"Unconstitutional" To Ban Islamic Law In U.S. Courts

A renowned Muslim rights group is suing to stop Oklahoma from implementing a voter-approved measure prohibiting state courts from considering Shariah law—the authoritarian doctrine that inspires Islamists and their jihadism—when ruling on cases.

The “anti-Islam” law forbidding judges from contemplating Islamic principles is unconstitutional, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a national organization that serves as the U.S. front for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. On Tuesday Oklahoma voters overwhelmingly approved—by 70%—the constitutional amendment that also bans the consideration of international laws in local cases.

But CAIR claims the measure violates the First Amendment right to freedom of religion because it singles out Islam and is designed to stigmatize Muslims. Implementing it will infringe on the constitutional rights of ordinary Oklahomans in their daily lives, including the right to wear religious head scarves, choose Islamic marriage contracts or to be buried according to one's religious beliefs, according to CAIR.

The politically-connected group further asserts that the Shariah ban was created to harm an “unpopular minority” and its goal is to “stigmatize Islam by establishing in the public’s mind that Islam is something foreign and to be feared.” It also transforms Oklahoma’s constitution into an “enduring condemnation” of the Muslim faith.

Founded in 1994 by three Middle Eastern extremists (Omar Ahmad, Nihad Awad and Rafeeq Jaber), CAIR has extensive links to foreign and domestic Islamists and was a co-conspirator in a federal terror-finance case involving another Hamas front group, Holy Land Foundation. Yet the group remains highly influential with offices throughout the U.S. and substantial power in Washington.
Its lawsuit conveniently fails to mention the well-documented threat of Islamic Shariah law as a non-violent way to destroy the United States. In fact, a few months ago a bipartisan group of highly accomplished military, terrorism and national security experts released an alarming report that refers to Shariah as the “preeminent totalitarian threat of our time.”

Should the Queen Convert to Islam?

Tim the Terror wrote: Oct 2nd 2010 6:22 GMT .I speak as an Englishman - now living in Australia - who first heard an MP by name of Enoch Powell back in the '60's warn Britons that if Asian immigration wasn't drastically reduced there would one day be 'blood flowing in the streets of Britain'
Like others I didn't take too much notice and liked it when I heard others say 'what a tolernt society England was'
After a few years I saw third world conditions starting to blight certain sections of northern towns. A while later militant Moslems demonstrating in the streets and the placards went beyond anti-Israeli sentiments to that of an anti-American AND anti-British vein.
Next it was talk of taking over Buckingham Palace, the need for the Queen to conert to Islam and Sharia Law become the order of the day.'Honour' killings became commonplace and finally British blood was spilt on England's streets with train and bus bombings in London.
Enoch Powell was correct in his prophecy.I am seeing the same thing happening in not only the Anglo-sphere of the English speaking world of America,Britain,Canada,Australia and New Zealnd
but in the Euorpean Western Democratic Societies.

Published in the Economist