Liberty depends on vigilance: Oklahoma now back at risk of falling to Sharia Law
As longtime DUers know, I've often worried about the threat of extreme Islamic fundamentalism getting a foothold in America, starting with the land of my father and my father's father, Oklahoma (where the wind comes sweeping down the plain). In the past few years brave Republican legislators have taken cautious, yet necessary, steps to save the Sooner State from the spectre of Sharia, even after waves of literally dozens of doctors, dentists, and auto mechanics have swarmed into the state, set down roots, and pursued living their lives according to their monotheistic exoticism. Where will the madness end?
Perhaps not until they cover Lady Liberty in a giant burkha, for even as we speak--or read, or write, or whatever--some fancy shmancy liberal judge from the so-called federal courts had declared, and maybe you should sit down for this, that First Amendment Rights like Freedom of Religion means that the good Christian voters of Oklahoma are not able to discriminate against the lurking behemoth of Islamification, thereby exposing the >99% of nonMuslim Oklahomans to the malicious impulses of the less than 2/10ths of 1% who are possibly plotting to overthrow our nondenomitional God-given way of life. Maybe you think this is overreaction, but all I can argue is, today Oklahoma, tomorrow Kansas!
[font size="4"]Federal Judge Won’t Let Oklahoma Add Anti-Sharia Language To Constitution[/font]
A federal judge in Oklahoma struck down a proposed amendment to the state's constitution Thursday that would ban state courts from considering Sharia and international law, the Huffington Post reported.
The constitutional amendment passed the state legislature in 2010, but Chief District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange issued a restraining order preventing it from taking effect. Miles-LaGrange ruled Thursday that its references to Sharia violated the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
"This law unfairly singled out one faith and one faith only," Ryan Kiesel, executive director of the ACLU of Oklahoma, told the Huffington Post. "This amendment was nothing more than a solution in search of a problem. We're thrilled that it has been struck down."
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