GOPer can't define, but wants to ban, sharia law

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.salon.com/news/islam/?story=/politics/war_room/2011/03/07/alabama_sharia_ban

A Republican state senator named Gerald Allen, who represents Cottondale and once tried to ban books by gay authors, last week introduced a standard anti-sharia measure that would bar Alabama courts from considering Islamic law. It was at that point that Anniston Star reporter Tim Lockette put a simple but inspired question to Allen: What is sharia?

Here is how Allen responded:

Allen could not readily define Shariah in an interview Thursday. "I don’t have my file in front of me," he said. "I wish I could answer you better."

aking the Alabama story even richer, the Anniston Star also discovered that the text of Allen's anti-sharia bill is lifted directly from Wikipedia. The bill (and Wikipedia) defines sharia as "a form of religious law derived from two primary sources of Islamic law: The divine revelations set forth in the Qur’an and the example set by the Islamic Prophet Muhammad."

[Angry Dragon]

1. They don't know what it is but if they see it then watch out

political scum

[demwing]

2. Sharianography

I cant tell you what it is, but I know it when I see it...

[damntexdem]

3. How much would they sanction following divine revelations vs. following Muhammad?

;-)

And what would they say about following Wikipedia law?

;-)

[Rex]

4. Well of course! That is GOP intellectual power at it's zenith!

That is why America will go to hell in a handbasket if GOPukers ever get in charge again. They stand for nothing but emotional responses.

[madrchsod]

5. muslims can not agree on the definition shariah law.....

[glinda]

6. Most GOPers couldn't pass a College exam.

[emulatorloo]

8. Most GOPers couldn't pass a 3rd grade exam.

[Viking12]

7. Murder is against sharia law...does that mean murder is now legal in AL?

[EC]

9. Why hasn't one reporter ever asked these guys

"Isn't this already covered in the 1st Amendment? The Separation of Church part?

[ThoughtCriminal]

10. The 1st Amendment already bans religious law

But the GOP can NEVER admit that.