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"Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958DIEspammersDIE@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Here in Ontario (Canada), there was a request by some Muslim groups to
>> legalize "Shariah" (sp?), which is a set of Muslim marriage/relationship
>> laws that supposedly give the male all the power. I don't know which
>> countries these particular Muslim groups came from, but thankfully our
>> otherwise inept premier (after some deliberation!) refused to allow it.[/color]
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>But is that really a problem for non-Muslims? Or were they trying to make
>*everyone* abide by that law?
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>Natalie
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Well Natalie...on one hand perhaps we 'should' allow emigrants
to keep their customs but OTOH what will our children take from
seeing (in this case) women being treated as less than equals?
even cruelly in some cases?...won't it (again in some cases) be
so prevalent that it'll seem natural for our kids?...it seems to
me that if I were to move to some country with very different
customs that I'd 'want' to 'fit in'. But, that's just not their
custom I guess.

Remember the Muslim woman in Florida (I think) who applied for a
driver's licence but wouldn't allow them to photograph her
face?...WooHoo...the fur flew there...

If we allow this deviation what happens when some people from
'very' different cultural backgrounds try to introduce some
customs that we 'cannot live with'?
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-Gord.
(use gordon in email)