Sharia: DOA in Ontario

Submitted by Mark-Alan Whittle (Canada), Sep 16, 2005 at 09:17

I wanted to find out about sharia religious law for myself so I traveled to the Hamilton Mosque to pick up a copy of the Holy Qur'an to see what sharia was all about.

While waiting for the Qur'an to be produced by the General Secretary, a Muslim man, numerous male children and three Muslim women wearing veils arrived at the Mosque to pray.

The door that this man was about to enter proclaimed "Men's Entrance", signifying an inherent bias that Islam accepts. This backward notion reminded me of a drinking establishment called the Jamesway Hotel I remember from thirty or so years ago.

They had separate entrances for men and women too, but in this day and age such discrimination is not acceptable to most fair-minded Ontarian's.

As I was standing there the man asked his wife and the other women if they where going to enter the Mosque through "his" door, they refused and entered like the hired help out back, most likely because I was standing there and they were afraid to insult Allah, in front of a stranger, by entering the Mosque through a door only men are allowed to enter, according to the Qur'an.

Perhaps it is Islam, The Muslim way of life, that is inherently bias against Muslim women and the Qur'an is the instrument used to justify this aim, allowing this bias to continue in a modern age. Is that what we want for Ontario, to go back 30 years to a time when women where not considered equals?

I think not.

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