Posted on 10/04/2011 7:13:56 AM PDT by Liz
TEXAS ISLAMIC COURT, 888 S. Greenville Ave, Suite 188, Richardson, Texas.
EXCERPT On September 25, 2002, all five parties to the divorce signed an "Arbitration Agreement." This document recites, in full, that the parties: after consultation with their respective attorneys, agree to submit all claims and disputes among them to arbitration by the TEXAS ISLAMIC COURT (entire opinion at link)
Personally, I think marriage is a religious institution. I don’t believe government should be involved at all. In divorce, where separation of property and where children wind up, it should be an issue for the civil courts. If gays want to have gay churches and get married, it’s none of my business. This would keep gubmint from attempting to force Christian churches to perform ceremonies where their beliefs are compromised.
REFERENCE Dallas Morning News, June 14, 2005 Gov. Rick Perry flew in to lay the first ceremonial brick for the center's foundation. It was a symbolic gesture since the site for the new center will be a few miles northeast of the Gleneagles Country Club in Plano, where the foundation ceremony was held.
The governor, who is friends with the Ismaili Muslims' spiritual leader, His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan, said he was honored to participate.
"Our culture is enriched and our society strengthened by a diverse mixture of traditions, heritages and faiths," Mr. Perry said. "While differences may exist on the surface, there is a common hope for the future that dwells in the heart of every Texan."
The Ismaili Jamatkhana and Center is a house of worship for Ismailis and a gathering place for youths. The proposed 30,000-square-foot Plano facility will be the first one in Collin County and one of five Jamatkhanas in North Texas.
So does this mean he would have a muslime in his cabinet? /s
You can be assured I am not going to support Perry with that attitude. If he’s not intelligent enough to realize the danger Muslims present to this country he is not someone I want leading this country. We’ve got a Muslim apologist now.
Or as Popeye once said, "Swami, Salaami, Baloney!"
” REFERENCE Dallas Morning News, June 14, 2005 Gov. Rick Perry flew in to lay the first ceremonial brick for the center’s foundation “
Yeah....we need that....
Of course---to his inferior way of thinking---he o-w-e-s 'em plenty. There'll be federal goodies all around.
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Looking at the way Ricky operates, he seems to have a checklist of Texas voting blocs. He and his henchmen figure out how to use tax dollars nail those votes.
Perry then gets on all fours, puckers up, and sucks-up up for votes.
Ergo---Texas gets in-state tuition, sharia courts, the largest mosque in the US, numerous "funds" and non-profits that giveaway tax dollars to his supporters, etc, etc, etc.
One news report entitled “The Governor’s Gusher,” documents 100 campaign donors who “have sought corporate welfare, relaxed regulatory rules or other government favors” from Ricky, in exchange for political largess in his gubernatorial races. A disturbing number of these profiteers made a fortune off Texas government handouts or by bending or breaking regulatory rules.
Take a look at the tangle of self-interest surrounding the $200 million Texas Emergency Technology Fund, created at Perry's behest, and the $295 million Texas Enterprise Fund which doles out millions of tax dollars to Perry supporters.
God knows what Ricky would do with federal power after getting his hands on the US Treasury.
” His thinking is lost in the fez. “
And he will never fez up : )
The essential concept here is "voluntary". An "agreement" where one or more of the parties was compelled to sign because of duress or undue influence can be invalidated.
In Islam, rejecting the jurisdiction of a Sharia court where one is available makes one an apostate. Apostates are marked for death in Islamic communities. At minimum, they are shunned.
No Muslim woman, especially one living in a heavily Muslim community, can be considered able to freely consent to Sharia jurisdiction because of the strong elements of duress present.
There is a movement to make the teaching of the concept of heaven and hell to young children a form of emotional child abuse. The argument is remarkably the same as the argument you make here -- that people, especially the younger people, but also all people who would fall for religion, are easily led, can easily be pushed under duress to accept whatever beliefs they are told.
And by telling a young child that they could die and go to a place of fire and brimstone, you are emotionally scarring them, in order to force them to accept your religion.
There is a good reason to keep government out of ANY judgment of religion -- because they ARE coming for the Christians. They are warming up on the minor religious practices, and like in WW2, if we don't stand up for the rights of all to make stupid decisions about their own religious beliefs, when they are ready to persecute US, there will be nobody else left to help defend our liberty.
I fully support laws in this country that will prosecute people for murder if they kill others, for whatever reason. That would hold true for "apostates" marked for death, for kids who don't join the right gang and are marked for death, for people who draw pictures of Mohamed, for people who testify against killers in court.
This has nothing to do with Rick Perry, either way. There should not BE a panel of anything Sharia, in America. Don’t be deceived. It is the FIRST steps of leeching it into our system. That’s why it’s called “Creeping Sharia”. Nor could it be more contrary to America’s laws. And broadly so, as is dictated by Islam. It is also in full misalignment with the Word of God.
As the 11th hour approaches us, we are going to see exactly WHY this nation should have never turned it’s back on God. He said this would come to pass. And it is.
The ability to arbitrate legal contract disputes is a fundamental tenet of contract law in the U.S.
Two parties to a legal contract decided before signing the contract that any disputes about the contract would be arbitrated by a panel of Muslims of their choosing.
Amish, Jewish, and various other religious groups also want their own advisors to mediate contract disputes between two parties in their group. They have the right to establish how they want to resolve contract disputes.
If you say there can be no Muslim arbitration panel established by Muslims, then you must also say that no other religious group can establish an arbitration panel for its members. In so doing you are fundamentally changing contract law in the U.S. by revoking the rights of parties to a contract to arbitrate disputes and forcing them into a court of law.
The poster is no conservative.
No faith-based arbitration, is what I’m saying. That’s all.
What is your evidence that the number is that high?
If you CANT PROVE the number is that high, what should be our response to a religion that openly says it is supposed to be 100% of them that believe that?
I’ll ask you again: If the religion believes that 100% of the people of that religion should kill Jews and conquor the world, what should be our response?
I got my number from Wikipedia, where it goes into some detail listing the countries and their reported populations of Muslims.
Feel free to google “How many muslims in the world” - and you should get all the data you need. There are quite a few of them in Asia, and Africa, as well as the middle east
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