Why can't Muslims have own courts?
Going too far with multiculturalism

Letter, May 26.

Ken Stagg writes that having a sharia tribunal is proof of multiculturalism run amok. He asks: Should we have laws for every ethnic community in Canada?

First, sharia is a religious code not an ethnic anomaly. Very few religions have the jurisprudence as Islam does — the Jewish people being a prime exception. They have their religious tribunals; why cannot Muslims?

Are we less Canadian because we feel our personal and family issues should be settled by the values of our religion and not the values of others? Is it Canadian to cast aside your religion, ethnicity, language preference etc. just because it does not fit the European value paradigm?

Mubin Shaikh, Toronto