Is Sharia Law part of a free society? Freedom of choice?

[dutchdemocrat]

In Ontario, Canada, they are allowing Sharia law - on a basic level. No beheadings, torture, and evil-doer-kind-of-shit. Well, like the Americans seen to enjoy these days. But it's used in certain legal situations as an option.

On the Iraq situation, the right... to use Sharia as an instrument of law has been an inevitability since the invasion.

In reality, it's going to drag Iraqi women back to the Stone Age.

Women facing setbacks under Iraq's new constitution
By MACKENZIE CARPENTER
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
August 23, 2005

- One way or the other, Sharia, or traditional Islamic law, will be a presence in Iraq's new constitution, and that means women may have fewer rights in areas of family and civil law than they did under Saddam Hussein's tyrannical regime.

That was the bottom line from experts watching as Iraq's constitutional committee continues to struggle with deadlines and defections. They also cautioned that much depends on what form of Sharia - 1,000 years' worth of Islamic law and tradition interpreted differently over the millennium by different Muslim sects - is adopted, and to what degree.

"The Iraqi constitution will absolutely have some reference to Islamic law, but will it be the sole source? The primary source? Or 'a' source? We don't know," said Isobel Coleman, director of the Project on U.S. Foreign Policy and Women at the Council on Foreign Relations.

SNIP

http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=IRAQ-WOMEN-08-23-05&cat=II