Ban on sharia law

A ban on sharia law is legislation that would ban the application or implementation of Islamic law (sharia) in courts in any secular jurisdiction.

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Sharia law and prejudice against Muslim people in the West

There is a view that "Muslim immigrants pose a threat to Judeo-Christian” civilisation stemming from supposedly incompatible cultural values such as Sharia law.[1] Europe is perceived as "being transformed into the Islamic colony of Eurabia which is anti- American, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel, replete with sharia law, shrouded females, etc. In Britain, it is thanks to the efforts of the Daily Mail columnist and author of Londonistan (2006), Melanie Phillips, the late Italian journalist, Oriana Fallaci (2003), and the novelist, Martin Amis (2006), in particular, that such views have been widely propagated and passed into the mainstream. Despite the shakiness of the evidence, the Eurabian construct has also gained serious scholarly support, not least that of the eminent British right-wing historian, Niall Ferguson".[1]

It is claimed that Muslim people who support Sharia law are radicals or Islamofascists.[1]

United States

In November 2010, voters in Oklahoma considered a ballot measure to amend the state constitution to ban sharia from state courts.[2] The measure was overwhelmingly approved by voters[3], then updated to include all foreign or religious laws.[4] The ban was later blocked by a federal judge who ruled it to be unconstitutional.[5]

The sixth article of the U.S. Constitution, and the establishment clause of the Constitution's 1st Amendment already forbid the government from establishing a preference for one religion. Official government endorsement of sharia law is thus already prohibited.

More than two dozen U.S. states have considered measures intended to restrict judges from consulting sharia law. According to David Yerushalmi, one of the leading advocates of such legislation in the U.S., the purpose of the anti-sharia movement is not the legislation which bans consideration of sharia law in the courts, but to attract the attention to sharia in general.[6]

Some Republican members of the United States Congress endorsed a new memorandum, based on a Center for Security Policy (CSP) report, Shariah: The Threat to America, at a press conference in the U.S. Capitol.[7]

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References

  1. ^ a b c www.leftcurve.org/ Ann Rossiter, Nothing but the Same Old Story? Britain’s Wars on Irish and Islamic Terror.
  2. ^ Ure, Laurie (November 1, 2010). "Oklahoma voters face question on Islamic law". CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/28/oklahoma.sharia.question/index.html. Retrieved November 9, 2010. 
  3. ^ "Sharia law banned: Oklahoma to become the first U.S. state to veto use of Islamic code". Daily Mail (London). November 2, 2010. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1325986/Sharia-law-banned-Oklahoma-US-state-veto-Islamic-code.html. 
  4. ^ Tanya Somanader Oklahoma’s New Bill To Block Sharia Law Will Now Ban All Religious Law, Hurt Businesses at ThinkProgress.org blog of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, March 22, 2011
  5. ^ Michel Martin States Move To Ban Islamic Sharia Law at NPR radio network, March 11, 2011
  6. ^ Elliott, Andrea (July 30, 2011). "The Man Behind the Anti-Shariah Movement". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/us/31shariah.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved August 9, 2011. 
  7. ^ Daniel Luban Forget 'Ground Zero Mosque', It's the Great Sharia Conspiracy at Inter Press Service September 16, 2011