>>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.
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>>And you are also judging sharia with statements that it's "backward" and infringes on human rights.
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>Generally, yes. Throwing us back into the 1800 or so, where women did have less rights than men.
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>>And I also thought sharia was rejected in Canada.
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>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.
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>Walter,

I'm not sure it's that simple though. If male muslims want Sharia, female muslims would have little to say about it. If they are living in a family where the males are the lawgivers, they are unlikely to act or vote contrary to their 'instructions', if the husband allows her to vote at all, that is. In that sort of environment, I'm not sure you'd get a truly honest count for and against.

It was rejected here in Ontario because it was felt that part of the population should not be subject to laws different (in some cases contrary) to the laws under which everyone else lives.

Personally, a society with two sets of laws (or who knows, if Sharia caught on, how many others would want their own set of laws) is not a society in which I'd want to live. Fairness means everyone living subject to the same legal system, having the same rights and opportunities, and the same responsibilities.

Regardless of the implimentation of Sharia, there is no question that women would become second class citizens. Due to the culture of the family, I'm forced to think that many of them are anyway.