Islamic Institute For Civil Justice IICJ: Sunni Muslim Community

Julie Macfarlane Dept: By Dr. Julie Macfarlane, according to Vancouver Sun. In 2003, when a small organization, the Toronto-based Islamic Institute for Civil Justice IICJ , applied for standing under the Arbitration Act of Ontario to provide officially recognized family arbitration services to the local Sunni Muslim community, it set off a firestorm of angry debate. While the application itself was a modest request to have official recognition under Ontario law of voluntary arbitrations on family matters that were already offered to the province's Sunni Muslims by the IICJ and by some local imams, particularly around marriage and divorce, public response was swift and intense and islamic Divorce in North America Oxford University Press, 321 pages, $65 (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.