Religion & Law

Islamic Con Job
Interesting story from the Toronto Star Muslim leader calls sharia loans a `con job' Why is it a con job? "A controversial study looking at Islamic banking by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp...

Nigerian with 86 wives arrested under Sharia laws
The AP reports:  . . . Muslim principles forbid men to take more than four wives. Around half of Nigeria’s 140 million people are Muslim, and Niger was one of twelve majority-Muslim states that adopted the Islamic Sharia criminal code after Nigeria returned to civilian rule in 1999...

Islamic law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.
That’s the first sentence of this article from the online version of the London Times. It reports in part: The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence...

Great Britain Allows Establishment of Sharia Courts in England Arbitration laws used to circumvent British Courts- Similar loophole exists in Kentucky Law.
The Courts in Great Britain have allowed use of their Arbitration law to allow Muslim groups to impose Sharia law on their citizens.   This loophole allows anyone signing an agreement to submit their disputes to arbitration to be bound by the ruling of the Muslim arbitrator...

Muslim Arbitration Tribunal sets up 5 Sharia courts in UK.
New world, new England. See "Sharia Courts in the UK", by Temple Law prof Jaya Ramji-Nogales, at IntLawGrrls. Excerpt: "The Sharia courts have been classified as arbitration tribunals under the same provision of the 1996 Arbitration Act used by Jewish Beth Din courts, which have resolved civil cases in Britain for over 100 years...

Revealed: UKs first official sharia courts
Revealed: UK?s first official sharia courtsISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence...

Collection Agencies and Creditors
How to deal and stop the harassment

Mr. Brown Instant Coffee
Possible Melamine Contamination Prompts Canadian Agency to Issue Warning

Canadian Government
allegedly used Canadian soldier as test subjects for nuclear explosion radiation exposure.

California Talent Agency, Be Productions, Faces Federal Class Action
California Talent Agency, Be Productions, Faces Federal Class Action

Procrit
Associated with Death in Stroke Study

Religious Discrimination
NMSU to pay $165,000 in Muslim discrimination settlement.

Xigris
Study Prompts FDA Safety Review