Sharia Law in Canada

[Skunks]

Well, that's the point. The article doesn't really say that they're forced to use Shari'a instead of Canadian law, just that they have the choice. (Or, if it does, I didn't notice)

Also, doesn't most every country have a history of mistreating women? I know the United States does.

Re: sexual mutilation.

It comes from this open-to-intereptatation hadith:

<a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/abudawud/041.sat.html">Book 41</a>, Number 5251:

Narrated Umm Atiyyah al-Ansariyyah:

A woman used to perform circumcision in Medina. The Prophet (pbuh) said to her: Do not cut severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband.

<a href="http://answering-islam.org.uk/Index/C/circumcision.html">Some discussion on the subject.</a>