Keep Islamic Law Out of Canada, Quebec Politicians Urge -- Quebec Wants a New Social Contract for Immigrants -- A Slave Speaks Out

"We must rework the social contract (for immigrants) so that the people - Muslims who want to come to Quebec and who do not respect women's rights or who do not respect whatever rights may be in our Civil Code - stay in their country and not come to Quebec, because that's unacceptable."

Keep Islamic law out of Canada, Quebec politicians urge -- Minister suggests province reject; Muslim immigrants who favour system

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Learn more about Islamic law at our Web site: Montreal Gazette March 11, 2005, Mike De Souza, The Gazette

Islamic law has no place in Quebec or the rest of Canada, a provincial cabinet minister and several MNAs said yesterday.

With the Ontario government expected to decide shortly on whether to allow the Islamic legal code, known as sharia, to be applied to settle family disputes among Muslims, Liberal and Parti Quebecois MNAs warned yesterday that using sharia would lead to blatant violations of women's rights. [. . . . ]

Search: International Relations Minister Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, Liberal MNA Fatima Houda-Pepin, Salam Elmenyawi, Muslim Council of Montreal, Action democratique du Quebec

Islamic law has no place in Quebec or the rest of Canada, a provincial cabinet minister and several MNAs said yesterday.

With the Ontario government expected to decide shortly on whether to allow the Islamic legal code, known as sharia, to be applied to settle family disputes among Muslims, Liberal and Parti Quebecois MNAs warned yesterday that using sharia would lead to blatant violations of women's rights.

NB: Quebec now has "international" ministers in assymetrical Canada.

Finally, someone is speaking common sense. No country can withstand the onslaught of the intemperate sharia law groups unless Canadians insist on some ground rules; as a woman, I demand this. As a Canadian, I want this multicult nonsense which tries to preach that no culture is superior to another is utterly foolhardy, particularly to women, if we wish to return to and to maintain what used to be a decent democracy in Canada. End the funding of differences so loved by that party of gathering identifiable political group votes; instead, create democratic, tolerant Canadians, whether born here or imported.




Testimony by Beatrice Fernando, author of "In Contempt of Fate" -- Associate, American Anti-Slavery Group

The International Relations Committee of the House of Representatives -- Sub-Committee on Africa , Global Human Rights, International Operations March 9, 2005

. . . how did a nice Sri Lankan girl like me end up jumping off a balcony in Lebanon? How did I end up in slavery? Could this have been prevented? And how did I survive the leap? In my brief testimony today, I want to address those questions.

[. . . . ] 1) We need more public awareness campaigns about the dangers of trafficking. I got swept up in human trafficking because I did not understand the risks. I needed to make money, and like many people from South and Southeast Asia, I pursued work in the Middle East. I didn’t know my passport would get taken away, and I didn’t know that I wouldn’t get paid. . . .

[. . . . ] 4) We need to have even tougher monitoring of foreign countries. Every year, the State Department’s annual report on trafficking should list the amount of money each country spends on anti-trafficking efforts.

[. . . . ] And we need to hold accountable the repressive governments that are part of the problem rather than part of the solution.