Competing Courts

Jesse Walker | 4.29.2004 9:48 AM

Muslims in Ontario can now voluntarily settle disputes in private sharia courts. There is local precedent for such faith-based arbitration: Rabbi Reuven Tradburks tells UPI that the Jewish equivalent—the Beis Din—has existed in Ontario "for as long as Jews have been here, hundreds of years."

Books Editor Jesse Walker is the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.