A current court case in Kansas, Hamdeh v. Hamdeh, before the Eighteenth Judicial District Court for the County of Sedgwick, illustrates why American Laws for American Courts legislation, is needed to protect the constitutional rights of Americans, especially women and children, who face the threat of foreign law being applied to deny their fundamental constitutional [...]
PDF In February, 2012, CAIR produced a 38-page legislative lobbying kit to help Muslims lobby against “American Laws for American Courts” legislation that is being considered in 22 states. It can be downloaded from the Internet at: http://www.cair.com/portals/0/pdf/CAIR-Securing-Religious-Liberty-Handbook.pdf
CAIR’s recommended tactics and talking points reflect an effort to obscure the true nature of Sharia Law and, [...]
Currently an estimated 2.6 million observant Muslims reside in the United States. Many live their lives according to sharia law, the moral and religious code of the Islamic faith. When Muslims bring legal disputes into U.S. courts, a legal dilemma often arises, pitting individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and laws against Islamic sharia [...]
SB79 – is common-sense legislation that protects Kansans’ individual constitutional rights from foreign laws or legal doctrines where the application of those laws/doctrines would violate those constitutional rights.
The bill is scheduled for floor votes on April 26th, after the Kansas legislature re-convenes on the 25th.
The Louisiana House of Representatives has passed HB759 by Rep. Nancy Landry, which creates the crime of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the state of Louisiana.
FGM is a procedure mandated by some schools of jurisprudence under Shariah law.
By Karen Lugo
If America is going to fare better than Europe in halting the development of a de facto sharia society, the unabashed efforts of Muslims who understand the unique value of America’s legacy of liberty will be crucial. Estimates indicate that more than half of American Muslims are quietly appreciative of constitutionally guaranteed [...]
By Karen Carpenter Lugo
Question: Whether the American Law for American Courts (ALAC) Act, as adopted by state legislatures, will interfere with international child adoptions:
Short Answer: If implemented as written, ALAC will simply reinforce American constitutional protections and will not complicate legal processes like those involved in international adoptions:
1. ALAC will not interfere [...]
Below is my translation of an Arabic-language paper published by the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) in 2007, and presented at their 2008 careers conference in Houston, which provides guidelines for American Muslims on what they can and cannot do vis-à-vis infidel legal systems. The paper makes clear that according [...]
The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) cautioned American Muslims in a 22-page Arabic-language paper in 2008 against working in law enforcement in countries which do not rule by Allah’s dictates. One of their main concerns was that such work might cause Muslims to gain love and respect for secular laws:
The Legislature in Alabama, the home state of perhaps the single most prominent American-born jihadi, is poised to become the latest in a line of states outlawing the application of foreign laws in American courts if those laws violate American constitutional rights. The laws are desperately needed: Confused American trial court judges are surprisingly susceptible [...]
