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Alabama voters approve law banning Sharia

Nov 8, 2014 8:39 am By Robert Spencer

Hamas-linked CAIR and other Islamic supremacist groups claim that such laws infringe upon Muslims’ religious freedom. In reality, neither Alabama nor any other state would be contemplating anti-Sharia laws were it not for Sharia’s political and supremacist aspects, and its elements that are at variance with Constitutional freedoms — notably, its denial of the freedom of speech and the freedom of conscience, and of equality of rights for women and non-Muslims. But American judges rarely give the anti-Sharia side a fair hearing, and generally strike down such laws on the spurious grounds that they violate the First Amendment, without considering Sharia’s political, authoritarian or supremacist aspects in any way.

“Alabama Sharia Law 2014: Voters Approve Foreign Law Prohibition,” by Kathleen Caulderwood, International Business Times, November 4, 2014:

Alabama voters passed a constitutional amendment Tuesday to prohibit the use of foreign laws in state courts. Republican state Sen. Gerald Allen, who is also a Baptist deacon, sponsored the amendment. He proposed a similar measure in 2011. It never made the ballot since it made specific mention of Islamic Sharia law, which was deemed a violation of the Constitution. A similar measure was also rejected in Oklahoma last year for the same reason, though the judge who struck it down acknowledged that if the term “Sharia” was removed it could solve the problem.

Amendment One, or “American and Alabama Laws and Alabama Courts Amendment,” bars state courts from applying “any law, rule or legal code system used outside of the United States or by any other people, group or culture different from the people of the United States or the States of Alabama.” Sharia refers, in general, to moral code and religious laws of Islam, drawn from the Quran and Sunna. In recent years, dozens of states have proposed measures to keep judges from consulting this and other foreign laws, with varying degrees of success.

This time around, Allen’s new bill made no mention of the Islamic term specifically, and he was confident it would appeal to voters’ conservative values. “It took several times to rewrite the bill itself, to make sure it was correct and to make sure it would be constitutional,” Allen said on Alabama Public Radio last week. “We as a legislature felt like it’s important to bring this before the people of Alabama to let their voice be heard because we’re living in a changing world.”…

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  1. John C. Barile says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 8:52 am

    Great. A reaffirmation of a state’s guiding principles is just what the people need. CAIR/HAMAS be damned.

    • Jae M says

      Nov 9, 2014 at 4:07 pm

      Yes! This is a wonderful model for all other states to follow. In fact all Countries need to do this before they lose their freedoms. Canada, Australia and Europe listen up!!! (Might be too late for UK…unless they wake up very, very soon).

  2. Ric says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 9:35 am

    Good for the folks of Alabama. I am sure Obama and his comrades will do their utmost to overturn the will of the people of Alabama. The so-called Commander-in-Chief has done his utmost to undermine the Constitution and has two more years to undermine the nation even more so.

  3. mortimer says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 10:03 am

    One of the greatest evils in Islam is cousin marriage because it imposes complete control of the wife and leads to many honor killings. Without the ability to escape a marriage, a woman has no alternative besides suicide. The risk of genetic defects in Muslims is extremely high after 50 generations of cousin marriage.

    Cousin marriage should be banned everywhere. It is Islam’s secret sociological weapon. Islam will dwindle rapidly without it.

  4. Jack Holan says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 10:30 am

    I don’t even know why it is necessary to take an affirmative action when there is US Constitutional precepts, precedent laws, State Constitutional law and separation of “Church and State”. The other aspect is that Sharia does not apply its own internal laws equally and the majority of its laws would be unconstitutional. I suppose it can’t hurt to protect against some activist judge.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Nov 9, 2014 at 8:09 am

      You wrote – “I suppose it can’t hurt to protect against some activist judge.”

      Precisely.

      This is, so to speak, a firewall. Or, to vary the metaphor, a sort of flanking movement.

      Muslims have been “gaming the system” in the West , very cleverly. But now the infidels are starting to figure that out, and are getting ready to make some moves, themselves.

      It’s about time that Infidels **took back** their own systems – systems that they (the infidels) created in the first place – and began to use them to pushback against Islamic infiltration and subversion.

      Ever had a look at what Gavin Boby’s Law and Freedom Foundation is doing in the UK? Very peacefully, patiently and persistently, by local action at local government level, using local laws, they are fighting back against the continual building of mosques…that is, against the proliferation of Muslim military bases/ gang hideouts-cum-rallying-points. And…they are chalking up runs on the board.

      Every mosque that doesn’t get built, matters, because it slows down the physical and numerical expansion of Islam, buying time to allow for all the *other* Infidel resistance actions to get under way.

  5. bicky says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 10:34 am

    Great news !!!! I am having orgasmic ecstasy on hearing this.

    • Jack Holan says

      Nov 9, 2014 at 3:28 pm

      Besides have they heard of the US Constitution, Bill of Rights, Precedent Case Law, State Constitution and State, Precedent Law. We aren’t inserting a religious code at best represents 1-3% of the population and apply it to the remaining 97% when those folks have a different religion. Also Sharia would not pass the US Constitution nor Bill of Rights since you have classified rights based on religion Muslim and then the infidel.

      • mach37 says

        Nov 9, 2014 at 5:33 pm

        Jack, at the rate Muslims are propagating in Europe they will soon outnumber other religions, enough to change the laws to favor Sharia. In the US they are successfully changing the laws to favor Sharia because, even though they are in a very small minority nationwide, they are rapidly gaining percentages in large city populations which control much of the law.

  6. Lee Hicks says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 11:33 am

    This should absolutely be a federal law, encompassing not only Sharia, but every other legal system in the world. Nothing can or should trump the Constitution here, and Sharia is simply the most obvious and glaring example of this principle.

    • Jack Holan says

      Nov 9, 2014 at 3:43 pm

      Lee you might want to reconsider to a certain extent. Our basic laws are based upon the Judeo-Christian ethic/laws. The difference with Sharia is obvious. Ours is a universal message applying to all whereas their message is for the Muslim only.

      • mach37 says

        Nov 9, 2014 at 5:18 pm

        Jack, the difference between western nations’ laws and Sharia law is NOT so obvious, if people grant the “freedom of religion” to a religion whose goal is to wipe out all other religions.

  7. UnEasyOne says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 7:25 pm

    I’m a leftist, but I’ve been anti islam for over 50 years. Even so, when I first heard this type of law was being proposed, I thought it was laughable. Stupid. Downright silly, and a waste of time. We have a Constitution, after all.

    Then I started learning about Europe – from the sharia courts in London to the cartoon riots and more. Much more.

    Suddenly, what seemed like mindless bigotry a few years back merely seems prudent. I’d happily vote for a nationwide ban on sharia – for starters. Hell, I would have voted for it then; a) It was harmless and b) I didn’t really care if it annoyed the muslims or not. But I would have thought it pointless. No more.

    I used this fancy computer thingy to EDUCATE MYSELF. It is our task as citizens, whether from the left, right or middle of the spectrum to see that our fellow citizens get that education.

    Here’s the problem: Even as I type, tens of thousands (millions?) of young muslim men are doing the same thing. And they are learning that they are entitled to our property, our freedom and our women by right. Because they are muslim and we are not. Nobody is getting radicalized. They are learning about their religion and their prophet. HE was the radical they are all supposed to follow and imitate.

    • Will says

      Nov 9, 2014 at 7:28 am

      Join the club…many, many agnostic or atheist leftists are jumping onto the anti-Islam tsunami about to hit the world and about time.

      We should be banning all madrassas and any mosque that preaches Sharia or sedition.

      • Tradewinds says

        Nov 9, 2014 at 7:47 am

        “the anti-Islam tsunami about to hit the world and about time”

        That’s right. And as Bob Dylan wrote/sang, “Please get out of the new one
        If you can’t lend your hand/For the times they are a-changin'”

        Read more: Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-changin’ Lyrics | MetroLyrics

  8. Arthur says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 7:41 pm

    Woo hoo!!

  9. susan says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 8:32 pm

    Congratulations Alabama! I am a moderate Democrat and I would definitely vote for a ban on Sharia Law. I resent being called a commie just because I am a Democrat. I hate Islam and everything it stands for. I am a Christian who believes in the separation of church and state. I would like to see all Muslim immigrants sent back to the shit pens they came from.

  10. abad says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 9:33 pm

    It’s a start, good on Alabama. Maybe other states will follow suit. Then we can ban the wickedness of Islam from our nation which will have to be next.

  11. laoch says

    Nov 9, 2014 at 2:14 pm

    I hope the rest of the states in America fallow. But it would be great if all of Europe fallow and had only secular laws . In stayed of giving in to Muslims on every thing.

  12. mach37 says

    Nov 9, 2014 at 3:37 pm

    Islam is anathema to the First Amendment. It is time to start writing your congressmen to declare Islam as a religion not fit to be given First Amendment protection. Islam is a religion that opposes all other religions, and completely negates the freedom of religion aspects of the US constitution.

  13. PatnCats says

    Nov 9, 2014 at 4:58 pm

    For a new biography that tells the TRUTH about the Psychopath Moham, check on amazon for F.W. Burleigh’s “It’s All About Mohammed; the World’s most NOTORIOUS PROPHET.” F.W. has used over 20,000 islamic sources/documents against them to write the truth about that murderous, bastard -the founder of islam insanity – check it out. I got an advance copy to read and I couldn’t put it down.

    • Peter Buckley says

      Nov 9, 2014 at 6:20 pm

      Nice one. Ordered mine.

      I’m sure RS has given out some free copies of his own book on M to “people of influence”. We should be sending free copies of these books so people understand why muslims behave the way they do. It’s a matter of educating journos and politicians so they can start to tell the truth.

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