Texas bans Sharia laws

theophilus

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steko said:
It's 20 F, here this morning. That's too cold for me.
Got th' wood stove cranked up.
I was laying on a towel on it last night. Gets th' core warmed up...fast!
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It was 15 degrees here this morning (North Carolina)! My 85 degree waterbed looks like a cat cemetery.

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Tambora said:
• Theft is punishable by amputation of the right hand (above).
• Criticizing or denying any part of the Quran is punishable by death.
• Criticizing or denying Muhammad is a prophet is punishable by death.
• Criticizing or denying Allah, the moon god of Islam is punishable by death.
• A Muslim who becomes a non-Muslim is punishable by death.
• A non-Muslim who leads a Muslim away from Islam is punishable by death.
• A non-Muslim man who marries a Muslim woman is punishable by death.
• A man can marry an infant girl and consummate the marriage when she is 9 years old.
• Girls’ clitoris should be cut (per Muhammad’s words in Book 41, Kitab Al-Adab, Hadith 5251).
• A woman can have 1 husband, but a man can have up to 4 wives; Muhammad can have more.
• A man can unilaterally divorce his wife but a woman needs her husband’s consent to divorce.
• A man can beat his wife for insubordination.
• Testimonies of four male witnesses are required to prove rape against a woman.
• A woman who has been raped cannot testify in court against her rapist(s).
• A woman’s testimony in court, allowed only in property cases, carries half the weight of a man’s.
• A female heir inherits half of what a male heir inherits.
• A woman cannot drive a car, as it leads to fitnah (upheaval).
• A woman cannot speak alone to a man who is not her husband or relative.
• Meat to be eaten must come from animals that have been sacrificed to Allah – i.e., be Halal.
• Muslims should engage in Taqiyya and lie to non-Muslims to advance Islam.
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Their loophole.
 
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http://www.chron.com/news/kilday-hart/article/Texas-lawmakers-study-ban-on-Sharia-law-3220099.php

I contacted Pat Carlson, who recently resigned from Eagle Forum to run for the Texas House in North Texas. She replied with an email mentioning two cases in Texas in which Sharia was invoked. One case was overturned on appeal; the other involved an agreement reached in voluntary arbitration.

So why is this such a pressing issue? Huffman told me she asked for hearings because she knew lawmakers would be asked to cast votes on it next session.

"It just seemed to me that we an interim study needed to be done to listen to the different viewpoints," said Huffman, a former Harris County judge. While she couldn't cite a specific instance in which Sharia had been invoked by a Texas judge, she said a hearing would bring clarity to the issue.

I called Mustafa Carroll, the Houston spokesman for Council on American-Islamic Relations, and told him the Texas Senate had planned on study on Sharia and Texas family courts. Chuckling erupted over the phone line.

"I didn't mean to laugh, but it's just unbelievable," he said. "It's a red herring."

Carroll compared Sharia to the Ten Commandments: "It has no impact on anyone but those determined to follow it."

Some have cited cases involving divorces, but Carroll said a premarital pact involving Sharia would not affect outsiders. "When some movie star signs a pre-nup, it doesn't affect me," he reasoned.

'Creeping Sharia'

At a recent symposium at Rice University, M.A. Muqtedar Kahn, a University of Delaware professor, suggested that Islamaphobia fueled the fear of "creeping Sharia." Given that we elect our judges in Texas, it seems unlikely that Sharia will ever have a major impact on jurisprudence here.

Carroll suggested there are more pressing issues that should draw the attention of the Texas Senate's interim studies: "They better figure out how to get the 34 percent of kids who are dropping out to stay in school.
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