Analyst's note: Some cases in America are now being decided by edicts from Muhammad. The American people must insist this be stopped. For a recent study see "Shariah Law and American State Courts: An Assessment of State Appellate Court Cases. I agree with Pamella Geller who has stated the following:
"It is setting a very dangerous precedent. Shariah law and U.S. law conflict in numerous ways, including on issues of freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and equality of rights for women. Allowing Shariah to be a determining factor in U.S. courtrooms threatens those rights for all of us."
We also recommend an internal site search on the term "sharia".
"A Florida appeals court has rejected a request to block a Hillsborough judge from upholding Islamic law in a case involving the former trustees of a local Tampa mosque that has garnered the national spotlight.
The state's 2nd District Court of Appeal on Friday denied without comment a petition filed by the mosque, known as the Islamic Education Center of Tampa, which is challenging Hillsborough Circuit Judge Richard Nielsen’s ruling in March that he intended to cite “ecclesiastical Islamic law” in the case, the St. Petersburg Times reported. [....]
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