Does Islamic law, Sharia, have a place in American courts? A lot of state legislatures don’t think so, and there is a movement to ban its application in domestic courts, state and federal.
It’s one of those national issues that for now is not before the U.S. Supreme Court, but almost inevitably will be before the justices somewhere down the line, even if just in the petition stage.
Sharia, based on the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, is often a consideration in [...]
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A highly-debated North Carolina bill forbidding the application of “foreign law” in domestic and child abuse cases passed the state’s House vote Thursday.
Although the text of the bill makes no mention of it pertaining to Shariah law, many argue that its close representation to other states’ bills proves that its goal is to prevent the interpretation of Shariah law in state courtrooms.
House Bill 695, which passed the North Carolina House Thursday by 69 to 42 vote, seeks “to protect its [...]
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A man in his 20s has been arrested in connection with alleged racist comments made on the internet about the planned Muslim prayer centre in Shrewsbury, police revealed this afternoon.
The man was held on suspicion of using words or carrying out behavior likely to stir up racial hatred in connection with comments made on a social media site about the centre. He is currently on police bail as inquiries continue.
Police have also confirmed they are carrying out a full investigation [...]
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Former US Attorney General Mike Mukasey spoke recently at Temple Emanuel in Greensboro, North Carolina. “Isms all want to rid the world of something. Nazism wanted to rid the world of Jews. Communism wanted to rid the world of God. Islamism wants to rid the world of infidels – that is you,” said Mukasey.
Sharia (the “path) is Islamic law. According to most sources, including the Council on Foreign Relations, sharia is made up of rules that regulate every nook and cranny [...]
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“And while my stepfather, like most Indonesians, was raised a Muslim, he firmly believed that all religions were worthy of respect. And in this way — (applause) — in this way he reflected the spirit of religious tolerance that is enshrined in Indonesia’s Constitution, and that remains one of this country’s defining and inspiring characteristics”.
Barack Hussein Obama, November 10, 2010 – University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
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Homosexual men and women living in Indonesia’s strictly conservative Aceh province would be publicly lashed [...]
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A bill that would have banned Islamic or Sharia Law from being applied in state courts, died in the legislature Friday.
Senate President Don Gaetz on Friday declared the bill (HB 351) “resolved” after its sponsor decided not to ask for the unanimous vote required to move the bill forward. It had failed a previous procedural vote on Thursday. The House approved the legislation on a 79-39 vote last month.
The bill is similar in scope to bills in a handful of [...]
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Sean Hannity took on a Pew study with statistics on how many Muslims around the world support Sharia law, believe violence is justified, and think women should be subservient to their husbands. Hannity and radio host Bill Cunningham got heated with his Muslim guest, Mike Ghouse, over whether the numbers are an indication that “radical Islam is rising” all over the world, which Hannity also extrapolated to claim that it’s only a matter of time before Sharia law comes to [...]
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A majority of Muslims around the world want sharia law to be implemented in their countries but are split on how it should be applied, a Pew Research Center study has found.
A comprehensive study titled “The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society” conducted between 2008 and 2012 focused on 38,000 people in 39 countries and territories drawn from a global Muslim community of 2.2 billion people.
A solid majority of Muslims, notably in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, were in [...]
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A Pakistan-born migrant is to become the first Muslim woman to serve in an Australia parliament. Mehreen Faruqi, a prominent figure in environmental engineering, has been chosen by the New South Wales Greens to fill a vacancy in the upper house of the state legislature.
Mehreen Faruqi migrated from Pakistan with her family in 1992. She describes herself on her Twitter page as an “environmental engineer, climate change activist, proud union member and feminist.”
She has been chosen to represent the Greens, [...]
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Sharia councils must be penalised if they do not operate within the law of the land in order to allay fear and distrust among Britons, an MP said today.
Tory MP Kris Hopkins (Keighley and Ilkley) called on the Government to to spell out what penalties it would apply to sharia councils breaking the law.
Islamic sharia councils need to “operate within the law and should not form a concurrent legal system in the UK”, he said.
He asked the Government to confirm [...]
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In a brutal example of the Sharia justice system, the Taliban in Afghanistan cut off the hands and legs of two ‘thieves’ after a Sharia court delivered its verdict in the western Herat province.
The Taliban spokesman for western and southern areas of Afghanistan, Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, said the two men had earlier confessed that they had stolen the property of Muslims.
Taliban officials in Herat passed on the information to him in a report that the two men were punished in [...]
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Egypt has adopted a new, Islamist-backed constitution with nearly two-thirds support in a referendum preceded by weeks of sometimes bloody protests, official media said on Sunday.
The secular-leaning opposition, which has alleged fraud, was mulling its next move in its campaign against the text, which it says limits the freedoms of religious minorities and women. It was to hold a news conference later Sunday.
Official results are due on Monday after the second and final round of voting on Saturday.
Unofficial tallies given [...]
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Muslims nationwide were urged to take action against HB 4769, better known as the Anti-Islam Legislation.
State Legislator Dave Agema, a Republican from Michigan, was the state representative behind this bill, and actively pushing for it to pass during Michigan’s lame duck session.
CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, had their state-wide chapters calling on “all people of conscience” to urge their state governors “to veto the biased bill which is among those that seek to impose government-sanctioned discrimination on followers of [...]
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A Sudanese man convicted of murder was beheaded by the sword on Wednesday in the western city of Mecca, the Saudi interior ministry announced.
Othman Mohammed was found guilty of killing another Sudanese, Salah Ahmed, by repeatedly beating him on his head following a dispute between the two, the ministry said in a statement published by state news agency SPA.
Mohammed’s beheading raises to 76 the number of people executed so far this year in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom, where 79 were [...]
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A Saudi official appears to have paid a heavy price for staging “unethical parties” at his department, with a court in the Gulf Kingdom sentencing him to 25 years in jail and ordering him lashed 2,000 times in public.
The unnamed head of the government office in the southern town of Baha was also convicted of taking drugs, extortion of other officials and involvement in sodomy.
“He will be lashed in three batches after Friday’s prayers at the place where he committed [...]
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Australia’s first Sharia superannuation fund is being launched in Sydney.
It follows similar products overseas, where customers can choose a superannuation fund in line with Islamic principles.
The fund is called ‘Personal Choice, Private Era’ and is being run by private Islamic wealth management company Crescent Wealth, through the Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals’ personal choice category, called ‘Personal Choice Private e-wrap.
Crescent Wealth’s managing director Talal Yassine says the superannuation option is partly modeled on similar products overseas.
“That means you comply [...]
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Gov. Bill Haslam on Tuesday issued his strongest defense yet of a Muslim aide who has been criticized for once working in the field of Shariah compliant finance.
The Republican governor was asked after a speech to a Nashville Republican group whether he was incorporating elements of Islamic law into state government. Such criticism emerged after the Haslam administration earlier this year hired Samar Ali to work in the Department of Economic and Community Development.
Haslam said Ali, an attorney who grew [...]
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A self-styled “Lord” who cheated on his wife has lost his legal battle to stop her divorcing him.
Millionaire property developer Houshang Jafari, 60, claimed under Sharia law – the moral code and religious law of Islam – that he was allowed to take a second wife.
He left the family home in Bristol and moved his new girlfriend Katrina Jafari into his exclusive flat in the city.
His wife had sought a divorce on the grounds of “unreasonable conduct”.
Aghdas Bidaki, 53, who [...]
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Egypt’s constituent assembly voted on Thursday to keep a vaguely worded Mubarak-era article in the new charter that the principles of Sharia (Islamic law) are the main source of legislation.
The panel is voting on the constitution article by article, and unanimously approved keeping the formulation from the past constitution, which was suspended after a popular uprising overthrew Hosni Mubarak in early 2011.
The clause states that “Islam is the state religion, and the Arabic language is its official language. The principles [...]
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In a recent column, I referred to this excellent presentation: Can The United States Constitution Destroy Itself? Anyone who has taken the time to read and listen to the words of Muslim clerics and the Muslim Brotherhood fully and clearly understand the number one goal is to take over these united States of America and replace the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights with the sickness called Islam. The web site highlighted above gives you the documents to back up [...]
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Saudi authorities on Wednesday carried out a court sentence against a Nigeria man by cutting his hand off with a sword after he was convicted of theft in the Gulf Kingdom, the official press agency (SPA) reported.
The unidentified man was sentenced to amputation of his right hand by a criminal court before the verdict was upheld by an appeals court and then by the Supreme Court. SPA said King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia had endorsed the verdict to sever the [...]
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The legal battle over alimony payments in New Jersey has turned into a clash of civilizations with an activist group accusing an Arab Muslim judge of imposing Sharia, or Islamic law, on Family Court cases.
Family Court Judge Hany Mawla first made headlines in 2010 when then-Gov. Jon S. Corzine made him the first Muslim-American appointed to state Superior Court.
Mawla lately has drawn renewed attention for his rulings on alimony payments. In one case, which is being championed by advocates of [...]
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Dr. Andrew Bostom, a medical doctor and expert on radical Islam, is worried that Sharia – extremist Islamic law – could make its way into the U.S. Muslim community.
“My concern is to look at institutional Islam: we see the example of the Middle East, where clearly Sharia is being sanctioned by the major religious teaching institutions,” he tells Newsmax TV’s John Bachman.
“The problem is that since so many of these [U.S.] imams are trained in the Middle East, we’re seeing [...]
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Over 10,000 Muslims demonstrated Friday in downtown Cairo to demand that Egypt?s new constitution be based on the rulings of Islamic law, or Shariah, in the latest tussle over the role of religion in the country?s future.
The writing of the constitution has been fraught with controversy since last year?s political uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak and ushered in the rise of formerly repressed Islamists to power. But Islamists themselves are not in agreement over the interpretation of Shariah [...]
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Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, explains how Islamists have penetrated the U.S. Government and both the Obama and George W. Bush Administrations to undermine Western Civilization and attempt to Institute Shariah Law in America.
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The Truth on the Encroachment of Global Islamism
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