JUDGE RULES AMERICAN COURTS CAN USE SHARIAH LAW

URGENT: Judge Rules American Courts Can Use Shariah Law for Insane Reason [VIDEO]

Liberal pundits — especially those that appear on Comedy Central after most of us have gone to bed — have long snickered at attempts, both in statehouses and the voting booth, to disallow the use of Shariah law. The liberal party line has always been that such legislation is nothing more than naked Islamophobia, and merely symbolic, since Shariah has no chance of being applied here.

Well, what if I were to tell you it’s already been used in American courts?

In the run-up to Election Day, where Alabama has a measure on the ballot that would ban “foreign law” — including Shariah — from being introduced into their courts, we bring you this from Fox News in 2011. It’s a story about Shariah law being used in a mosque dispute in Florida.

This demonstrates that, far from being symbolic measures meant to horrify and alarm Americans needlessly, laws that disallow Shariah are practical measures which are meant to eliminate the possibility of a two-tier legal system in which Islamic religious law trumps American law. Furthermore, they’re meant to preclude the possibility of creeping religious extremism, where the most extreme measures of Shariah would be sanctioned by U.S. courts.

This clip from The Five on Fox News addresses a 2011 case, where a Florida appeals court granted the request to use Shariah in the case, which dealt with the use of mosque funds. The judge ruled since both sides were Muslims, the dispute could be settled with Islamic religious law as opposed to existing Florida law.

“I think it’s serious and should not be allowed at all,” said co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former lawyer. “This should frighten people that this is even acceptable that a judge says, okay, wait a second, you can use it. It’s not the law of the United States.”

Another co-host, Greg Gutfeld, addressed the bigotry angle in his typical tongue-in-cheek fashion. “I think… everyone knows the practice of law was perfected by sixth century goat herders,” Gutfeld said. “And if you disagree with that, you’re clearly Islamophobic.”

Co-host Eric Bolling summed up why this should be so frightening in a few simple sentences: “Once you open the door to anything, then you can expand [it]. It can be used as precedent. We’ll see it all over the place.”

This is the eventual danger of a creeping two-tier system in which Shariah is given precedence in American courts. Do we really want to see Shariah, with its notoriously objectionable view towards women, given consideration in divorce cases? Or, god forbid, domestic violence cases? That’s just a small step away from what happened in Florida, and that’s why state bans on Shariah are a reasonable step to take to protect the rule of law in the United States.