The Center for Security Policy, the 7th Amendment Advocate and The Legal Project of the Middle East Forum presented a discussion on Capitol Hill entitled, “Shariah vs. the Constitution.”
Hat tip to 7th Amendment Advocate blog who writes:
American judges must resist any notion that they should compromise the Constitution to appease Muslims or any other faith.
Watch it all here.
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Over 90% of the “informed” American people on Sharia Law support the removal of Sharia from all Free Societies and the soomer the better.
The US Must Suppress Sharia Law to Uphold Freedom of Religion
By Tawfik Hamid
http://www.tawfikhamid.com
A popular new law that bars Oklahoma courts from considering Islamic law, or Shariah, when deciding cases was put on hold Monday after a prominent Muslim in the state won a temporary restraining order in federal court. This ruling was issued in the name of freedom of religion and minority rights.
U.S. District Court Judge Vicki Miles-LeGrange ruled that the measure, which passed by a large margin in last Tuesday’s elections, would be suspended until a hearing on Nov. 22, when she will listen to arguments on whether the court’s temporary injunction should become permanent.
“Today’s ruling is a reminder of the strength of our nation’s legal system and the protections it grants to religious minorities,” said Muneer Awad, executive director of Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Oklahoma, who filed the suit last Thursday, claiming the law violated his constitutional rights.
“We are humbled by this opportunity to show our fellow Oklahomans that Muslims are their neighbors and that we are committed to upholding the U.S. Constitution and promoting the benefits of a pluralistic society,” Awad said.
Awad’s statement blatantly misrepresents the realities of Sharia law.
Sharia Law advocates the opposite of freedom of religion and minority rights. For instance, one of the fundamental principles of Sharia Law is that Muslims who leave Islam, i.e., apostates, should be killed. Allowing Sharia Law to pertain in US courts completely ignores the rights of the Muslim apostate minority and in so doing endangers their lives.
Imagine that a Muslim apostate was in the court room in the US. If an Islamic Mullah insisted that Shariah law mandates that this apostate be killed, would the judge allow this ruling of Sharia Law? If the judge stopped the killing process, according to the ruling by US District Court Judge Miles-LeGrange, the judge would be limiting the religious freedom of the Mullah. The judge must suppress the “religious freedom” of the Mulla in order to give the apostate his constitutional rights to freedom of religious beliefs. It is impossible to have it both ways: the man will live if the Constitution is regarded as the law, or he will die if Sharia is allowed to overrule the Constitution.
The US courts MUST draw a clear line between parts of acceptable parts of Sharia that are considered personal issues, which are usually not debatable in court rooms, such as washing before prayers and those foundational and fundamental parts of Sharia that promotes violence, discrimination, and gender inequality. These Sharia rules include killing apostates, beating women, stoning of women for adultery, killing homosexuals, accepting slavery, and inequality in inheritance between a man and a woman.
Some may argue that Sharia can be accepted in US courts as there are many interpretations of Sharia Law. This naïve approach ignores the fact that differences in Sharia interpretations are not about the acceptability of violent edicts but rather about details of their implementation. For example, the four main schools of Jurisprudence in Islam are Shafii, Maleki, Hanbali, and Hanafi. Without exception, including in contemporary times, none of these schools of Islamic jurisprudence have ever condemned the punishment of stoning. The views of the four schools of jurisprudence differ only with regard to insignificant issues such as the size of the stones that must be used.
Those who promote the acceptance of Sharia Law in the US need to realize that, not one single approved Sharia Law book clearly rejects the Redda Law (Killing of Muslims who convert to other faith or deny a fundamental part of the religion). Islamic Sharia texts rejecting this inhumane practice does not now exist, and has never existed. The Redda Law is still taught as fundamental part of Sharia, practiced by radical Islamic groups, and is considered the law of the land in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Others may argue that Sharia in the US should be allowed only to influence American courts with regard to regulation of family matters. While this arena may sound innocent, the family practices that Sharia allows and even encourages include beating women, polygamy, and forcing underage girls to marry older men. Women and girls within Islam need American laws to protect them from the injustices of Sharia.
In short, it is impossible to uphold the US constitution and Sharia Law at the same time. It is impossible to accommodate both systems together because the one protects freedom and equality of humans and the second advocates violence and domination.
TaterSalad,
That was an excellent essay by Mr. Hamid. Thanks for showing it to us.
Agree with Damien. Had gone to that blog of Dr Tawfik Hamid. Thanks “TaterSald”.
“In short, it is impossible to uphold the US constitution and Sharia Law at the same time….”
There ya have it! What more needs to be considered? This is the United States, and those that live in this country MUST ABIDE BY THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY, the UNITED STATES!
NO! NO! NO! to sharia law! If Muslims don’t like our rules and laws, then go to a country where they have sharia law!
Excellent indeed, and very clearly explained even for the most brain dead liberal to understand why Sharia cannot be allowed in any sane moral western country… keep Sharia in muslim countries , if they are backward enough to want it..
We need the make our Government pass a law that will fully ban sharia law from our land. You can’t have Freedom of anything under sharia law.
USING THE GOODNESS OF THE QURAN IS THE BEST WAY TO FIGHT THE WRONG TEACHINGS IN THE QURAN AND HADITHS
There are many reasons why I am fully against Sharia laws. The primary reason is, Sharia Laws are against the Quranic rights of humanity to their freedom of religion.
“There is no compulsion in religion. Truth now stands distince from errors.” Al-Baqarah 2:256.
SAME BLOODY FATE AWAITS AMERICANS WHO REFUSE TO CONVERT TO islam IF THE DREADFUL SHARIA LAWS TAKE OVER AMERICA
Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi had refused to convert to islam. So Muslim women ganged up to falsely accuse her of blasphemy. And her case is only the tip of the ice-berg of the countless blasphemy cases non-Muslims often face in the lawless and rabidly islamic Pakistan.
Hundreds of Muslim demonstrators in Lahore threatened violence this week if the victimised Bibi is released.
So if Americans do not rise up to protect and uphold American laws and Constitution against the rising tide of the dreadful Sharia Laws, which are threatening to take over their beloved America, this too will be the bloody fate awaiting all Americans.
Read on—
“Accusers of blashemy [in Pakistan and rabidly islamic countries] often do little more than gather an intimidating group to lodge a claim to frame an innocent person of blasphemy for refusing to convert to islam; and police make an arrest to avert an uprising. Though police are supposed to investigate cases, they chose not to do so.
Lawyers say that was what happened in Bibi’s case, according to Pakistan’s Minorities Minister Mr Bhatti, who is a Christian.
Muslim women had complained Bibi to their cleric, who then gathered a crowd that forced Bibi to the police station, Mr Bhatti said. He said Bibi drew the ire of fellow farmhands after a dispute in June 2009, when they refused to drink water she collected and she refused their demands that she convert to Islam.
So Muslim women in her village near Lahore accused her of speaking ill of the prophet Muhammad. He said police did not investigate and a court, without hearing her full account, handed down a death sentence four months later.
Mr Bhatti said he had concluded that Bibi, a mother of five who has been in prison for 17 months, never criticised Islam and the case against her was riddled with flaws.
In Pakistan, people accused of blasphemy are frequently so threatened that they must leave their towns, and several convicted blasphemers have been killed in jail, said Ali Dayan Hasan, a researcher for Human Rights Watch.
Bibi’s husband and children were in hiding, Mr Bhatti said. ”We are frightened,” Bibi’s husband, Ashiq Masih, a brickmaker, told reporters in Islamabad on Wednesday. ”We are receiving threats, especially from clerics.” ”
From: http://www.theage.com.au/world/blasphemy-case-splits-pakistanis-20101126-18aqg.html
A few weeks ago, I read where a Mass. judge ruled in favor of the muslim husband of a muslim woman seeking a “restraining order” against her husband for beating her and her daughter. Guess what this judge did-ruled in husband’s favor, told him to just not beat her so hard and that was the end of that. Now supposes he kills her under their laws-will the same judge stand by and allow him to go free? I find this appalling in America. This woman sought help from our court system-she lives in America-and this is what she gets. Muslims are known for their push to take over any country they inhabit for the sake of Islam and it’s getting worse in America everyday. Our constitution says no to this. In Australia, they wrote new immigration laws recently for a period of 50 years and it basically says-want to live here, live as we live, learn our language, follow our laws, love Australia or go back where you came from. That is how it’s supposed to be-when in Rome, you do as the Romans do, right??? Now schools are holding 3 week training sessions where our children are saying their prayers, etc. in direct opposition to our christian beliefs-can you beleive this? I would suggest that you check your schools if you have children that age. We must stop this and write it into our immigration laws or something. God bless America-we are a Christian nation, no matter what Obama says and we will stay that way.
This judge needs to be removed from office. Question: would this judge have issued the same “order” if this man/owman were Christian?
Sharia law undoes the precious human rights of centuries of legal progress from the Age of Enlightenment, the Renaissance, the Magna Carta. The best of what English law is, the US Constitution, the contents of the Declaration, all run counter to a religio-legal doctrine from before the middle ages. Anyone who would have the US submit to Sharia commits an act of treason.
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“TAQIYYA—THE ISLAMIC ART OF DECEPTION”.
From: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDPUoTxjcDM
Taqiyya is the islamic art of holy lying because their allah is weak and impotent; not the Omnipotent ALLAH Who had taken Jesus up to Heaven to be with Him (re An-Nisaa 4:158).
HE is the same ALLAH Who had cursed Mohammed to die from eating poisoned goat meat served on him by his young, pretty but vengeful captive Jewish wife whose parents, siblings, husband and people Mohammed and his roving band of jihadists had massacred.
That is why islam is of the divine impostor allah. But ISLAM preached by Jesus in Matthew 7:21-23 is of ALLAH.