Court Blocks Amendment That Blocks Courts from Considering Islamic Law

by Stephan Tawney on November 8, 2010

Apparently there’s merit to the idea that it’s unconstitutional to stand up for the United States Constitution. A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction against a voter-approved amendment in Oklahoma that blocked state courts from considering Islamic law in making decisions.

OKLAHOMA CITY — A temporary restraining order has been issued to block a state constitutional amendment that prohibits state courts from considering international or Islamic law when deciding cases.

U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange handed down the ruling Monday morning in Oklahoma City following a brief hearing.

The order will remain in effect until a Nov. 22 hearing on a requested preliminary injunction. It prevents the state election board from certifying the results of Tuesday’s general election in which the amendment was approved by 70 percent of the voters.

The order was sought in a lawsuit by Oklahoma Muslim Muneer Awad. Awad is executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Oklahoma and said during the hearing that the law stigmatizes his religion.

It stigmatizes his religion by blocking state courts from considering anything other than American law? Apparently we need to be tolerant of his religion by allowing American courts to use Islamic law in handing down rulings.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, by the way, was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case. It’s effectively a radical Islamic group.

The Islamization of the American justice system continues.

More: Judge Miles-LaGrange was appointed by Bill Clinton and confirmed by the Democratic-held Senate in 1994.



Leave a Reply