Mainstream Canadian feminism saw state judges as protecting Muslim women from their own communities

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Sharing this faith in secularism, the National Association of Women and the Law elaborated that if faith-based arbitration were allowed, ‘freely chosen’ arbitrators will be the new judges of women, imposing their own principles as the law of the land. While arbitrators chosen by Muslim communities could not be trusted, judges were deemed a better option for women. In view of the likelihood that judges would be of European origin, NAWL proposed cultural-sensitivity training to augment the latter’s capacity to protect Muslim women from their cultures and communities. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 355

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• ADDENDUM: Directly parallels the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article’s pattern of who gets to define and police women’s bodies and dress, here extended to who gets to police Muslim women’s legal lives.