[rovenstinez]

I wonder if they Mexican owner, Carlos Slim Helu gives a hill of beans.

[Yossarian]

Gee, what a swell lead-in to the 10th anniversary of 9/11!

Thanks, New York Times!

[icanhasbailout]

You think that's something, the US military spent trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives to set up not one but three Sharia-ruled nations. That's the plain fact, and you can read the constitutions of Afghanistan, Iraq, and the draft for the new Libyan government if you want to see the truth with your own eyes.

[firebrand]

My opinion is that any law that abridges the rights of United States citizens should be—and may actually be—illegal here. That would include much of Sharia law.

[Lazamataz]

The New York Times would promote child pornography, Communism, genocide.... snything evil, the NYT is on board.

[Issaquahking]

For anyone doubting who the enemy are....

[Blood of Tyrants]

Liberals are too stupid to realize that Judeo-Christian values gave them the freedom be be idiots and that Islam would destroy all freedom.

[GeronL]

Freedom & Shariah are 100% incompatible.

[cranked]

There are a multitude of ways to destroy this country and the NYT advocates for each and every one of them... =.=

[dog breath]

The liberals are too thick to realize that under Sharia law they would be the first targets. Homosexuals, New Age practices, pagans, woman rights activists would all be on the short list.

[Dick Bachert]

If they are prohibited from practicing shari’a law they might be inclined to go somewhere where it IS allowed — LIKE BACK from whence they came.

And that’s a bad thing because...?

[SkyPilot]

For Liberals, the biggest enemy is God - the real one, the Judeo-Christian one.

That is all anyone needs to understand.

[The_Reader_David]

The analogizing of Sharia to Jewish rabbinic law, or Latin or Orthodox canon law, for that matter, is flawed in that none of the other systems of religious law purport to be binding on those who are not adherents of the religion in question, with, perhaps, some minor exceptions when one who is not a Jew is living in a household with Jews. Sharia as set forth by any Islamic fiqh (school of jurisprudence) contains all manner of restrictions, requirements and the like binding on non-Muslims.

Actually, I see nothing wrong with courts considering other systems of law in the narrow circumstance where a statutory right to enter into binding arbitration exists and the parties to a dispute have chosen arbiters precisely for the purpose of having a dispute settled under another system of laws, provided the court gives precedence to the Constitutional, statutory and Common Law rights of the parties ahead of the dictates of the legal system used by the arbiters; or in the similarly narrow circumstances in which a contract involves properties or parties both in the U.S. and outside the U.S., in which case the law of the other country might be considered.

(Courts should always be able to consider Common Law -- though American precedents should trump those from other countries which inherited the Common Law -- the Founders plainly regarded Common Law notions like habeas corpus as normative, and a foundation of liberty. Any statute seeking to forbid consideration of "other systems of law" that is so broadly drawn in what it forbids or so narrow in what it permits that Common Law cannot be considered is throwing the proverbial baby out with the proverbial bath water.)

[al_c]

The crusade against Shariah undermines ...

Crusade? Did they really use that word? NYT is a pathetic rag.

[Graewoulf]

” ( - - - legal framework to regulate public and private aspects of life - - - ) “

Isn’t that what the libs are trying to do with their PC movement?

Isn’t the NYT a rag staffed by libs?

Why should the NYT have a problem with other cultures trying to regulate and control their people, since the NYT tries to do that every day ?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Let’s allow each religion to establish its own laws, and see where that would take us.

[upchuck]

a bill recently passed by the Tennessee General Assembly equates Shariah with a set of rules that promote “the destruction of the national existence of the United States.”

Tennessee BUMP! That is exactly the goal of Shariah Law.

[GOPJ]

Can we assume the New York Times would also back ‘Catholic Law’ and “Baptist Law” and “Mormon Law”? Or a general ‘Christian Law’?

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

a bill recently passed by the Tennessee General Assembly equates Shariah with a set of rules that promote “the destruction of the national existence of the United States.”

Correct analysis of the situation....

[PrairieLady2]

Separation of “church” and state.

Churches don’t rule on civil law, States don’t rule on church law.

THAT is what the separation is ‘supposed’ to be. Thank God we live in a time warp on earth, and not eternity.