Sunday, September 11, 2005 - Last updated 7:51 p.m. PT

Ontario premier rejects Shariah law

By ROB GILLIES
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

TORONTO -- The premier of Ontario said Sunday that he won't let his
province become the first Western government to allow the use of Islamic
law to settle family disputes and that he will move to ban all religious
arbitration.

Ontario's provincial government has been reviewing a report recommending 
that Shariah, or Islamic law, be allowed to settle family disputes like 
divorce and had said it would soon make a decision.

"There will be no Shariah law in Ontario. There will be no religious 
arbitration in Ontario. There will be one law for all Ontarians," Premier 
Dalton McGuinty told The Canadian Press.

The proposal to let Ontario residents use Islamic law for settling family
disputes drew protests Thursday in Canada and at some of its diplomatic 
sites in Europe.

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Full article at Seattle Post-Intelligencer
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/
apcanada_story.asp?category=1101&slug=Canada%20Shariah


Cheers, Steve..

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