>Yes I did read the whole thing and quoted only points that apply to all variations of sharia as far as I understood the article. Did you read the whole thing, after all it's your reference link.

>And you are also judging sharia with statements that it's "backward" and infringes on human rights.

Generally, yes. Throwing us back into the 1800 or so, where women did have less rights than men.

>And I also thought sharia was rejected in Canada.

It is about its proposed implementation as stated in the article. If muslim up here want to have a sharia implemented for their community that does affect non-moslim and does not violate and/or undermine the general law (including human rights), it gives you a total other picture than when Holland is to accept the sharia currently implemented in Iran. IOW, you have to know its implementation rather than just yell. and of course we are all good at yelling without knowing what it means.

Walter,