Great News
Quebec's National Assembly has unanimously adopted a resolution opposing the establishment of Islamic tribunals in Quebec and Canada, thereby making themselves the first province to explicitly ban sharia law. Copies of the resolution are being sent to all the other legislatures across the country. Break out the balloons and the party hats! This is great news.
Sharia is a code of conduct based on the practise of misogyny, and the qur'an. It has no place here in a country that has moved forward with the times, and is currently firmly ensconced in the 21st century. Trying to bring sharia law here is trying to take a country that lives in the present and drag it backward into the past. The women of Canada should not tolerate its introduction. Neither should the men. Quebec's premier, Jean Charest, says "It's important to send a very clear message that there is one rule of law in Quebec ...we are very much an inclusive society, but a society that will govern itself by one set of rules."
In Saudi Arabia, for instance, sharia law forbids a woman to drive a car. Try telling the women who currently hold licenses that they have to give up the freedom and the independence those licenses represent.
In Pakistan, sharia law declares that a woman who has been raped can be flogged unless she can produce four male witnesses to the rape. You don't even have to ask to know that there would, of course, be no equivalent for any man wanting to charge another with having committed an attack on his person. This is idiocy beyond comprehension.
Any woman who lives here in Canada has a right to share equally in the dignity and equality enshrined in our Charter of Rights. To bring sharia law here would be to strip the Canadian women of Islam of that right, and that would be an incredibly dangerous first step. Allow any one of our citizens to be treated with less than the full rights dictated by our present laws, and you have set a precedent.
Once it begins, where might it end?
Sharia is a code of conduct based on the practise of misogyny, and the qur'an. It has no place here in a country that has moved forward with the times, and is currently firmly ensconced in the 21st century. Trying to bring sharia law here is trying to take a country that lives in the present and drag it backward into the past. The women of Canada should not tolerate its introduction. Neither should the men. Quebec's premier, Jean Charest, says "It's important to send a very clear message that there is one rule of law in Quebec ...we are very much an inclusive society, but a society that will govern itself by one set of rules."
In Saudi Arabia, for instance, sharia law forbids a woman to drive a car. Try telling the women who currently hold licenses that they have to give up the freedom and the independence those licenses represent.
In Pakistan, sharia law declares that a woman who has been raped can be flogged unless she can produce four male witnesses to the rape. You don't even have to ask to know that there would, of course, be no equivalent for any man wanting to charge another with having committed an attack on his person. This is idiocy beyond comprehension.
Any woman who lives here in Canada has a right to share equally in the dignity and equality enshrined in our Charter of Rights. To bring sharia law here would be to strip the Canadian women of Islam of that right, and that would be an incredibly dangerous first step. Allow any one of our citizens to be treated with less than the full rights dictated by our present laws, and you have set a precedent.
Once it begins, where might it end?
3 Comments:
I am surprised it even was considered for a vote, Congrats on voting the damn thing down! Womans Suffrage still exists in our day and age and that is a crime and a shame.
Who would have proposed the adoption of this law? Sounds like somebody is being paid off.
#1. This is Canada. Religion is not a part of our government.
#2. Some islamic moron(s) may try to continue enforcing their idiotic ways on their women in Canada. So sending an early message is probably a good thing.
#3. If you're islamic and you like to live in an ass-backwards country, why'd you come to Canada?
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