People of America, play close f**kin' attention. DO NOT, under ANY circumstances allow sharia law in America.
You will be lied to, and told that it's just for Muslims who have a minor business dispute, and who want to avoid the costs of lawyers and trials. They say that any current binding arbitration processes currently in use are just not culturally sensitive enough. They will claim that since Jews and native indians have special 'courts' based on religious practices, they should have one too. That denying them would be racist.
Of course we all know that Muslims are not actually a race, but simply a religious group, right?
They will try to snow you on the 'safeguard' that no decision of the Sharia court can be enforced unless a regular court judge signs off on it. Well here is your problem. A Sharia court can order executions,and limb amputations, with the punishments to be enforced when someone leaves the U.S. and lands in say Saudi Arabia. Pay attention to this example closely......
Two Muslim businessmen are engaged in a heated argument over a business deal. Upset by the argument, businessman 'A' insults the teenage daughter of businessman 'B', saying she has slept around. Mr. 'B' demands his day in Sharia court, as his family's honor has been insulted!
Come trial day, and surprise Mr. 'A' produces half a dozen young men saying they have indeed been intimate with the young lady in question. Mr. 'A'has won his case, and Mr. 'B' with the daughter is left to pay the court costs right? Wellllll, not so fast.
The court has heard evidence of sex before marriage, and cannot ignore the behavior. In finding for Mr. 'A', it notes that the young lady must also be stoned to death. Well hold on a second, no U.S. judge is going to sentence a teenaged girl to death by stoning for premarital sex, right? If that's the case, then no one has actually 'won' the lawsuit, since there is no enforceable verdict, right? They are stuck in legal limbo, right?
Welll, again, not so fast. If you said to a Christian or Jewish judge in the U.S. "Here, sign the verdict for stoning and for the original lawsuit", they would refuse. Since stoning to death is not on the books in the U.S, they would refuse to sign such a verdict.
What if the judge however is a Muslim? Maybe a member of the mosque holding the Sharia court? The mosque says ok, we promise not to kill her here in America, but we need to move the case out of limbo, and you understand the religious nuances and issues here better than most. Assured that she will not be harmed in America, he signs off on the judgement.
NOW, like any good Muslim, our young lady makes her religious pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. A trip every Muslim is expected to take at least once in their lifetime. When her plane lands, she is met by the Saudi religious police. They have been given the information on her case by the imam of her mosque, and they are the ones who will carry out the death sentence. Remember, the mosque said she would not be killed in America. If she travels to any fundamentalist Muslim country however, she is liable to the punishments as set forth in the judgement.
Same applies to someone who stole. The Sharia court could order amputation for theft. Again no U.S. judge is going to sign off on that unless he is a Muslim judge, and agrees with such punishments, but only outside the U.S. So, our thief goes to Pakistan or Afghanistan, or any other Muslim country, and comes home with one less hand! Maybe even loses a foot.
Sharia also treats women with no respect. In the case of legal matters, a woman is only thought of to be half as smart as a man, so it takes the testimony of two women to equal the testimony of one man. In the case of property rights, the Koran explains how wealth of the man is to be distributed upon his death, regardless if he has a will. The problem here is that the math in the Koran adds up to more than 100% when splitting up the estate, so women have to fight for their share.
What is of note is that should an infidel (non-Muslim) get into a dispute with a Muslim, and agrees to use a Sharia court, then you agree to be bound by decisions of the court. You throw away the legal protections of a U.S. court. Should the case not go your way, you can't say "Oh this is crap, we're going to a real court..." and refuse to accept the judgement. You got played by a system you know nothing about.
Edited by
mikeybgood1
on Mon 09/07/15 10:25 PM