Alabama bill to ban Sharia law was cribbed from Wikipedia

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Alabama bill to ban Sharia law was cribbed from Wikipedia

By Muriel Kane

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“This bill is a PR effort to demonize Islam and Muslims,” the president of the Birmingham Islamic Society told the Star in response. “It is clear there is an effort from some of the pundits in this country to create an attitude of Islamophobia, and I think this is a part of it.”

When asked during an interview to define Sharia, however, Allen was unable to do so. He said that the wording in his bill had been drafted by his legislative staff, but a source on the staff acknowledged that their definition of Sharia had been lifted from Wikipedia.

Allen's bill is very similar to one passed last fall in Oklahoma, which was described by legal experts as amounting to an unconstitutional establishment of religion. Like the Oklahoma law, it would also ban the use of international law in state courts.

A University of Oklahoma law professor called that law as "a mess" and noted, "I would like to see Oklahoma politicians explain if this means that the courts can no longer consider the Ten Commandments. Isn't that a precept of another culture and another nation? The result of this is that judges aren't going to know when and how they can look at sources of American law that were international law in origin."

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/04/alabama-bill-to-ban-sharia-law-was-cribbed-from-wikipedia/