Posted on 11/04/2010 9:02:09 AM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
Voters have passed an amendment to the Oklahoma state constitution to ban the use of Islamic Sharia law in the state courts by an overwhelming 70% of the vote. The amendment also bars judges from using foreign law in rendering decisions.
Seen as a pre-emptive strike, Oklahoma now joins Louisiana in blocking Sharia law, a draconian legal doctrine that does not recognize the most basic human rights as measured by any Western standard.
As previously reported on HUMAN EVENTS, free speech rights are under assault worldwide through violence, threats of violence, and Sharia-compliant “incitement” laws.
In England, 85 Sharia courts are in use and are pulling even non-Muslims into the system, threatening to overturn equal justice in the courts.
The American Thinker tells of a June 2010 study titled “Sharia Law in Britain: A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights”, which begins with a quote from the Secretary General of the Islamic Sharia Council Suhaib Hasan, “If Sharia law is implemented, then you can turn this country [Great Britain] into a haven of peace because once a thief’s hand is cut off nobody is going to steal.” Furthermore, “once[,] just only once, if an adulterer is stoned[,] nobody is going to commit this crime at all,” and finally, “[w]e want to offer it to the British society. If they accept it, it is for their good and if they don’t accept it they’ll need more and more prisons.”
Any attempt to shut down the dual court system in England would likely cause more jihadi violence and bloodshed.
In 2005, Canada rejected setting up the dual court system amid vocal protest, yet Sharia is creeping into the legal system in divorce and custody cases, undermining the equal status of women under the law.
In the United States in August, a New Jersey judge denied a restraining order to a Muslim woman after she had been repeatedly raped by her husband. Marital rape is permitted under Sharia law.
Fox News reported that the man’s wife is a Moroccan woman who had recently emigrated to the U.S. at the time of the attacks.
“Defendant forced plaintiff to have sex with him while she cried. Plaintiff testified that defendant always told her ‘this is according to our religion. You are my wife, I c[an] do anything to you. The woman, she should submit and do anything I ask her to do,” according to court records.
“In considering the woman’s plea for a restraining order after the couple divorced, Charles ruled in June 2009 that a preponderance of the evidence showed the defendant had harassed and assaulted her, but ‘The court believes that [defendant] was operating under his belief that it is, as the husband, his desire to have sex when and whether he wanted to, was something that
Oklahoma was also voting on banning NObamacare. How did that turn out?
CAIR says they’re filing a lawsuit. Not sure on what grounds, but they did say that the law is discriminatory and anti-Muslim.”
Let them go back to whatever Hellhole they came from & stay there.
They surely are not assimilating into OUR society!!!
Come into my house? You don’t get to tell me how to cook—or how to feed my horses or dogs—or whether my dogs cleaning up the plates before the dishwasher gets it’s turn is unsanitary!!!!!
You can depart....Close the gate behind yourself.
An Oklahoma Islamic group says a legal challenge is planned against a ballot measure prohibiting state courts from considering international law or Islamic law when deciding cases.
>CAIR says they’re filing a lawsuit
Oooh, don’t throw me in that briar patch.
Bring it on, a court case on this would be edifying.
How could they not claim in it that they consider the Quran superior to the Constitution.......
“cowboys and muzzies”
Yup.
And they must have identification to vote as well.
They're on the radar
I'm up for that. If I wanted my daughters to live under Sharia, I'd be working in Saudi Arabia, making $70K a year tax-free. Some things aren't worth any amount of money.
Old Student, Adoptive Okie.
If 'ifs' and 'buts' were candy and nuts, it'd be Christmas every day.
Let’s all get our state to do the same. I contacted my state senator.
Thanks for the ping!!
That’s a mighty big IF there son. Our elite rulers have recently confirmed a Supreme Court Justice named Elena the Wise Latina (quoting her, not being racist or sarcastic) who stated on examination that she would look at International Law if it suited the case and gave support for the desired decision. So what do you think of that?
That’s a mighty big IF there son. Our elite rulers have recently confirmed a Supreme Court Justice named Elena the Wise Latina (quoting her, not being racist or sarcastic) who stated on examination that she would look at International Law if it suited the case and gave support for the desired decision. So what do you think of that?
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