Heather Mallick
Heather Mallick blames U.S. Republicans and the Canadian Right for the tendency to atomize and privatize Canadian law; I rather think the blame lies with the multiculturalist ethos. But she makes some excellent points about how the idea of Sharia "mediation" threatens women. From the Globe and Mail, with thanks to Mentat:
The news that Ontario will permit civil disputes such as divorce to be mediated under sharia or Islamic law is about the best idea since female foot-binding. It's not just, but it is restful. A woman with tiny claw-like feet isn't getting off the couch to hire a lawyer. And it's cheap: No court hearings, no going halfsies on the family home, no squabbles over custody, no fighting over wills.For sharia law is already written. By a deity. And if you're a Muslim woman who makes the choice of going to Canadian courts rather than signing away her rights under sharia, you're offending one of the bigger gods, as I understand Islam.
This is interesting, not just because it's vile, but because it's part of a worldwide move toward privatizing everything, including the legal system. Ooooh, now we can go law-shopping. ...
The National Post likes sharia "mediation," even mocking The Globe and Mail for thinking it a front-page story. If the Post likes something that makes Muslims look different and bad, and it harms women, trust me, it's positively cyanotic. Save time, Muslim women, and bite the capsule now.
Journalist Paula Todd, on TVOntario, was on to the story early. She mapped it out for Ontarians, and I will trace her map for you so this sub-legal disease doesn't spread cross-country.
She interviewed Alia Hogben of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, who pointed out that sharia law isn't monolithic, but is applied differently throughout the Islamic world (which is where stoning women to death comes in).
But it has one common thread: patriarchy. In a will, a wife might get a quarter of the estate at the most. She cannot divorce her husband, but he can divorce her. She would get three months to a year of alimony, maximum. Note "alimony," as opposed to child support, because she won't get the kids if the husband wants them.
Opposite her sat Ali Hindy, a local imam. No, not David Bowie's wife, but a Muslim god's deputy, in this case a grey-bearded man exuding utter certainty and self-satisfaction. Ms. Hogben looked distressed to be defying both man and god. I applaud her bravery in daring to disagree.
"The man with a hammer interprets every problem as a nail," American scholar Stephen Holmes writes in the current London Review of Books. And in this case, Canadian law is what moderates the hammer.
The imam said that if the woman were unhappy, she could go to the Canadian courts. "You can take more." Pause. "You are disobeying god."
So a timid woman in a new country, who has never disobeyed a man or her god in her life, is going to find the money (where?) to defy her entire culture and ask for a divorce, half the assets, shared child custody and support, and a place to live while she takes out student loans to get a degree and, years later, a job. Add a burqa to the equation, leaving her unemployable, and she's done and dusted.
If you believe sharia mediation is plausible, then John Ashcroft's secretly an opera singer with three breasts. He's sleeping with Andrea Bocelli, and their love child, Rocco Ray Ashcroft, is being raised by Noam Chomsky in a rooming house in Bruges.
Have I now made it clear that allowing vulnerable women to be bullied into destitution and despair in a Liberal province is an absurd and fantastical idea that will end in tears? And blood, doubtless female?
Timing shouldn't matter when it comes to principle, but it does here. Speaking as a paranoid "my coffee smells of bitter almonds" type who just made an off-the-record-or-else speech at a Vancouver journalism conference and was later told that a man from the Seattle branch of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was sitting in the front row, I can only say this: Canada, where I was born to immigrants, is as friendly a country to foreigners as can be found. But multiculturalism to the extent of cutting new Canadians off from the legal mainstream is like hacking off your own leg.
It doesn't grow back.
Bob:
Ms. Mallick in her over the top and politically slanted commentary in the Globe and Mail gave her fellow Ontarians a wake up call to the dangers of permissive multicuturalism that would countenance Sha'ria in Ontario under provincial private dispute mediation laws.
When this matter first surfaced earlier this year, a number of us were concerned about the adoption of similar communal dispute rules here in the US. It's easy enough for the American Muslim community to insinuate Sharia via petitioning the American Arbitration Association to set up special panels to hear and adjudicate such communal disputes. As Ms. Mallick stated in her Globe and Mail piece, without the left liberal biases, that privitizing such domestic communal communal disputes, puts Muslim women in Canada in danger of deprivation of legal rights, that the Canadians and we here in the US take as customary. Indeed, as she infers, Ontario private dispute resoluton rules that permit settlement via Sharia for the Muslim community might lead in an absurd sense to 'approval" of say, honor killings of wives and daughters, even if deemed a capital crime, murder under both Canadian Provincial and US State laws. That is what motivated private discussions between leaders in both Canadian Jewish and Maronite communities in March of this year and frankly should concern us here in the US about a "back door" attempt by extremist elements in the US muslim commuinity, say CAIR, to press for AAA adoption of Sharia. Scary thought that is.
Excellent article. Strange how someone with very different political views can come to the same conclusion as a right winger. Unlike most leftists she is open and honest about the contradictions of multiculturalism.
Wow, I've never agreed with Mallick on anything. Strange how this would bring both of us together on one topic. Well-written, too.
Agreed, Interested, she's obviously not fooled by her own side's infatuation with multiculturalism.
MULTICULTURISM DOESNT WORK NOT NOW NOT EVER. THERE IS NO PLACE IN THIS WORLD TO GET AWAY FROM THESE MUSLEMS, I AM AN IRISH CANADIAN, AND IN BEAUTIFUL IRELAND THESE PEOPLE HAVE SPREAD THERE EVIL TENTICLES . HOW HAS THIS HAPPINED ALL OVER THE WORLD THY ARE HATED EVERYWHERE THEY GO BUT THEY DONT SEEM TO CARE ITS ALMOST AS IT IS A CAREFULLY PLANNED MIGRATION,SLOWLY,SLOWLY AND QUIETLY, AND WHEN THE WORLD WOKE UP NOW ITS WAY TO LATE. THIS IS A HORRIFIC FUTURE. MAY GOD BLESS US ALL AND MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
When does "voluntary" become mandatory. Yes, "backdoor" is a good way of putting it. We already see American jurists relying on international law as a basis for their decisions. This precedent alone is frightening. It doesn't take much of a leap to understand how Sharia could easlly become part of not only our social fabric, but our legal system using international law as "an excuse." Then voluntary would eventually become mandatory, and, as we are seeing in Nigeria, and other such places, wherever Sharia goes, the rights of non-Muslims, Muslims with "different interpretations," and all woemn are trampled upon. That is ALWAYS the fruit of of Islamization of any society. Read history for further proof. See the big picture folks and take action.
Wow! Yvette wasn't kidding about Islam in Ireland. Check this out:
http://www.islaminireland.com/
How about this? Islam in New Zealand:
http://www.nzmuslim.net/
For some tips and programs for internet security and privacy, look here:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=69
If you have any information regarding this yourself, please add it to this thread. It helps keep ex-Muslims safe from exposure on the net.
Or how about Islam in South Africa?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0110/p13s1-woaf.html
It's amazing what Billions of dollars in Saudi oil money can do all over the world!
To Mentat:
Thank you for posting these Islamic sites (Ireland, etc.). Seeing these infiltrations gives some concrete sense to how much this plague is spreading.
Cecil
Canada should take a hard look at the legal nightmares in Malaysia where the Islamic court for matters pertaining to Muslim family, marriage and property runs independently of the civil courts. NGOs like Sisters in Islam have noted that it is ironical that Muslim women in Malaysia have less rights under the Islamic courts than the minority non-Muslim women under the civil courts. The legal nightmares, predominantly for non-Muslims, occurs when one spouse of a non-Muslim couple converts to Islam. The Islamic courts will rule that their children legally go to the Muslim spouse and the children who are minors are also legally declared as Muslim and be raised as such even if they have been attending Sunday schools or Hindu or Buddhist classes all their lives. The freedom of religion is taken away from the children and when they become adults they cannot legally will any part of their estate to non-Muslims. If any Muslim will any part of their estate to any non-Muslim, it will be legally confiscated by the Islamic authorities and placed into a wakf (Islamic trust). This "non-Muslims must not inherit Muslim property" laws is similar to the mindset of Hamas whose raison d'etre is to completely seize back entire Palestine from the non-Muslims.
Whilst we are witnessing worlwide dhimitued in the west, we are actually ignoring the western press and major TV stations that are activists not apologists in their shameful reports.
This a FAR WORSE problem than mere appeasement of Jihadism.
The BBC is such an organ of propaganda and i can only quote from Melanies superb article in this respect.
...'What all this shows is that the BBC has become far more than a redoubt of Guardian and Independent values; far more than a journalistic disgrace; far more than betrayal of the concept of public service broadcasting. It has become nothing short of a national menace, an enemy of this country’s interests and a fifth column in time of war. There is no doubt in my mind that a major reason why otherwise sane and sensible Britons have totally lost touch with reality, believe the US and Israel are the source of all evil while people who play football with the heads of Jews are the victims of injustice, and are on the way to pressurising the British government to pull out of Iraq, denounce America and thus hand victory to religious fascism, is because of the influence of the BBC, our secular church. And because of its immense global prestige and the fact that it is trusted to tell the truth, the BBC is now helping poison the discourse of the world.' .....
Yes we are now witnessing the media acting in TREASONABLE towards western civilisation.
The Daily mirror fiasco is yet another example.
These fifth columnist need to be seriously challenged and exposed.
Shut up DAVO... as you can see by the article we are commenting on, liberals can be made to understand the truth about Islam and Jihad.
All this blather about "fifth columns" and "TREASON" is just that. Why don't you try to think up a way to wake more liberals up, instead of trying to shut them up?
Furthermore, as for the "lib'rul mainstream media," follow the money: why are the right-wing media empires of Faux News, Rupert Murdoch, Sun Myung Moon, and John Scaife so beholden to the "palestinian" cause and the plight of "oppressed Muslims" everywhere? Maybe some Saudi investment is involved, you think?
Speaking of petrobucks, did you see in the news where YOUR president sent Powell and Condi-lesbo to confer with "palestinian" leaders this week? Hoo-boy... Taiwan is more likely to be around in ten years than Israel, and Taiwan doesn't even have a ghost of a chance.
I was pleasantly surprised to read Mallick's article in Saturday's Globe. In the past she has usually been venomously left wing.
It's about time that the mainstream media in Canada picked up on this story and stopped worrying about being called "racist" for questioning muslim political moves.
Richard (Toronto, Canada)
Keithjoy,
when liberals wake up they become republicans.
keith JOY
and pray prince mishkin how to you propose liberals are going to be made to see the truthes of ISLAMOFASCISM?
BY presenting them with MORE dhimitued?
you are proposing to fight what i call the didth columnists by exactly the same methods they use to excuse the excesses of islamist extremists.
Whereas as few liberals such as Chris Hutchins have seen the light there are many more who will always refuse to see it.
Even when Canada is hit by Islamic Terrorism theyb will still be blaming America for 911 and ,god forbid, any Canadian horrors.
LEnin called the self loathing let wingers "Useful Idiots".
That's a term the Islamofascist can surely understand.
By the time they see the folly of their actions, the knives will be hovreing againsts their throats.
http://www.harunyahya.com
Excellent site