Arkansas GOP targets Sharia law after passing bill to allow rapists to sue their victims for...

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory

Arkansas GOP targets Sharia law after passing bill to allow rapists to sue their victims for abortion


TRAVIS GETTYS
03 FEB 2017 AT 09:47 ET

Republican lawmakers in Arkansas have granted preliminary approval to a bill apparently aimed at Sharia, or Islamic law, after passing a law that would allow fathers and parents to block a woman from having an abortion.

State Rep. Brandt Smith (R-Jonesboro) introduced HB 1041, which won approval Thursday from a House judiciary committee, to “American laws for American courts,” reported the Arkansas Times.

He claims the measure was not specifically aimed at Sharia law, although it’s similar to legislation introduced in other states based on the conspiracy theory that Islamic law is creeping into the American legal system.

Smith also justified his bill to reporters by citing a custody case involving a man from the Middle East who based his claims on Sharia law and then fled the country, and the lawmaker shared the same story when presenting his legislation on the statehouse floor.



Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/arkansas-gop-targets-sharia-law-after-passing-bill-to-allow-rapists-to-sue-their-victims-for-abortion/

[Javaman]

1. I couldn't get past the part about rapists being able to sue victims.

WTF?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Fetuses will be supported over children every time possible.

Children and women don't count for christo-fascists.

[smirkymonkey]

8. This is so spot on!

[Megahurtz]

18. This will encourage women

not to report rapes even more. And it's probably the intention of the sick perverted psychopath who wrote the bill.

[Chicago1980]

2. When and where is Sharia Law practiced in Amerikkka?

[DK504]

3. In the comb over state.

[Chicago1980]

14. bwahaha

[wordpix]

20. lol

[starshine00]

15. as yet it isn't but many conservative muslims advocate it

most notably lately the co-organizer of the women's march Linda Sarsour, who sings the praises of it on twitter because of such reasons as they don't allow interest on loans and women get ten months of maternity leave in Saudia Arabia so who cares if they can't drive, etc etc

Here is a good snopes article on the tribunal in Dallas that is popping up in the media now and then http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/shariatexas.asp

Religious cultist overtake of local legal systems is nothing new in the US, we have patriarchal cults all over the country who have done so from Jewish courts in the northeast to FLDS out west and probably and most invisibly christian influence over courts country-wide, which we are about to get very well acquainted with.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Another of the dozens of RW, christain freaks that are running this state.

[Sunny05]

6. Now, this statement I would agree with, b/c

it is, regrettably, accurate in identifying certain "types" who have horrifyingly made it to positions of authority (which should be positions of leadership) and not lumping everyone into one hideous pile.

[Sunny05]

5. Original story

written and published by the non-comb-over owners, editors, and writers of the Arkansas Times, whose readership is comprised of non-comb-overs, some of whom are paying star-or-whatever-it-is-called members of DU.

http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/02/02/committee-approves-bill-targeting-sharia-law-and-other-foreign-jurisprudence

[Lucinda]

9. Thank you!

[Sunny05]

10. Sure thing.

And thank you, too.

[demigoddess]

11. They are just mad that the Sharia law got there first.

they think Islam should be copying them instead of them copying Sharia law.

[Solly Mack]

12. I hate these people.

[starshine00]

13. all abrahamic religious law sucks

all of it. On social issues the majority of muslims are conservative and would end up voting w/ GOP if it weren't for their racism in the form of opposition to islam. My belief is in the end they, like all religious conservatives such as the orthodox & conservative Jews, and evangelical christians, are all going to end up on the same side...it intrigues me as much why the right wants to steer clear of them as much as it does why progressives on the left want to jump into bed with them.

[Blue_Tires]

16. I guess this is what the average Arkansas resident wants?

[Sunny05]

17. Do you mean

average Arkansas based on all Arkansans? Or based on the degree of representation they get (or don't) based on gerrymandering? Or the degree of economic (and hence election influence) they have?

Do you mean the wealthy white ones in NW Arkansas? Wealthy people in parts of Central Arkansas? The 50% to 70% black communities in south and east Arkansas Delta and wetlands regions? The white hillbillies in parts of north central Arkansas? The white nonhillbillies in north central Arkansas? Nonwhites? Perhaps those in the oil business in some southern parts of the state? Members of the Black Legislative Caucus, led by an African American woman? The growing Hispanic populations of some areas, esp NW and central parts of the state?

Or do you have in mind the "comb overs" of mention in DK504's reply?

Because the answer could vary quite a bit depending on which "average" you are talking about.

p.s. I know of no women nor African Americans nor Hispanics who "comb over". Just a thought, though I doubt its significance will sink in on you or your buddy above.

[Blue_Tires]

19. What I meant was

WHY do voters in Arkansas keep voting in clowns like this if these aren't the policies they want?

[wordpix]

21. we need to get control of gerrymandering - this is how R's keep winning

the more they win, the more they gerrymander districts to keep winning

[Sunny05]

22. ? I

I don't know.
I am not one of those voters.
Your re-statement still stereotypes.
See wordpix's reply.
Why did U.S. vote in trump?
Are you in the U.S.? Why did you all vote in someone that?