Posted on 02/24/2015 9:14:42 AM PST by DFG
An Islamic tribunal, launched in Dallas last year to settle civil disputes among the growing Muslim population, is drawing quarrels over its use of Shariah law.
Opponents fear it would open the door to extreme practices and corporal punishment linked to Shariah law in certain Muslim-majority countries. Still others argue it would replace the U.S. Constitution.
But organizers say the panel of arbitrators issues nonbinding decisions on matters such as business disputes and religious divorces. They note its parallels with Jewish rabbinical courts and Catholic tribunals.
The very word “Shariah” invokes backlash from those who don’t understand it and use it as a “catch phrase for fear-mongering against Islam and Muslims,” said Hadi Jawad, a Dallas businessman and a Muslim.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Honor killings are already occurring in the Dallas Metroplex. It is not hysteria to believe that the Islamist community supports the parts of Sharia law that political correctness prevents from being openly discussed.
A Lewisville man who is suspected of murdering his two teenage daughters in Irving in 2008 has been added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.
Yaser Abdel Said, 57, took his daughters, Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, for a ride in his taxi cab on Jan. 1, 2008. They thought he was taking them to get something to eat. But Said shot both girls to death inside the cab at an Irving motel, authorities say.
The Egyptian-born father disappeared after the killings and remains a fugitive...
They are claiming to be judges and lawyers, which they are not in this country. That is a crime.
Is Sharia law in Texas such a bad thing?
02/04/2015 5:10:11 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 70 replies
The Dallas Morning News ^ | February 3, 2015 | Rodger Jones
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3254169/posts
Shades of Hanoi Jane insisting that we would LOVE to live under Communism if we only knew what it truly is.
Wasn’t that the stand-out sentence in this piece of hackery?!
Bump.
Got any specifics on this?
There was a muslim meeting in a Dallas metroplex civic hall recently. Non-muslims (who’d registered and paid their admission) were denied entrance. To a public building no less.
Can’t have outsider interlopers reporting things to the press.
Also found this quote:
“About 2 out of 3 U.S. Muslims is foreign-born, according a Pew Research Center study from 2011.”
It is foreign funded colonizing of this nation. There is no assimilation. It is isolationist.
I have no problem with anybody submitting to a religious tribunal, as long as they do so by choice, and all parties are voluntarily submitting to that judgment.
This would, obviously, apply to civil complaints only - because criminal cases would have to be subject to the law, not a religious tribunal.
However - I would be OK with a defendant in a criminal charge agreeing to a religious tribunal and punishment - as long as the punishment was not lighter than that decreed by law.
Hard to believe this could happen in Texas.
Irving TX (my hometown) has been all aflutter as the Muslims moved in... only a matter of time until “Shariah Police” are roaming the streets
And the local liberal paper bows down to CELEBRATE it.
They are calling themselves judges, claiming to have been schooled in law at such and such place, doing the hearings in law offices. Is this a legally recognized practice in this state? Can they legally practice law here?
The court uses a conference room in a northeast Dallas law office, where one of the judges works. During a visit there, that judge, Taher el-Badawi, said the tribunal has settled about two dozen cases, mostly of divorcing couples.
“Our community really needs an Islamic tribunal to solve problems,” he said. “And we save money and save time for all the community.”
... El-Badawi has a law degree from his native Egypt and a master’s in international law from Southern Methodist University. The two other judges are Lebanon-born Imam Moujahed Bakhach of the Islamic Association of Tarrant County, and Pakistan-born, British-raised Imam Zia ul-Haque Sheikh of the Islamic Center of Irving.
Their website — Islamictribunal.org — says: “Experienced judges ready to fight for you,” and “Great advisors solve problems.”
Sharia is based on feudal barbarity and has no place in the United States. The United States has not yet revoked the Constitution, and until it does, the Constitution is the law of our land.
Any follower of islam who doesn’t like this is free to exercise his right to leave.
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