Message #4190

[Mark]

Shutting down sharia in U.S.

A California-based constitutional attorney has joined a group in urging state legislatures across the U.S. to pass a law to prevent sharia law from transcending the nation's criminal law.

Karen Lugo, an attorney based in southern California, serves as The Federalist Society's expert on sharia law and was recently appointed to the California Advisory Committee's Commission on Civil Rights. She reports that 25 of the 50 U.S. states have taken it upon themselves to stand up for constitutional freedoms through legislation and court cases, as many state legislators are concerned about a recent ruling from a judge in New Jersey.

"A judge ruled that a former husband was not guilty of **** or violating his former wife's rights when he had harassed her through the period of a separation because the man acted according to what he perceived as his sharia right," Lugo explains.

Even though that judge's ruling was overturned on appeal, it instigated concerns throughout the country.

"Immediately you saw states and legislators become concerned about the fact that in America a judge had gone out of his way to consider a personal affiliation or loyalty to sharia as transcending our own criminal law," the sharia expert notes.


So Lugo has joined a task force in encouraging state lawmakers to approve "American Laws for American Courts," legislation that denies all international law from invading America's constitutional rights.

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