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US civil rights groups decry 'anti-Muslim' bill in Idaho |
2018-03-01 |
[Al Jazeera] A spate of bills in state legislatures across the United States have been decried by civil rights groups as Islamophobic. Most recently, the Council on American-Islamic Relations CAIR ...designated a terrorist group by the UAE... ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... (CAIR), a Washington, DC-based Moslem civil rights group, has called on Idaho's Senate to vote against a bill recently passed by the state's House of Representatives that seeks to ban the implementation of "foreign law" in the state. According to CAIR, the bill, known as HB-419, targets Moslems and fits into a long pattern of "unconstitutional" bills that demonise Moslems by barring Sharia, or Islamic law. HB-419 was passed by Idaho's House of Representatives at a time when similar bills are being considered in several US states, including Montana, Oregon and Wisconsin. In an open letter to Idaho State Senator Jeff C Siddoway, Chairman of the Senate State Affairs Committee, CAIR's Government Affairs Director, Robert McCaw, described HB-419 as "contrary to our nation's values of not elevating or marginalising one faith or community". |
Posted by:Fred |
#2 Link to Idaho House Bill 419 Interesting to note that the text is worded rather specifically to foreign law: "It shall be the public policy of this state to protect its citizens from the application of foreign laws when the application of foreign law will result in the violation of a fundamental right guaranteed by the constitution of the United States or the constitution of the state of Idaho" But: "foreign law" shall not mean, nor shall it include, any laws of the Indian tribes in this state. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2018-03-01 13:06 |
#1 and only one system of laws and enforcement, assholes |
Posted by: Frank G 2018-03-01 06:11 |