Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Can tolerant Canada tolerate sharia? / Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug 2004

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0810/p01s03-woam.html?s=hns

  • Susan Bourette
    "Muslims here, supported by a 1991 provincial law, have been using sharia to mediate legal disputes, such as divorce and child custody. But in the spring, after a Muslim group proposed creating a formalized tribunal, what had been going on quietly for more than a decade became front-page fodder and led to a government review of the law"