If and when their following sharia law rather than US law causes them to break US law, then arrest and prosecute them?
Why is this such a difficult issue? Why are you so threatened by people talking big? I suspect very few of them would actually follow through and risk arrest and prosecution to uphold sharia.
If they do, who cares? They’re in jail. Where they belong for breaking the law of this nation.
Sherman logan,
“If and when their following sharia law rather than US law causes them to break US law, then arrest and prosecute them?”
I was going to put the issue to you in this manner:
they said they would break the US law if it conflicted with sharia
But you answered it already, that if they broke US law, they should be arrested and prosecuted.
Oliviaforever,
Do you agree, that if that group breaks US law in the course of going with sharia law, that they be arrested and prosecuted?
Actually, assuming that the article is correct, they have broken Federal and state laws with this, in three ways:
1) there’s a requirement under the law to notify the government that such a court exists and is operating.
2) there’s a requirement under the law that representatives (”lawyers”) be licensed by the government
3) there’s a requirement under the law that the court operates in a non-discriminatory manner.
Again, if the article is true then laws have been broken, one of which (licensing of the representatives) is a felony. The state needs to step in, shut the courts down and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.
I don’t see how this new law really acts to strengthen the protections already in place. What would be helpful, I think, is a law strengthening the ability of the state to conduct oversight of such tribunals (regardless of whether they are Islamic, or Judaic or Trekkie ...) to ensure that those involved in them understand the voluntary nature of them, their rights under federal/state/local law (which is supreme), and avenues for seeking federal/state/local redress if appropriate.