Canada's stupidly allowing sharia law within its borders has predictably put justice out of the reach of Muslim women there.
Homa Arjomand knows what it's like to live under sharia law. In Iran, she endured it until someone tipped her off that she was about to be arrested and imprisoned. Many of her activist friends had already been tried and executed. She, her husband and two small children (the youngest was barely one) escaped on a gruelling trip by horseback through the mountains. That was in 1989.
Today, she lives in a suburb northeast of Toronto. Her job is helping immigrant Muslim women in distress. And now she is battling the arrival of sharia law in Canada.
"We must separate religion from the state," she says emotionally. "We're living in Canada. We want Canadian secular law."
She gets that nice 7th Century religious law instead. Maybe she should escape on horseback one more time.