Posted on 02/01/2017 3:48:16 PM PST by Olog-hai
Republican lawmakers in Idaho again are pushing legislation designed to prevent state courts or government agencies from making decisions based on Islamic religious law or other foreign legal codes.
The bill was introduced Wednesday in a House committee a year after a similar proposal made it to the House floor but died. There are no known cases in which an Idaho judge has based a ruling on Shariah law.
Fears over Islamic religious law and Muslim immigration have been growing in Idaho and reinforced inside the deeply conservative Statehouse with President Donald Trump’s order temporarily banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations.
Boise, the capital, is one of a handful of smaller U.S. cities that has accepted outsized numbers of Syrian refugees, at 108. Most refugees settle there or in Twin Falls, whose refugee resettlement center critics have argued should be shut down. No Syrians have resettled in that city. …
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YES!!!
Sharia law is absolutely forbidden by the Constitution is the United States (Art IV, Sec 4)!!!
It’s astonishing to me that we even need to consider this legislation.
The founders, Thomas Jefferson in particular, are spinning in their graves.
He studied the Koran so he would know his enemy.
How’s that new milk processing plant working out for the residents of Idaho. Yogurt for all....
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