I knew nothing of Shariah law. I don't claim to be an expert, I never did, so I did a bit of research. I found that I was right in my beliefs and my Muslim detractor didn't know what he was talking about.
Women's groups, both Muslim and non-Muslim, protested that shariah law is often oppressive towards women and they worried that in the power imbalance that often occurs when religion is allowed to dictate law, the rights of women and children would be trampled. My Muslim detractor waxed on about how women are revered under, as he put it, Islamic law, but failed to realize that the church and state are not separate under Islamic law. Thus if Shariah law prevails, the church, the country is bound to it, the government. It doesn't take a genius to see that the mullahs rule Islam, not any elected official. Government takes a back seat to the church, or mosque in this case. But why would women object to a law that holds them in such high esteem?
Shariah law is a 1,400-year-old set of Islamic laws covering legal and family issues, and is used to settle civil disputes, including family law settlements. Even moderate Muslims fear the power of the imams they had come to Canada to avoid would follow them to this country. Strange behaviour for someone so worshipped as my Muslim detractor would have you believe.
"It is one thing for parents to inculcate religious beliefs and values in their children. It's quite another for them to live by separate rules. In a modern society, all children should be afforded the same protection of the law. You can't have some kids governed by a court of law while other children have their fates dictated by faith-based rules that date to the Dark Ages -- whether they be Catholic, Jewish, fundamentalist Christian or Muslim. And in faiths dominated by priests, rabbis and imams, women are often intimidated into making deals they may later regret." writes Christina Blizzard.
And she is absolutely right.
Sources: Christina Blizzard - Shariah Law Still Not Dead - The Toronto Sun
Youranter - Shariah Law - Opinionatedranter
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