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I guess this could be called ‘mission creep’ or a mission of the muzzie creeps.
In Texas of all places. The public officials have gone mad. What is there to do with insane governance? It is not called “creeping sharia” for nothing. It definitely has a demonic element to it because it beguiles and blinds those responsible for stopping it.
So ebony should e-mail this to FOX and Friends. They were just discussing this idiocy.
Thanks for posting. HOORAY Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller.
The new Sharia tribunal in Texas is all “voluntary,” you see, so there is absolutely nothing for you Infidels to be worried about. The only catch is that we have seen how those “voluntary” tribunals worked out in Britain.
“‘Voluntary’ Sharia Tribunal in Texas: This Is How It Starts,” by Pamela Geller, Breitbart, January 28, 2015:
Breitbart Texas confirmed Tuesday that “an Islamic Tribunal using Sharia law” is indeed operating in Texas. But not to worry: an attorney for the tribunal assures us that participation is “voluntary,” and one of the Sharia judges, Dr. Taher El-badawi, says it’s devoted only to “non-binding dispute resolution.”
This is how it starts. This is how it started in the United Kingdom. When Sharia courts were instituted there, Muslim and non-Muslim officials alike all assured the British public and the world that they would be voluntary, restricted to matters involving non-criminal matters, and subject to the British courts. - Any areas in which British law and Sharia law conflicted would be referred not to the Sharia courts, but to the British courts.
That is not how it worked out.
A BBC Panorama Documentary goes undercover in one of the 85 sharia courts operating as a parallel legal system in the UK, uncovering the extensive abuse of women, refusal to grant divorces, charging of the woman but not the man for divorce proceedings, and even the taking away of the woman’s children, and rulings contrary to British law.
Now this is coming to Texas.
When asked what he would do when Islamic law conflicted with American law, El-badawi said: “We follow Sharia law.”
I actually don’t care if they practice Sharia law in amongst themselves to moderate arguments or other domestic disputes - unless local, state or federal laws are violated. Then Sharia is a door mat for the entry of American law and order.
As I have pointed out before, there is no way to prevent “Sharia tribunals” or “Sharia courts” from providing binding settlements for disputes between Muslims in any jurisdiction that permits litigants to agree on an non-judicial arbitrator for binding arbitration. I believe Texas is such a jurisdiction.
In any such jurisdiction, it is hardly surprising for pious Muslims to wish their disputes to be settled by imams (who will organize themselves into a Sharia court), pious Jews (at least pious Orthodox Jews) to wish their disputes be settled by a a rabbinic court, and perhaps even for pious Christians in traditions that maintain a notion of apostolic succession to wish their disputes be settled by their local bishop.
So long as settlements obtained by binding arbitration can be appealed to the courts and the courts on appeal judge the matters according to American law with only as much deference to the religious law of the arbiters as is appropriate for courts to show to contracts — contracts cannot trump either statutory or constitutional rights — there is nothing obnoxious about this.
What would be obnoxious would be Sharia courts with their own enforcement mechanisms provided by Muslim mobs or paramilitaries. Should such ever arise, they should be treated as criminal enterprises under RICO and stamped out.
I can’t believe Greg Abbott is allowing this.
With all due respect, you people from Texas can just STFU now. I don’t need to hear how bad a$$ and how “we don’t put up with (insert whatever here) blah, blah, blah....
So when can the Mormons, the Catholics, and the Scientology cult all setup their own parallel legal systems..?
Hmph.
Texans, or not?
Wait until heads start floating down the Trinity River.
