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Originally Posted by Red Ice Player
The Ontario NDP floated the idea back in 2004. To be fair, Christian and Jewish arbitrations had been allowed in family law cases up until that time. Thankfully, disallowing Sharia courts also put the kibosh on the Christian and Jewish arbitrations as well. I shudder to think what would have happened in the Shafia case if this crap had gone through.
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories...hariah_050911/
As per the previous post, this case has nothing to do with family law, but allowing Sharia would have kept these girls under their father's boot even more. Ironically, the murders may have never happened as a result. |
Yes, I'm familiar with all of this. I meant for my incredulous post to point out the absurdity of suggesting that (a) a criminal offence could ever be tried in a completely voluntary shariah adjudicatory tribunal; and (b) that Ontario could somehow change the criminal law (over which the federal Crown has exclusive jurisdiction) even if the scary muslims "took over" Ontario.
Incidentally, the family lived in Quebec, so Ontario's use of Sharia adjudicatory tribunals is irrelevant. Even if the family did live in Ontario, and even if Ontario had offered voluntary religious adjudication tribunals to families who wanted their help in settling family disputes, if there were child protection concerns, such child protection concerns would have been dealt with according to law in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, as always.
The moral of this post: "sharia law" is absolutely irrelevant to the tragic story of the Shafias.