Via juancole
Michigan State legislator David Agema has introduced an anti-sharia
bill that attempts to ban the implementation of ‘foreign law’ in the US
that would contradict constitutional rights. Agema openly says he
wants to target the Muslim-American community of southeast Michigan,
falsely alleging that there are terrorist cells among them.
Arab-Americans have emerged as an important swing vote in Michigan,
such that Republicans are unwise to complete the job of driving them
into the arms of the Democratic Party. (They had earlier been split,
but because of Bush administration policies and the rise of the Tea
Party, a majority now vote Democratic).
The bill drew a sharp rebuke from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Sharia is the living tradition of Muslim law, analogous to Jewish
Halakha or Roman Catholic canon law. Anti-sharia bills are unnecessary
since the first amendment forbids the government from establishing any
particular religion. Sharia provisions can come into legal judgments
(e.g. if a husband and wife have a pre-nup with sharia provisions
(dowry?) agreed to by both parties, the judge would obviously have to
consider it in a divorce case). The Agema bill could not stop that from
happening, and depending on how it is worded, it is ignorant of the
tradition of Anglo-American common law or it is just unconstitutional.
Cenk Uygur of the Current TV network treats the proposed law with the derision it deserves:
Thursday 13 December 2012
Michigan Republicans propose anti-Sharia law to Discriminate against Muslim Americans
Posted @ 01:22
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Does this mean that legislatures will ban the already implented Noahide laws?
I already know the answer to that one.
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