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Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

...So now it is unconstitutional to display the Ten Commandments or a cross in a courtroom or any public space, but it is also unconstitutional to bar islamic sharia "law." Both edicts flow from the supposed constitutional requirement not to marginalize...someone, whom I'm not quite sure.

If sharia is a religious concept, then I don't see why it shouldn't be excluded from courtrooms just as our Christian symbols are. Isn't forcing its inclusion the "establishment of religion?" Don't Christians, Jews and atheists have the right to say in a democracy that they prefer not to be judged under the harsh and unfair doctrine of sharia law?

And if it isn't religion but is law, then why doesn't the state of Oklahoma have the right to define what is and isn't the governing legal standard? If Oklahoma voted that the law of France would not be applied, is that also a violation of the Constitution? Or do the french now have less rights than muslims?

It's all very baffling, at least from a legal perspective. Viewed through the perverse lens of PC world however, it makes perfect sense. Muslims have somehow achieved PC nirvana, ie recognition as an officially protected PC class, right up there with blacks, illegal immigrants and gays. The rest of us must now cater to their every demand, no matter how outrageous. It's the law or what passes for the law these days.
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I'm with him.
 
Quote from 377OHMS:

Before it is all over US soccer moms will kill Muslims on sight with their bare hands. :)
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Is that allowed under sharia law? :D
 
Quote from stu:

Perhaps you're baffled because there is no problem.
No Oklahoma vote nor any other has attempted to apply Sharia law nor has anyone used any legal principles, tenets or precepts of it , nor has anyone tried or attempted to establish any ruling whatsoever from any foreign islamic nation or its culture.

There is no case.
You're talking emotional rubbish about muslims getting the whip hand when it's no such thing.

Oklahoma has been found to have voted against this Sharia nonsense for no reason in law, but apparently even that's enough to get you into an overreaction.
Isn’t that what they want ?
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+1 Exactly.



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Quote from pspr:

Is that allowed under sharia law? :D
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I don't think women can do anything but make babies and do the laundry under Sharia law. :)
 
Quote from stu:

Perhaps you're baffled because there is no problem.
No Oklahoma vote nor any other has attempted to apply Sharia law nor has anyone used any legal principles, tenets or precepts of it , nor has anyone tried or attempted to establish any ruling whatsoever from any foreign islamic nation or its culture.

There is no case.
You're talking emotional rubbish about muslims getting the whip hand when it's no such thing.

Oklahoma has been found to have voted against this Sharia nonsense for no reason in law, but apparently even that's enough to get you into an overreaction.
Isn’t that what they want ?
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The idea is to ban it before it's tried. Only the laws of this country apply in it's courts. I fail to see why that's a problem, it saves the courts precious time and resources, from the attempt of defense lawyers to offer Sharia Law as a legal defense. If the person in question has a problem with our laws by all means they can leave.
 
Quote from Wallet:

The idea is to ban it before it's tried. Only the laws of this country apply in it's courts. I fail to see why that's a problem, it saves the courts precious time and resources, from the attempt of defense lawyers to offer Sharia Law as a legal defense. If the person in question has a problem with our laws by all means they can leave.
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Hmm? A 'premptive' strike, that worked well in other arenas, right? Ban stuff, ban anything that we don't understand. Banned in Boston ring a bell? Look, we are not going to Sharia Law, or anything like it, BECAUSE we are a nation of laws, not of fearful ideologies. Let's try to keep it that way. I don't fear Sharia law any more than I fear the Asteroid coming to take the good people to another planet, or that the Mayan calendar and Nostradamus are correct in that they predict the end of time is in December 2012.


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Quote from Lucrum:

I don't think women can do anything but make babies and do the laundry under Sharia law. :)
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I hope they are still allowed to cook. If they can't cook I'll start strangling muslims myself.
 
Quote from cgroupman:

Hmm? A 'premptive' strike, that worked well in other arenas, right? Ban stuff, ban anything that we don't understand. Banned in Boston ring a bell? Look, we are not going to Sharia Law, or anything like it, BECAUSE we are a nation of laws, not of fearful ideologies. Let's try to keep it that way. I don't fear Sharia law any more than I fear the Asteroid coming to take the good people to another planet, or that the Mayan calendar and Nostradamus are correct in that they predict the end of time is in December 2012.


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If the VAST majority of people in Oklahoma want to adopt a law prohibiting other countries laws into their courts, why can't they? The idea that it's never going to happen, therefore it's not a legal issue is bullshit. I don't fear it, and I don't want to try to understand it's archaic repressive background. It's in contrast to our laws. Furthermore I can see banning Sharia Law in a positive light, it makes a statement regarding the violation of Womens rights, possibly even preventing violence.... we have already seen Sharia type violence being carried out on women here.

If you don't like it, don't move to Oklahoma.
 
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