Belonging to law : Religious difference, secularism, and the conditions of civic inclusion working paper

L.)" and" a" number" of" other" organizations" expressed" powerful" critiques" of" the" use" of" religious" law" to" settle" civil" disputes." " The" media" fed" a" general" alarm," with" one" newspaper" declaring" “Muslim" barbarians" [were]" knocking" on" the" gates" of"Ontario”." (Bakht" 2006," 70)" " As" Razak" recounts," newspapers" warned" Canadians" that," with" this" proposal," “they"were" [...] S.’s" niqab" denied" the" accused" proper" cross[examination" of" the" complainant," interfered" with" the" assessment" of" her" credibility," and" thereby" eroded" the" ability" of" the" accused" to" make" full" answer" and" defence." " The" Crown" and," ultimately," counsel" for" N. S." strongly" objected," citing" her" Charter" rights" to" religious"freedom"as"a"shield"against"such"an"order.""T [...] S."moved"to"quash"this"order"and"the"issue"moved"up"through"the" system"to"the"Ontario"Court"of"Appeal"and,"ultimately,"to"the"Supreme"Court" of"Canada,"where"a"majority"of"the"court"held"that"the"proper"approach"was," indeed,"to"balance"the"competing"rights"at"issue,"but"sent"the"matter"back"to" be" reconsidered" in" light" of" the" Court’s" guidance." " On" re[examination," the" preliminary" inq [...] S.*case"put" it," the"courts"and" the" trial" process"are"a"understood"as"central"to"“the"complex"web"of"institutions,"rules" and"values"embraced"by"the"notion"of"the"rule"of"law,"of"a"state"and"a"society" living"under"and"within"the"law.”"5" Cast"in"this"light,"the"debate"about"wearing"the"niqab"while"testifying" says" something" important" about" the" symbolic" function" of" law" in" the" manage [...] S.*case,"who"first"ruled"on"the" issue," unwittingly" offered" an" evocative" signal" of" the" role" of" submission" to" legal"ritual" in"the"definition"of"civic" identity." " In"deciding"that"N.