Sarah Palin's sharia-free Alaska

Apologies to Sarah, but it seemed a good fit when I wrote it. 

Our 50th state is seeing the light of a sharia-free future, but those pesky people at CAIR and the local Muslims are trotting out the victimization card once again, calling the hearing "divisive."  If there is anything divisive it is the lies and misdirection practiced by Islam and it's apologists, perpetuated by Muslims who use the word of Allah to murder.

At least in this instance we heard voices of reason and honesty: Pam Geller and Nonie Darwish.  Bringing up uncomfortable points and exposing them to the scurtiny and light of day should help the lawmakers in Alaska to do the right thing and make sure sharia law never takes hold, but with their Assistant Attorney General Mary Ellen Beardsley saying "I've had difficulty figuring out how it(sharia) could ever be applied..." the disconnect between reality and ignorance may be too wide a gap to bridge.


From The News Tibune April 1 by Sean Cockerham

Palmer lawmaker's bill aimed at Islamic law called divisive

JUNEAU -- Palmer Republican Rep. Carl Gatto has set off a political firestorm with a bill aimed at stopping what he deems as the potential of Islamic religious law -- Sharia -- trumping the U.S. Constitution in Alaska courts.

Gatto said he has strong support of Mat-Su area tea party groups and has received nearly 500 emails and phone calls from places like New Zealand, Poland and Israel in support of his bill. It's part of a push nationally by conservative state legislators, with similar measures introduced in more than a dozen states.

A Muslim group in Anchorage says Gatto is spreading an anti-Islam message and the Alaska Civil Liberties Union argues the bill could have unintended legal consequences. The Alaska Department of Law, meanwhile, testified it's hard to see the bill having any real effect as U.S. law already reigns supreme in Alaska's courts.

So far US law reigns supreme, but the creep of sharia is becoming a gallop and the future is looking less rosy.

(.)"I'm more concerned about cultures that are vastly different from European immigrants, who come here and prefer to maintain their specific laws from their previous countries, which are in violent conflict with American law," Gatto said.

"That's the issue that I am worried about."

Gatto's proposal, House Bill 88, says Alaska courts can't apply foreign law if it would violate an individual's rights guaranteed by the Constitutions of the United States or the state of Alaska. Gatto doesn't have examples of Alaska courts imposing Islamic Sharia law but said his bill is determined to make sure that it doesn't happen.

A member of the Islamic Community Center of Alaska sent an email addressed to Gatto saying 4,000 to 6,000 Muslims live peacefully in Alaska and asking him to "please do not ignite hate and misunderstanding." Another Muslim from Anchorage, Lamin Jobarteh, said Muslims follow U.S. law. There is no Sharia law in Alaska, he said.

Veiled threat alert.

(.)The Council on American-Islamic Relations called on Gatto to drop his invitation for Stop Islamization of America Executive Director Pamela Geller to testify at a Wednesday hearing on his bill, saying she leads a hate group.

Gatto shrugged off the request. "Anybody can make a statement that if they are opposed to your point of view they're a hate group," he said.

Bravo for telling the truth, Gatto.

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