Canada

Canada: When the Koran Speaks, Will Canadian Law Bend?

A group called the Canadian Society of Muslims is testing boundaries by establishing the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice to apply the legal code called Shariah, based on the Koran, to settle disputes over property, inheritance, marriage and divorce.

Canada: Sharia law will be part of new review

Former NDP attorney-general Marion Boyd has been appointed to review procedures that would include the use of Islamic law to settle family disputes, the Ontario government has announced.

Canada: Another Woman Silenced: Vancouver Imam Attacks Muslim Candidate for Canadian Parliament

Attack on Syed, a graduate student in Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia and a veteran peace and justice, civil rights and anti-violence activist.

Canada: Islamic law proposal to undergo review

The Ontario government will review plans to use Islamic law to settle family disputes before the practice is set to begin in the province.

Canada: Protest rises over Islamic law in Ontario

When Britain's Muslim community requested the right to use Islamic law to settle family disputes, the government's refusal was unequivocal.

Canada: Ontario sharia tribunals assailed

Women fighting use of Islamic law.

Canada: Position statement by the Canadian Council of Muslim Women on the proposed implementation of sections of Muslim law (Sharia) in Canada

Some Canadian Muslims are proposing the implementation of sections of Sharia [Muslim law] to settle family disputes outside the court system through arbitration committees/tribunals.

Canada: Canadian Muslims will get sharia courts to settle disputes

Canada is embarking on an unusual judicial experiment that will allow members of its Muslim community to submit to the teachings of the Koran to resolve a variety of civil legal disputes, ranging from divorces to business conflicts.

Canada: The Muslim Veil in North America: Issues and Debates

WLUML networker Homa Hoodfar contributes to this book which contains research and commentary on the conditions, issues, debates, and discourse on the hijab in North America and specifically in Canada.

Canada: Canada prepares to enforce Islamic law

Judges will give legal sanction to disputes between Muslims.