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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
The normal people have declared that they don’t want headchopping in their state! The headchoppers are whining that they want to chop a few heads and those eeeevvvviiiilllll Christians and Jews won’t let them.
Listen you headchoppers, get the hell out of our country.
Time to start playing cowboys and muzzies
Where, citing diversity concerns, San Francisco passes legislation that a Koran and a boxcutter must be put in every McDonald's Happy Meal.
So, has anyone asked Obama how he feels about Oklahoma’s decision? Inquiring minds want to know.
I can tell you that my Oklahoma friends could give a rats ass how he feels about it. Especially those un-employed
WHO?
It's been obvious for over a hundred years now that Democrats don't care about the Constitution. Oklahoma is just taking the necessary steps to make sure Sharia isn't implemented in any way, shape or form within her borders.
But they don’t and they won’t.
>> The other 30% are busy gathering stones.<<
It will be dangerous to bring stones to a gun fight.
The real fun comes when somebody tries to cite the Ten Commandments and gets barred.
If only cigarette butts were quarters......
The point is they have abandoned the Constitution and their oaths mean nothing. Character does matter, and rule of law matters, and not just for the unwashed.
We have granted a royalty status to our elected officials, and for the most part the population loves it.
There is absolutely no need to do this - on any level - if Democrats and their judicial renegades who simply submit to the law of the land, the US Constitution!
OH REALLY!!!!! Wake up people.
New Jersey Family Judge Accepts ‘Sharia Defense’ to Excuse Spousal Rape
Published August 09, 2010 by:
Mark Whittington
Apparently, a judge in New Jersey recently refused a woman’s plea to take out a restraining order against her husband, despite the fact that the husband repeatedly engaged in nonconsensual sex with the
woman. In other words, he raped her several times.
The husband and wife are both Muslim, and had been married in Morocco by an arranged marriage before moving to the United States.
According to Eugene Volokh, quoting court records, even though the woman proved that her husband had engaged in nonconsensual sex with her several times, she had not proved that she had been raped, assaulted, or abused, and therefore the request for a restraining order was denied. The reasoning the family law judge, Joseph Charles, used is disquieting to say the least:
“This court does not feel that, under the circumstances, that this defendant had a criminal desire to or intent to sexually assault or to sexually contact the plaintiff when he did. The court believes that he 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 was consistent with his practices and it was something that was not prohibited.”
The “practices” being referred to that “was not prohibited” is the provision in Sharia Law that makes a woman the absolute chattel of her husband, even insofar as sexual relations are concerned. That is to say, the husband had the right to demand sex from his wife, even though she did not want to. In other words, because the husband was a Muslim, he had the legal right to rape his wife.
An appellate court soon reversed Judge Charles’ decision, but the idea that any American judge, no matter who appointed him, would actually rule that Sharia law was a defense for committing a felony should be grounds for impeachment.
Judge Charles’ ruling has created a fire storm, with many people suggesting that a proposal in Oklahoma to forbid the enforcement of Sharia law may not be quite as frivolous as hitherto believed in certain quarters.
GOD I love Oklahoma. Great going folks!!!
So, what, I am anti-Muzzzlum also.
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Michigan.
Sharia law is recognizing the establishment of religion, therefore unconstitutional. Shouldn’t need to be a law. But people are stupid...
BTTT
Obviously...there is a need.
And very proud to do it, regardless of the Oklahoman’s thumbs down.
I do have a question as to how it will affect tribal sovereignty, though. I would expect that the challenge to it will be based on the fact that we already have some carved out exceptions to US law. However, I don’t really know the ins and outs of the relationship between tribal law and US and State law.
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