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Posted on 12/13/2012 2:30:11 PM PST by bayouranger
There they go again. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has just put out an Action Alert that takes direct aim at the Constitution of the United States.
At issue is the Michigan state legislature’s House Bill No. 4769, which looks likely to pass in coming days. Quite simply, that bill states that no foreign law may take precedence over American law or Michigan state law in a Michigan court room.
The key provision of the bill is Section 2, which says:
“A court, arbitrator, administrative agency, or other adjudicative, mediation, or enforcement authority shall not enforce a foreign law if doing so would violate a right guaranteed by the constitution of this state or of the United States.”
That’s it. Seems pretty straightforward and entirely in keeping with Article VI of the U.S. Constitution, which states:
“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…”
So why would CAIR call on its members to oppose legislation that protects all American citizens, upholds the U.S. Constitution and in no way interferes with the right of any individual to freely exercise his or her religion as guaranteed by the First Amendment?
CAIR (a Muslim Brotherhood front group) points to the answer in its own words. Its Action Alert decries “discrimination on followers of a minority faith” and terms the legislation “anti-Islam,” even though there is no mention of Islam or any other faith in the bill.
There’s also no mention of any specific foreign law, just the general proviso that if ever there is a conflict between any foreign law – be it French law, Islamic law, Japanese law, Zambian law or any other – and U.S. and/or Michigan state law, it is the American law and the Michigan law that will prevail.
So, then, in what way is such legislation “anti-Islam”?
It would seem that CAIR is saying that Islam is not just a religion, but actually a legal system (hint: it’s called “sharia.”) This is quite forthcoming of them, because in fact, of course, Islam is not merely about diet/fasting, devotion, prayer, worship, pilgrimage, and proselytizing (Da’wa), which are completely 100% protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. No, as CAIR is rightly pointing out, Islam is also a “complete way of life,” encompassing a legal, military, political, and social system. The name of that “complete way of life” is sharia (Islamic law), which governs every aspect of a Muslim’s life and actually forbids a separation between faith and governance. It is unlawful under sharia for a devout, practicing Muslim to “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s.”
The CAIR Action Alert against Michigan’s pending legislation perhaps unintentionally illustrates this in a most instructive way. The reason the Muslim Brotherhood and all other sharia-adherent Muslims cannot accept that sharia provisions that conflict with U.S. law be superseded by Constitutional law in American courts is precisely the notion that Islamic law must dominate all other laws on earth in every respect.
Of course, this sort of legal supremacism is not only in direct contravention of Article VI of the U.S. Constitution; if acted upon, it arguably also could be grounds for a charge of sedition, conspiracy to commit sedition, or misprision of sedition.
Aside from the obvious need to ensure that American law prevails in American courts, the specific nature of Islamic law is particularly problematic. Of course, CAIR does not mention this in its Action Alert, but although sharia indeed contains legal prescriptions about devotion and worship as well as many other aspects of life, there are also multiple elements of sharia that are utterly antithetical to the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
Most important of all is that the Islam of sharia mandates legal inequality between Muslims and non-Muslims, and between men and women. Sharia also imposes barbaric, mutilating punishments for theft, flogging for “fornication” and the death penalty for adultery, apostasy, homosexuality and, in some cases, slander/blasphemy. For those who do not accept the rule of Islam, sharia is a supremacist, violently expansionist doctrine that requires every Muslim to participate in jihad, which is “warfare to spread the religion.”
Clearly, then, CAIR, which was named by the Department of Justice an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation HAMAS terror funding trial, is presenting a misleading impression of Michigan’s “Restriction of Application of Foreign Laws Act” and also concealing its real reasons for opposing it.
This kind of deliberate dissimulation is called taqiyya and is often used by adherents of sharia to deceive the non-Muslim (infidel or kafir). Quite helpful for everyone, however, is the unintended way that CAIR provides a revealing look inside the operations of the Muslim Brotherhood in America as it seeks to protect the insinuation of sharia provisions into the U.S. legal system.
As a careful reading of Michigan’s House Bill No. 4769 will confirm, this legislation actually provides assurance that American Muslim families are afforded the same constitutional protections and liberties as other Americans. Unfortunately, as a June 2011 Center for Security Policy study demonstrated, Islamic law (sharia) is present already in the U.S. legal system in a significant way.
The data presented in the “Shariah Law and American State Courts: An Assessment of State Appellate Court Cases” study documented a total of 50 cases from 23 different states involving a “conflict of law” between sharia and American state law. Sharia-based legal conventions or decisions from 16 foreign countries had been brought to bear upon these 50 cases.
Muslim Americans, many of whom came to the U.S. to escape the oppressive rule of sharia in their home nations, are no less deserving of the protections of American law than other Americans born into the privilege of living in a free country where faith and state are kept separated by law.
Liberty-and-equality-protecting legislation like Michigan’s House Bill No. 4769 already has been passed in Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana and Tennessee and has been introduced in more than 20 more states, including Michigan. Emails, letters and phone calls from constituents in these states to state legislators can help to ensure passage for such measures. Residents of Michigan can contact their state representatives here.
Ironically, CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper himself supports the intent behind this legislation when it serves his purposes. When a Muslim woman working in Washington, D.C.'s Dulles International Airport for Aerotek, a local staffing agency for Air France, was told she could not wear her hijab to work because it was against Air France's uniform policy, Hooper was quoted as saying:
“Our position is that no company doing business in America has the obligation to enforce discriminatory foreign policies on American employees,” he said. “A discriminatory dress code implemented in France does not supersede American laws protecting the religious rights of American citizens.”
Mr. Hooper, we couldn’t agree more. Perhaps you could mention this to the folks in Michigan.
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If we have elements of Sharia Law already going on in Michigan. Why cannot we just add that all muslims must move out of Michigan? Dearborn is the capitol home of the Muslim population in Michigan. If the Muslims insist on Sharia. Than I must insist that the Amish laws be installed immediately, Also all the Laws of Judaism and the 640 laws of the Pharisees be installed too. Islam is a false religion rooted in Satanism.
Guess they’ve never played cowboys and muslims yet ....
If you look at the Hebrew in Genesis 16 you will note that the angel says "I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude." Hagar worships the angel and calls him the name of the Lord, yud-hay-vav-hay. Effectively, she names the messenger as G_d Himself and the angel does not correct her as the angel of Revelation 22:8-9 did with John. There is only one angel who would fail to do that: Lucifer himself.
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Who gives a damn what CAIR does or thinks. Communists, the whole damn organization.
"In giving to the President and Senate a power to make treaties, the Constitution meant only to authorize them to carry into effect, by way of treaty, any powers they might constitutionally exercise." --Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793."Surely the President and Senate cannot do by treaty what the whole government is interdicted from doing in any way." --Thomas Jefferson: Parliamentary Manual, 1812.
More specifically, if the Senate needs a specific power in order to negotiate a treaty which the states have never delegated to Congress via the Constitution, Article V requires the Senate to work with HoR to propose an appropriate amendment to the Constitution to the states. And if the states choose to ratify the proposed amendment, then Congress will have the specific power that it needs to negotiote the treaty.
Thats the way it's supposed to work anyway.
Sadly, Congress managed to snow the Supreme Court to use this back door when the Court decided Missouri v. Holland.
Missouri v. Holland
Also, despite PC interpretations of the Supremacy Clause, Clause 2 of Article VI, note that this clause only works when the states have delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to address a given issue.
Otherwise, the Founding States made the 10th Amendment to clarify that the Constitution's silence on any issue, healthcare, retirement, public schools, the environment, etc., is to be interpreted as meaning that the states have automatically reserved such powers uniquely to themselves.
Again, that's the way that it's supposed to work.
We’d better give a damn about what CAIR does or thinks. They are an Islamic spearpoint operating in the heart of America. In other words, they are the enemy of our way of life so we’d bettern know what they think and are doing so that we can better fight and defeat their “Islamic subversion” efforts.
Interestingly, many of the visibile voices of CAIR on the national level are white Americans who have converted to Islam, which makes them even more fanatical and dedicated to the promotion, advancement, and final victory of Islamic culture, religion, jihadism, and mindset in America.
They are the most direct threat to our Judaeo-Christian ethic, culture,way of life and political foundations of this country.
They are relentless, extremely well funded, staffed, and supported from within and without. In other words, they are dedicated subversives who try to paint themselves as only looking out for discrimination against Moslems in the US (but their definition is all encompassing so that anything you say or do to criticize, stop, or even comment on the Islamic religion/culture is considered a direct attack upon them and thus subject to their counterattacks).
This is war, only too many of our people either don’t recognize it, want to appease the Islamists, or are to stupid to understand that our whole way of life is under attack from them, aided and abetted, knowingly, by the Liberals and Leftists/Communists/Marxists/Obamists.
That is why we must give “a damn what CAIR does or thinks.
anti-Islam = pro-Freedom
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13 She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen[c] the One who sees me.” 14 That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi[d]; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
Interesting, could you explain? Where did you find the origin of the name of God she uses? Above is the NIV version of the Genesis 16 verses you spoke of.
You are absolutely right! Do we sit back and become like Europe or do we stop it now???
יהוה is the usual Hebrew for the name of the Lord (what some pronounce as "Jehovah," although the Jewish people hold that that correct pronunciation is unknown and is therefore best left unsaid). The verse I cited employs that form, one of the most ubiquitous words on any Hebrew Torah scroll. Scripture4all.org has a program, the Interlinear Scriptural Analyzer that I use frequently (a free download) for the Concordant Literal Hebrew English Sublinear translation, along with the blueletterbible.org lexicon reference by Strong's number for each root.
Having written a book about the amazing attributes of a single particular Biblical translation error, I have zero confidence in the NIV. 1 Samuel 15:24 and all that.
If people really want to live under Sharia law, they should pack up and MOVE to countries that are under their law of choice. To come to America and think they can uproot our very Constitution is just as crazy as an American moving to Pakistan and expecting to have the same freedoms he enjoyed in America. Would Pakistan change its constitution for American Christians? Don’t think so!
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Is this the same angel that inspired mohammad with revelations?
Figures! Muslims are not bound by man-made laws but allah’s. The koranic answer lies in surah 5, ayat 51. For muslims only islam trumps the Constitution.
Essentially, muslims are commanded not to be ruled by non-believers! Hense the preceived religious persecution and not being being able to practice their religion in freedom. Sadly american is blinded by islam’s intolerance & its hatred for non-believer. Are we to tolerate the intolerant?
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