The "Show Me" state says: show me sharia is not a threat and we will not pass legislation that it is

The home state of Harry Truman just got balls.  Add them to the ever-growing list of states wanting to head off the threat of sharia by prohibiting it's use in legal matters.  Sharia is completely incompatibile with the constitution and to allow it any leeway in it's application to legal cases anywhere in the US will result in a faster fall towards an Islamic America.  It gladdens my heart to see more and more states taking pre-emptive action against sharia law.

Now, how do we do the same thing here in Oregon?  Must I take up this banner and run with it?


From the Kansas City Star March 13 by Jason Noble

Missouri legislators, wary of Islamic law, propose banning it

JEFFERSON CITY | Missouri Reps. Paul Curtman and Don Wells agree there’s no evidence that state courts are judging cases based on Islamic principles or foreign laws.

But that’s not stopping them from sponsoring legislation to ban the practice.

Bills introduced this year by the Republican lawmakers aim to prevent Missouri courts from applying laws from other countries or those based on Sharia, the Islamic religious law.

Wells maintains his measure is necessary because an oppressive and violent Islamic legal system is spreading across the world and could someday threaten Missouri.
Curtman’s bill, meanwhile, is less concerned with the encroachment of Islamic law, although its language is a near-exact copy of model legislation from a stridently anti-Muslim source.

Why you anti-Muslim Islamophobe!

Critics in the General Assembly, legal circles and the Muslim community call both measures bigoted and meaningless.

“This is an attack on Islam and clearly an Islamophobia bill,” said Jamilah Nasheed, a St. Louis Democrat who is Muslim. “It’s a bill that’s being pushed by ignorant people that know nothing about Islam.”

That's right, Nasheed.  Blame wanting to stop sharia before it starts on Islamophobia and call people names while accusing them of ignorance, rather than showing how sharia is compatibile with the constitution and showing where Islam is a "religion of peace."  We'll wait....

Similar measures have been considered in a handful of other states, including Oklahoma, where last November, 70 percent of voters approved a constitutional amendment banning the use of Sharia law in state courts. The amendment has since been challenged in federal court as unconstitutional.

Missouri’s debate comes at a time of increasing scrutiny on Muslim Americans nationally and criticism that they’re being unfairly targeted. That discussion peaked last week with a high-profile congressional hearing examining radicalization in the American Muslim community.

The Missouri lawmakers’ bills differ slightly, as does the reasoning behind their introduction.

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