Judge rules ban on Sharia Law unacceptable.

@Raw- I'll admit what you quoted made me seethe with rage.

edited 9th Nov '10 6:51:56 PM by rmctagg09

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

The stunts in the great anti-Islam pogromesque fad going on in this fine country of ours. Hoo boy.

I shall express my feelings on this ruling with Wakfu.

Wonderful series.

'''YOU SEE THIS DOG I'M PETTING? THAT WAS COURAGE WOLF.Cute, isn't he?

Sharia Law is already not recognized in the American court system, it never has been, so why do we need a law for any reason other than to snub Muslims and prevent people from using it as a defense to a jury?

Of course there are idiot jurors out there who would say "Well, he was acting under the rules of his religion, so we can't punish him too harshly for killing his daughter." Or something to the fashion of that.

I'd rather we had a Supreme Court Statement that religious laws and rules have no bearing on the law of the land. Government Law > Religious Law, so long as you live here.

edited 10th Nov '10 4:18:42 AM by Barkey

Quoted for truth. But sicne when do the jurors have any bearing on the sentence?

'''YOU SEE THIS DOG I'M PETTING? THAT WAS COURAGE WOLF.Cute, isn't he?

A judge could just state that religious laws can have no bearing on sentences and that the jury should completely ignore it. God told me to is not an effective defense.

^^ A number of states have laws permitting the jury in a trial by jury to determine the punishments carried out by a conviction by jury. Vermont is one such place.

I dislike jury trials in the first place but anyway, for the topic at hand, i don't think the law is necessary. Unless you feel like banning jewish, catholic and the myriad number of different protestant systems, it doesn't really make sense to specifically ban Sharia law.

^^^^ Well that's why you get 12 of them and they are meant to be "of your peers".

Oh, but it makes perfect sense in a nation where people are pissing their pants over the fear that the secretmuslim president is going to force an extremist version of sharia law onto us all!

I guess what I'm trying to say, without being overly harsh and sarcastic, is that people are fucking paranoid.