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*Bites inside of lip* yah.....The feminist in me feels my hackles rise when I hear or read the word Sharia ......but I have had some very interetsing conversations in recent years with a couple of islamic feminists and they have exposed to me some of my own instant prejudice and assumptions on sharia and Islam in general. My guess is that sharia in Canada will simply take the form of a divorce settlement, grievance hearing type thing. ...Given how specific each faith seems to be on such matters it stands to reason that a community might want a specific body to deal with them.
Now....I know that patriarchal systems carryw iththem the potential for abuse but.....I also think that the attitude of various Islamic schools of thought towards their sisters is one of the things that even righteous and forward thinking people can grasp onto as a reason to dislike Moslems or (mainly) Arabic cultures. I think we are all very willing to hear bad stuff about moslems ....this is such a beaut though.....because we get to be disdainful of moslems but under the aegis of womens rights.
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