Sunday, March 25, 2012

Anti-shariah movement

  • (RNS) At this point in 2011, 22 state legislatures had either passed or were considering bills to prohibit judges from considering either Islamic law, known as Shariah, or foreign law in their decisions. What a difference a year can make.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Meet the White Supremacist Leading the GOPs Anti-Sharia Crusade http://tinyurl.com/4amcmex The Man Behind the Anti-Shariah Movement (NY Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/us/31shariah.
  • (CNBC)
  • Among a series of setbacks for the McCarthyist-style anti-Shariah movement, New Jersey became the newest state to drop its ridiculous A-919 bill penned to prohibit the application of foreign laws.
  • (Examiner)
  • Although the bill did not mention sharia law, proponents are part of a national movement against what they see as influence of the traditional Muslim legal code.
  • (Forward)
  • Restricting the consideration of foreign law can be detrimental to trade or international movement, he said founded in 2009 to promote anti-Sharia laws.
  • (MySanAntonio)

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