Can tolerant Canada tolerate sharia?
At last: someone points out that the outcry against Sharia in Canada is not based on the all-purpose smear word “Islamophobia,” because “other people are clearly dissatisfied” — i.e., Muslims themselves. We reported here some time ago about Alia Hogben and her Canadian Muslim women’s group that opposes Sharia there. From the Christian Science Monitor, with thanks to Fanabba: TORONTO – Their burnished domes rise high above the adjacent pizza parlors and drab strip malls, like beacons of sanctity in this largely secular country. But the peaceful facades of the dozens of mosques in Canada’s most populous province belie the public rancor that has been stirred up over the use of sharia, or Islamic law, by Ontario’s Muslims. Given the fact that there is no actual separation between moderate from radical Muslims in the mosques, “peaceful facades” is a well-chosen phrase, albeit unintentionally so. Muslims here, supported by a 1991 provincial law, have been using sharia to mediate legal dispu
