Why is the media so one-sided in favor of protecting Islamic sharia law and its expansion in the United States? via Anti-Sharia law heads to House floor :: WRAL.com.
Raleigh, N.C. — The version of a bill
intended to protect the constitutional rights of North Carolinians from
“foreign laws” is on its way to the House floor after a contentious
hearing in the House Judiciary C Committee.
House Bill 695, entitled “Foreign
Laws/Protect Constitutional Rights,” is the most recent iteration of
legislation intended to keep courts from recognizing Islamic Sharia law
in North Carolina.
Similar measures have been filed or considered in more than 30 other states, but only a few states have voted them into law.
The first version of the legislation was
passed by ballot initiative in Oklahoma. It specifically named Sharia
and was promptly blocked by a judge who declared it unconstitutional
because it singled out a religion.
Since then, newer versions of the measure
in states from Arkansas to Florida have been more carefully worded.
House Bill 695 makes no mention of religion at all, and it wasn’t
mentioned in committee.
In 2011, Rep. George Cleveland, R-Onslow,
ran the same bill. It, too, passed committee but wasn’t taken up before
the crossover deadline.
At that time, critics and legal experts
warned that the broad language of the bill regarding contracts and
foreign venues or courts could violate international treaties and
admiralty laws and wreak havoc in international business relationships.
The same issues were raised again
Wednesday by Kim Crouch with the North Carolina Bar Association, who
said the association’s Business Law and International Law committees are
opposed to the bill.
“This is not a necessary piece of legislation,” Crouch told the committee, adding that it would raise constitutional concerns.
The North Carolina Values Coalition spoke
in favor of the bill. “We do want to protect our citizens,” said Laura
McGee. “This bill re-clarifies that.”
After House Rules Committee Chairman Tim
Moore signaled that the bill was unlikely to pass, Cleveland and
co-sponsor Rep. Chris Whitmire, R-Transylvania, agreed to amend it so
that it would apply only to family law and child custody issues under
sections 50 and 50a of state law.
Moore, R-Cleveland, who crafted the
change, said it should reduce the chances of unintended consequences in
the business community.
“I think this covers what the bill
sponsors are trying to do. There’s no reason foreign law should be used
in such matters,” he said.
After the meeting, Moore said he didn’t
know of any cases in which North Carolina courts have allowed Sharia or
any other foreign laws to infringe on anyone’s constitutional rights,
but he said the sponsors were trying to prevent that from happening.
The danger of the encroachment of Sharia
law is a popular topic on right-wing radio and blogs, but to date,
there’s little evidence that it’s actually happening. Muslim groups say
it’s a scare tactic used by anti-Muslim activists.
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She surely won’t acknowledge the dozens of jihadists arrested in North Carolina plotting jihad and espousing sharia law. One North Carolina citizen deemed so dangerous due to his defense of sharia law that Obama killed him in a drone strike.
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