Occasionally, I read something, hidden away from the headlines, that make me wonder at its popular knowledge. Is it something new or something that requires a reminder.
Today, I noticed a story about a local government complaint that some Muslim religious marriages are not being recorded in the civil register. It seems that these marriages simply become known as common-law marriages. As such, in fact, they are only regarded by the community as a marriage under Islamic law, that accepts underage marriage, which may be simply dissolved by the husband stating verbally his wish for a divorce.
This becomes a problem, legally, when government agencies do not accept Sharia law … and further causes such laws of sexual abuse to slowly infiltrate, illegally, into our culture.
Should we be concerned?
Not to mention, polygamy, of course.
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ReplyDeleteIt is an insidious attempt to sneak Sharia law into our democratic rules based system. It can be argued that common law marriage is similar. The caveat is that a woman living common law with a man (and vice versa) attains rights after a period of time equivalent to a registered marriage. Assuming this applies to a Muslim marriage then there is no problem. The difficulties for both situations is to inform the parties of their rights under the common law of Ontario.
ReplyDeleteThe really sad aspect of this comment is that some readers may believe it is not their responsibility to think about it, notwithstanding the inevitability of Sharia laws and Islamic government. I wonder why they ignore the future of their own grandchildren, et al.
Meanwhile, I feel some responsibility to highlight the situation, hoping that there is a very remote chance that, perhaps, the Qur'an will be rewritten eventually.
May I also mention that I have no heirs, and my soul will be elsewhere.