Posted on 05/16/2015 7:58:45 PM PDT by upchuck
By BI: Republican-sponsored anti-sharia legislation which would ensure that Islamic and other foreign laws are kept out of consideration by South Carolina courts is being stonewalled by Democrat panderers who seek to appease Muslim supremacists pushing hard to get sharia law recognized by American courts.
Post and Courier A vote on the anti-Sharia law bill was postponed until Tuesday at the earliest after an hours-long debate over Charleston Republican Rep. Chip Limehouse’s proposal. Limehouse has said a law is needed to prevent radical Islamic beliefs from infiltrating state courts.
Democrats said the bill showed why the GOP was unfit to govern and why South Carolina is the butt of late-night television jokes. They accused Republicans of legislating off of Internet rumors.
Rep. James Smith, D-Columbia, called the bill “red meat” and “politics at its worst,” while Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, D-Orangeburg, chastised Limehouse and others for having the wrong priorities.
Defenders of the measure said that events in Iraq and the growth of radical Islam in America mean that South Carolina should ensure that laws adhered to by militant groups like ISIS don’t end up in U.S. courts.
Sharia law is also sometimes used in Muslim communities to settle contract disputes or family matters, although American courts are not bound by those rules. The terrorist group ISIS has used the 14th century laws to justify the beheading of prisoners in Syria and Iraq.
Elibiary is a former Obama Homeland Security Senior Advisor
Limehouse has cited the Center for Security Policy, a conservative Washington, D.C.-based think tank, that has prompted states around the country to introduce laws banning the use of foreign or Sharia laws.
The center has cited 146 cases in 32 states where Sharia law was used as a legal argument. Those states are Tennessee, Louisiana, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Washington, Alabama and Florida, according to the center.
A fear of Islamic law has grown particularly among conservative groups around the country as terrorist groups have carried out attacks and spread their message on social media.
Rep. Joe Neal, D-Hopkins, said Republicans were fear-mongering. “Laws in this state ought to be based on our Constitution not on fear, not on suspicion,” he said. “We’re better than this because we don’t need to give in to fear … and the kind of low-brow politics this seems to represent.”
Time for them Democrat woman to start wearing a hijab!
Democrats are in a suicide-murder pact with Islam.
Who is paying off these Dems? Do they accept money from foreign sources?
This is a legitimate issue, and I am glad to see it brought to sc.
There is something of a paradox here.
First of all, the law *wants* to pretend that religions are equal and valid. But for many years, there have been exceptions in the law for peaceful Judaism and Christianity.
That is, there is recognition of and respect for Christian ecclesiastical courts and batte din (Jewish tribunals), both because their law was entirely voluntary, objective and mostly fair, and both subservient to and respectful of the secular law.
Islamic Sharia is not this. However, the law will not let the law say so, in effect that the law must respect all other religious law, or none at all.
What a surprise.
Your observation is correct. My FAIL on that rhetorical point, but it made you think!
democrats are willing to give this country to the towelheads to achieve their goal of destroying this country.
We are very close to passing legislation to allow conceal carry without a license.
Democrats oppose legislation that would ban Islamic sharia law from state courts
How do they feel about Canon law?
I may go to S. Carolina to see my son and his wife (and my granddaughter) next month and have checked the FOPA laws to ensure I transport it in my car withing "legal" bounds. The more States that start to follow the true intent of the 2nd Amendment, the better....
What is current SC law on open carry?
“Well, I guess that taught the GOP a lesson they will never forget.”
Your angst is sorely misguided Doug. Romney didn’t lose because of a few FReepers’ posts...or a few conservatives staying home election night.
He lost because of a piss-poor campaign. He and his advisors wimped out when the Democratic and kneepad media lies went flying. Obvious and pervasive voter fraud was never challenged by the GOPe. Voter intimidation by the black panthers was never challenged (maybe the BP was the reason many conservatives felt forced not to vote, ever think of that?). And FOX did not help in any meaningful way either. Remember the military ballots that never reached our shores? Funny, I don’t remember Rove or Preibus or Will or Kelly or Romney making a stink about that absolute atrocity, not to mention the slap in the face of our soldiers.
All the same goes for the McCain campaign as well.
Republicans lose presidential elections because they are losers. Period.
Deport those DemocRATS to Saudi Arabia, AFTER you strip them of their United States Citizenship !
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