The title of my post must be a joke, you're thinking. But you would be wrong. The joke is on us, as our whining liberal former Attorney General has decided that Sharia Law should be used in Ontario's Muslim community as a method of arbitration in family and community disputes.

"Arbitration is a private action because there is no state compulsion to arbitrate," former Ontario Attorney General Marion Boyd wrote in the report, which was published on the government's Web site. "Muslims in Ontario retain, as do all Ontarians, the right to choose the traditional justice system or any alternative to it for the resolution of their disputes."

Except, I would think, for Muslim women.

I know that other religious communities use church-led arbitration in cases of divorce, abuse, custody, and small claims. For example, in very strict Jewish Orthodox communities, a woman may not be given a divorce without the Rabbi's consent. If the husband is abusive, the Rabbi almost automatically grants her request, no questions asked. If children are involved, and there is no abuse present, the Rabbi decides what is best for the kids. In issues of property, the Rabbi oversees discussion of who gets what, when a marriage or a business partnership disolves.

But to the Muslims, women are property. Children are property. And some asshat Muslim cleric will be more than happy to tell some put-upon husband to "liquidate his assets." In the Muslim community, a woman who asks for a divorce can be beaten. If she has had sex outside the marriage, she can be killed. If her husband is in debt to his business partner, she can be raped in lieu of payment.

But that's okay here in Canada. We are, after all, a very tolerant society. As long as you are not a white Christian. We can't abide by that.