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Appeal sought in US Sharia case
[Al Jazeera] The Oklahoma State Election Board has voted to ask the attorney general to appeal a court's decision to grant a preliminary injunction on a ban preventing the use of Sharia and other international laws in the state.The vote comes after the state legislator who wrote the proposal on Tuesday lashed out at the judge who blocked it, calling her a "liberal, activist judge". Rex Duncan, a former Republican state representative, criticised US district judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange's ruling this week to grant a preliminary injunction, preventing the state from certifying the results of the November 2 election. More than 70 per cent of voters approved State Question 755 (the "Save Our State Amendment"), which would place the Islamic (Sharia) law ban into the state constitution. The question proposed to preemptively ban "considering or using" international law and Sharia. Duncan said "one would surmise that her [judge's] sympathies were with the plaintiff". "But hers won't be the final order on the matter," he added. The legislator has charged that Mohammedan rights groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... (CAIR) want to hijack the US legal system. The plaintiff, Muneer Awad, is a Mohammedan living in Oklahoma who claims the proposed ban is unconstitutional. Along with the CAIR in Oklahoma, Awad sued to block the law from taking effect. He argues the ban on Islamic law likely would affect every aspect of his life as well as the execution of his will after his death. Posted by: Fred 2010-12-02 |
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