Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Oklahoma shows the way (again)
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Bravo for Duncan. The prospect may be numerically remote, but Oklahoma's Mohammedans are important and well-established, which gives them more influence than their numbers might indicate.
How did they get there? OU's petroleum curriculum (started in 1958) attracted vermin from Arab countries and people from Persia, and some of them stayed. Khomeini's 1978 revolution brought a new surge, as Westernized Persians sought refuge in Okla with their already-settled family and friends. Those Persians, with families still suffering under Khomeini's successors, are unlikely to favor sharia, but the Arab vermin will. Count on it. Remember, those Arab vermin in OKC and Norman were responsible for training jihadis like McVeigh and Moussaoui.
Comrade Cohen certainly understands the modern court system. In Primitive Repressive Racist Homophobic Sexist Bigoilist Halliburtonist pre-Soviet cultures, legislatures wrote peculiar old-fashioned texts called "laws", which restricted how a court could decide cases. Under Modern Historically Inevitable Freedom-Loving Progressivism, each judge is a supreme and absolute emperor with total Liberty, never restricted or tied down by quaint risible Victorian concepts like "laws". If a judge's hormone imbalance informs her that today is an excellent day to impose sharia on the country, she is absolutely free to impose sharia on the country, and nobody will dare to stand against her.
Got that right, Comrade Cohen. And I can see the eye-rolling sneer on your contemptuous face when you say "United States values", as opposed to your Progressive "New York values". ¶ 6:06 AM
Oklahoma is poised to become the first state in the nation to ban state judges from relying on Islamic law known as Sharia when deciding cases.
The ban is a cornerstone of a "Save our State" amendment to the Oklahoma constitution that was recently approved by the Legislature.
The amendment -- which also would forbid judges from using international laws as a basis for decisions -- will now be put before Oklahoma's voters in November. Approval is expected.
Oklahoma has few Muslims – only 30,000 out of a population of 3.7 million. The prospect of sharia being applied there seems remote. But a chief architect of the measure, Republican State Rep. Rex Duncan, calls the proposed ban a necessary "preemptive strike" against Islamic law coming to the state.
Bravo for Duncan. The prospect may be numerically remote, but Oklahoma's Mohammedans are important and well-established, which gives them more influence than their numbers might indicate.
How did they get there? OU's petroleum curriculum (started in 1958) attracted vermin from Arab countries and people from Persia, and some of them stayed. Khomeini's 1978 revolution brought a new surge, as Westernized Persians sought refuge in Okla with their already-settled family and friends. Those Persians, with families still suffering under Khomeini's successors, are unlikely to favor sharia, but the Arab vermin will. Count on it. Remember, those Arab vermin in OKC and Norman were responsible for training jihadis like McVeigh and Moussaoui.
Legal experts contacted by ABC News said they did not know of one instance of a judge in the U.S. invoking sharia in rendering a decision.
"Cases of first impression are rare," said Jim Cohen, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law in New York City, adding, "I have never heard of a case" involving sharia.
Cohen added that he questions whether the proposed amendment would pass constitutional muster.
"Our federal system and our state system is in part governed by the concept of separation of powers. It's far from clear that the Oklahoma legislature can restrict what a separate branch of government can consider in terms of doing its job – in this case, deciding cases," he said.
Comrade Cohen certainly understands the modern court system. In Primitive Repressive Racist Homophobic Sexist Bigoilist Halliburtonist pre-Soviet cultures, legislatures wrote peculiar old-fashioned texts called "laws", which restricted how a court could decide cases. Under Modern Historically Inevitable Freedom-Loving Progressivism, each judge is a supreme and absolute emperor with total Liberty, never restricted or tied down by quaint risible Victorian concepts like "laws". If a judge's hormone imbalance informs her that today is an excellent day to impose sharia on the country, she is absolutely free to impose sharia on the country, and nobody will dare to stand against her.
"I think this is a political statement against Muslims and, inferentially, in support of United States values," Cohen said.
Got that right, Comrade Cohen. And I can see the eye-rolling sneer on your contemptuous face when you say "United States values", as opposed to your Progressive "New York values". ¶ 6:06 AM
