Posted on 05/16/2015 7:58:45 PM PDT by upchuck
By BI: Republican-sponsored anti-sharia legislation which would ensure that Islamic and other foreign laws are kept out of consideration by South Carolina courts is being stonewalled by Democrat panderers who seek to appease Muslim supremacists pushing hard to get sharia law recognized by American courts.
Post and Courier A vote on the anti-Sharia law bill was postponed until Tuesday at the earliest after an hours-long debate over Charleston Republican Rep. Chip Limehouse’s proposal. Limehouse has said a law is needed to prevent radical Islamic beliefs from infiltrating state courts.
Democrats said the bill showed why the GOP was unfit to govern and why South Carolina is the butt of late-night television jokes. They accused Republicans of legislating off of Internet rumors.
Rep. James Smith, D-Columbia, called the bill “red meat” and “politics at its worst,” while Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, D-Orangeburg, chastised Limehouse and others for having the wrong priorities.
Defenders of the measure said that events in Iraq and the growth of radical Islam in America mean that South Carolina should ensure that laws adhered to by militant groups like ISIS don’t end up in U.S. courts.
Sharia law is also sometimes used in Muslim communities to settle contract disputes or family matters, although American courts are not bound by those rules. The terrorist group ISIS has used the 14th century laws to justify the beheading of prisoners in Syria and Iraq.
Elibiary is a former Obama Homeland Security Senior Advisor
Limehouse has cited the Center for Security Policy, a conservative Washington, D.C.-based think tank, that has prompted states around the country to introduce laws banning the use of foreign or Sharia laws.
The center has cited 146 cases in 32 states where Sharia law was used as a legal argument. Those states are Tennessee, Louisiana, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Washington, Alabama and Florida, according to the center.
A fear of Islamic law has grown particularly among conservative groups around the country as terrorist groups have carried out attacks and spread their message on social media.
Rep. Joe Neal, D-Hopkins, said Republicans were fear-mongering. “Laws in this state ought to be based on our Constitution not on fear, not on suspicion,” he said. “We’re better than this because we don’t need to give in to fear … and the kind of low-brow politics this seems to represent.”
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Wonder if the Demwits would like to see Islamic laws in family courts?
Wouldn’t it be poetic justice for one of their daughters to marry one of the horde and then have sharia justice brought down on her.
They can all go pound sand!
Stoned to death for being lesbian. Stoned to death for being raped. Being seen in public without a hijab. Driving a car. Clitorectomy. Yes, that would be sweet.
Indeed. A classic example of “Be careful what you wish for. You may just get it.”
Traitors, all of them.
Let us recall that at Democrat Party convention in September of 2012 to nominate BHO to be their candidate for president that the convention booed a resolution to change the platform to omit the mention of God.
see for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUJE9YfsbNQ
So, what are we seeing when we see a party who ejects God, that is the God that most Americans think of, that is the God of the Bible, yet who defend the religious and secular law that is from the deity of a religion that is waging war against Christians and Jews?
I think we are seeing the mask slipping from secular progressive ideology. I think that this “secular” ideology is in fact a religion that is “hell bent” (so to speak) at waging war against people who follow God, that is people who are at least culturally Christian and Jewish. In the process, this ideology also wants to replace the free market and our republic with fascism.
And too many Republicans are being useful idiots about this treason.
Just to remind the Muslims and their progressive defenders why their efforts to destroy Israel will not succeed:
Psalms 132:13-14
(13) For the LORD hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for His habitation:
(14) ‘This is My resting-place for ever; here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
Amen. Godless heathens trying to help other Godless heathens.
The problem with proposing a ban on Sharia is the consequence of the ban failing inevitably giving it tacit, legal support.
It’s better in my opinion to just enforce Constitutional law which Sharia cannot withstand.
Every day I am just so happy that some people here were screaming and putting up post after post after post after nauseating post that Romney was just as bad as Obama. Well, I guess that taught the GOP a lesson they will never forget.
See how fast they come running to Christians with guns.
Thanks for the Megavote thing. (I’m not in SC.)
Seems to me that you stated that wrong. Seems like they booed the inclusion of God.
What a mess we’ve made of this country.
In a nutshell, regarding sharia law Isaiah 5:20 says it best.
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.”
Did not the dirtbag demoncrat in drag, Arlen Specter, invoke Scottish law during the Clintoon impeachment proceedings? Demoncrats claim that making a law to prohibit the use of any foreign bullshiite laws from soiling our courts is a red herring. Dirtbag Arlen proved it can be done at the highest levels.
Across the United States, religious courts operate on a routine, everyday basis. The Roman Catholic Church alone has nearly 200 diocesan tribunals that handle a variety of cases, including an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 marriage annulments each year. In addition, many Orthodox Jews use rabbinical courts to obtain religious divorces, resolve business conflicts and settle other disputes with fellow Jews. Similarly, many Muslims appeal to Islamic clerics to resolve marital disputes and other disagreements with fellow Muslims.
Do we need to abolish all religious courts?
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