I’m heading to Florida next week, I wonder if I should force my wife to cover up and walk behind me.
The Florida lawsuit, filed in 2008, concerns, among other things, $2.2 million in state money the Islamic Education Center of Tampa received in an eminent domain settlement when some of its land was used in a road project. Shortly before the case was to go to trial, those who brought the suit sought to have the court enforce an arbitrator’s award reached under Islamic law.
The judge said in a March 3 ruling that he would decide whether the teachings of the Quran were followed properly in the arbitration.
Defending his earlier ruling, Nielsen wrote in his March 22 opinion that it is settled doctrine that religious law can be used is certain disputes between members of a faith.
Sure religious law can be used to settle disputes between members…but not when you involve state or federal courts. In America we do have some “religious laws” on the books, things like Adultery, blue laws, or sodomy laws…but I put the quotes in because while they may be based on laws in such-and-such scripture, or doctrine, they were established in a secular fashion. If an Islamic group wanted to lobby for such-and-such a Sharia law to be placed on the local or federal books, there is a channel for that, but essentially it would need to be voted into law through our secular legal system.
This is not only Bad Justice, but its downright dangerous. let’s hope this Judge is reprimanded, and his decision is overturned, because this is NOT how we conduct justice in America.
