By Alyssa A. Lappen
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 20, 2005

When Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced on Sunday September 11 that Ontario would outlaw all forms of religious arbitration, including Islamic law or Shari’a, Western civilization won a great victory. For that success, Canada and the U.S. owe their thanks to Iranian exile Homa Arjomand, director of the International Campaign Against Sharia Court (ICASC).

Arjomand sprang into action in December 2003, when McGuinty appointed former Ontario Attorney General Marion Boyd to review the province’s Arbitration Act. Since 1991, this law allowed Ontario courts to pass family and business legal disputes on to religious bodies. McGuinty was responding to the Islamic Institute for Civil Justice (IICJ), which applied to arbitrate civil cases in the Muslim community according to Shari’a.

From then until December 2004, when Boyd proposed instituting Shari’a law in Muslim family arbitrations, Arjomand devoted every leisure moment to defeating this measure. “We can stop it,” she said last year, despite her fear that Pakistani, Iranian, and Saudi Arabian governments backed the IICJ push for Shari’a rule in Ontario’s family courts. Continue reading “Ontario: A Shari’a-Free Zone” →

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