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Legislating because they can
"I'm not understanding the need for this law," Weiss said. "I'm not sure what problem we're fixing."
Cleveland said he's running the bill because of "a couple of federal cases a few years back."
Rep. Verla Insko asked Cleveland twice for an example of a case that would show a need for the bill. "I do not have any specific examples off the top of my head," Cleveland finally replied.
Senate panel debates bill that would limit sharia law
None of the senators nor Kevin A. Hall, a Columbia attorney who testified in support of the bill, were aware of any examples in South Carolina where courts upheld sharia law over the U.S. Constitution.
Mo state rep: the justification for my legislation is readily available via Google
To which a reporter followed-up: Can you cite a specific case or law they used or some specific example?
Curtman: “I don’t have the specifics with me right now but if you go to — the web address kind of escapes my mind right now. Any Google search on international law used in the state courts in the U.S. is going to turn up some cases for you.”
Missouri’s Anti-Sharia Bill Clears Its First Hurdle
“This bill will go to court and you are wasting your ink on this paper. Because this will not be upheld in court,” Nasheed said Tuesday. ”You’re wasting your time gentleman. You’re wasting your time in this body.”
Nasheed called on Curtman to provide a list of cases in which international law had been used in American courts but Curtman was unable to provide an example of such a case.
Legislation would ban Islamic law in Alabama courts
The bill’s sponsor said the measure was designed to protect future generations from erosion of the Constitution. One Birmingham area Muslim leader said the move was an effort to “demonize Islam and Muslims.”
But no one — not even Sen. Gerald Allen, who sponsored the bill — can point to examples of Muslims trying to have Islamic law recognized in Alabama courts.
the bill defines Shariah as “a form of religious law derived from two primary sources of Islamic law: The divine revelations set forth in the Qur’an and the example set by the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.”
That definition is the same, almost word for word, as wording in the Wikipedia entry on Shariah law as it appeared Thursday. Allen said the wording was drafted by Legislative staff. A source on the staff at the Legislature confirmed that the definition was in fact pulled from Wikipedia.
Allen could not readily define Shariah in an interview Thursday. “I don’t have my file in front of me,” he said. “I wish I could answer you better.”
Lawyers Speak Against Ga. Bill That Bans Use of Foreign Laws in State Courts
Jacobs, a lawyer and vice chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told the Fulton County Daily Report the bill would "ban the use of Sharia law in state courts." He acknowledged that he was not aware of any instances in Georgia where a plaintiff or defendant asked the court to apply Sharia law but believes it has happened elsewhere.
State seeks to bar foreign law from courts
In a hearing before the House State Affairs Committee, Gatto’s chief of staff Karen Sawyer said Sharia is an example of the type of transnational law that has appeared in family law, divorce and child custody cases nationally, though she knows of instances of it appearing in Alaska courts.
SD Rep. Who Authored Abortion Bill Nixes Sharia Ban
in testimony this week, proponents of a Sharia ban could not produce a single South Dakota case in which Islamic law had been a problem
Judge Blocks Oklahoma’s Ban on Using Shariah Law in Court
At a hearing last week, Scott Boughton, an assistant attorney general for the state, said the measure was not intended to infringe on anyone’s religion; it was intended to keep Oklahoma judges from looking at the legal principles of other nations and cultures in applying state and federal law. When the judge asked whether that had ever happened in Oklahoma, however, Mr. Boughton acknowledged that he did not know of an instance in which Shariah law had been invoked by the courts.
a politico-legal-military threat whose express purpose is to have it imposed world-wide, subject to a theocratic ruler called a Caliph.
Mapping Shariah Project
Islamic law is the source of the command for faithful Muslims to war against the infidel.
Presidential Candidate Herman Cain's Remarks
Cain's comments came in response to a question from a reporter for liberal-leaning Think Progress about potentially appointing a Muslim in a Cain administration.
"No, I will not," Cain responded. "And here's why. There is this creeping attempt, there is this attempt to gradually ease Sharia law and the Muslim faith into our government.
Are Americans safe from U.S. mosques?
...authorities should ask foreigners seeking entry into the U.S. if they agree with Shariah.
"If they agree, according to the Muslims who have told us this, then they should probably not even be given entry here," he said.
Are Americans safe from U.S. mosques?
"It's so easy. You can't agree with Shariah law and say that you are peaceful," Gaubatz continued. "You can't do it. Now there are Muslims in the United States who do. They say, we don't agree with Shariah law, we don't want Shariah law. But then, to the pure Muslim, they are not Muslim."
Some Muslims want to reform Islam, he said, and retain only peaceful elements.
"That's fine, but then you are not pure Muslim," Gaubatz said.
Article 6 of the US Constitution
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Originally posted by Fromabove
Sharia law dehumanizes women, oppresses people of other faiths, demands death, dismemberment and beatings of those convicted under it. Sharia law is not a valid system of law. It is brutal, and totalitarian in form and practice. No matter how many ways one tries to paint a happy face on Islam or sharia, it still comes out the same. These people intend to rule the entire world one day, or will destroy it in the attempt to rule it. When will people wise up and look it in the face for what it is.
Of those who are not just ignorantly following through with the anti-shariah bill nonsense, those people who are actually actively pursuing it with full knowledge, there is only one reason: xenophobic, bigoted, islamophobic (yes, I used that word, deal with it ) hatred of Islam.
Originally posted by Firefly_
Originally posted by Fromabove
Sharia law dehumanizes women, oppresses people of other faiths, demands death, dismemberment and beatings of those convicted under it. Sharia law is not a valid system of law. It is brutal, and totalitarian in form and practice. No matter how many ways one tries to paint a happy face on Islam or sharia, it still comes out the same. These people intend to rule the entire world one day, or will destroy it in the attempt to rule it. When will people wise up and look it in the face for what it is.
The same could be said about other religions too, look at the past history for christianity and judaism for example. Look at the state of the planet now they are in charge.
Originally posted by freakjive
Your final assumption:
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You are incorrect. They are fighting Shariah Law simply because IT IS UNAMERICAN!!! We don't want or need your Shariah nonsense here. Practice your Muslim faith all you want, but if you come to America...you follow American Constitutional Law.
Originally posted by Fromabove
reply to post by bhornbuckle75