[BRIEF NOTE] Thoughts on Marion Boyd's Report

[rfmcdonald]

Yule Heibel's Post Studio, via angel_80, responding to Marion Boyd's recent report recommending the implementation of a limited version of shari'a law in Ontario:

I hope that progressive Muslims in Ontario and elsewhere in Canada, along with voices from the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, can convince the Ontario government to ditch Boyd's recommendations. [Tarek] Fatah [of the Muslim Canadian Congress] noted that this will immediately enter the rightwing Islamist propaganda mill: “Tomorrow in Tehran, in Jeddah, in Pakistan, in Kabul, in Sudan, every newspaper will say that Sharia has been approved by Canada,” predicted Fatah.

I find it frightening that equal rights and representation before the law could, in a modern democracy, be undermined in favour of medieval, misogynist "religious" exemptions. What happened? Women really are the niggers of the world, aren't they... Some men make her "paint her face and dance", but some others make her put bags over her head and body. Same f*ng difference.

I've blogrolled the Post Studio, incidentally.