Oklahoma bans Sharia law
The Sooner state struck a “pre-emptive strike” against the looming Muslim takeover on Tuesday when Oklahomans overwhelming voted to amend the state constitution in order to impose a ban on Sharia law.
According to Salon.com,
The measure amends the state constitution to forbid "courts from considering or using Sharia Law." It defines Sharia as Islamic law "based on two principal sources, the Koran and the teaching of Mohammed."
The kicker is that there isn’t one set of rules that can be called Sharia law. History professor and director of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the Naval Academy, Brannon Wheeler, explained that,
"There's no text that is entitled The Shariah," Wheeler said. "It's not a code of law. It's not like you could go to the library and get the 12 volumes of Shariah law."
Instead, Shariah is flexible, and applies differently in different contexts. It comes from clerics' and scholars' interpretations of the Quran and other holy books.
This point was lost on State Representative Rex Duncan who put the issue on the ballot, as can be seen during his Sean Hannity interview about the measure. Well, at least the lawyers will have a field day.
Full story at Salon.com.
