Sharia Law In Canada?

Jason Moon from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan writes:

First things first - ALL religions are inherently bad. Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, I don't care. They all have the same goal - subjugating our human will. And they all boil down to the same thing - a human (like you and me) is telling us what God wants. Sometimes the human wears a turban. Sometimes he wears a dress and a pointy hat. But they're ALL human, and they have no more idea of what God wants than you or me or the neighbour's cat. But that doesn't stop them from bilking the poor and ignorant out of their money and causing division and hatred over most of recorded history.

Now, on to Islam. Currently, it's the least tolerant religion and therefore should be the most feared. It should DEFINITELY not be afforded special protections (papers afraid to publish the Muhammad cartoons, laws and regulations bent in a Sharia direction, etc.) Christianity was a murderous terrible cult for long periods of it's history (Inquisitions, Crusades), but these days it's mostly benign, inflicting most of it's harm merely on our intellect and not so much on our bodies anymore. The Church was reined in by secular authority, and this is what can't happen in Islamic countries, because there exists no division between religion and the law. Go to Saudi Arabia or Syria and experience an Inquisition that never ends. But in Canada and the US and anywhere else that believes in separation of church and state, we don't have to bend to Islamic will. Freedom OF religion also means freedom FROM religion.

There are those who would like to whittle away at these freedoms of ours and make Canada more conducive to Sharia law, and we must guard against this. People like Syed Soharwardy, president of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, who wrote in 2004, "Sharia cannot be customized for specific countries. These universal, divine laws are for all people of all countries for all times. I am one of the founding members of the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice. The mandate of the institute is to resolve disputes within existing Canadian laws by using the principles of conflict resolution from Islamic Law, or sharia."

No thank you, Mr. Soharwardy. Canadians wouldn't like Sharia law. For one thing, we enjoy beer (illegal). We let our women dress how they like (illegal). And we're not fond of stoning girls for the crime of being raped or of fathers killing their teenage daughters for not dressing like a pepper mill.

To summarize, I don't subscribe to any religion, so I'm not coming at Islam from any religious angle. I believe we need to be aware of it's tendencies (even among it's moderates) to insinuate itself into our laws and customs. We must defend against this so that we can keep Canada free from Sharia insanity.