A Florida appeals court has rejected a request to block a Hillsborough judge from upholding Islamic law in a case involving the former trustees of a local Tampa mosque that has garnered the national spotlight.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/25/florida-appeals-court-rejects-petition-to-block-judge-from-imposing-islamic-law/

 

 

And analysis on this case from a legal analyst/blogger…

“The Case Should Proceed Under Ecclesiastical Islamic Law” 

I think the court erred, not in being open to enforcing a religious arbitration decision, but in proposing to use “ecclesiastical Islamic law” to evaluate the validity of the “dispute resolution procedures” that were used.

http://volokh.com/2011/10/26/“the-case-should-proceed-under-ecclesiastical-islamic-law”-jews-ketubahs-and-gets/#more-52120

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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