...born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad

Counting their unhatched chickens: Travel back in time with me to 2004, when Wahida Valiante, then, as now, Mo Elmasry’s Numero Dos (as "bilingual" Bambi Fauxbama might say) at the CIC, expressed her hopes for what the coming of sharia courts in Ontario would mean for the rest of the country (my bolds):

The Jewish community has its rabbinical courts called Beit Din's.

People of the First Nations have their sentencing circles.

Now Canada's Muslim community is moving ahead with plans to structure Sharia tribunals where family disagreements and inheritance, business and divorce issues will be judged on Islamic law based on the Koran.

Under the proposal, the tribunals will not deal with criminal matters and will have to respect all provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Cases that go before the Muslim arbitrators must have the voluntary assent of all parties involved.

While the plan for Sharia courts in Canada is well underway in Ontario with the establishment of the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice to train arbitrators in Sharia and Canadian civil law, the move is now taking root in British Columbia.

The B.C. Muslim Association, which represents 56,000 B.C. Muslims plans to discuss Sharia courts for the province at a board meeting in two weeks.

"It seems like a good idea and we plan to discuss and study it at our board's next meeting," president Daud Ismail told The Asian Pacific Post.

He said the association will likely form a special committee to oversee the plan before approaching B.C.'s Attorney General.

Sikander Shah, the B.C. regional director of the Canadian Islamic Congress said the issue is on the agenda for the June board meeting.

Wahida Valiante national vice-chair of the Canadian Islamic Congress said she expects to see Islamic courts settling family, matrimonial and civil disputes across Canada over the next few years...

Ontario’s putting the brakes on the sharia march must have come as a real blow to the CICers. Is it any wonder they’ve turned to Canada’s thought cops ‘n’ courts to try to get the sharia-spreading project back on track?

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