The anti Shari'a movement

NY Times:

Tennessee’s latest woes include high unemployment, continuing foreclosures and a battle over collective-bargaining rights for teachers. But when a Republican representative took the Statehouse floor during a recent hearing, he warned of a new threat to his constituents’ way of life: Islamic law.

The representative, a former fighter pilot named Rick Womick, said he had been studying the Koran. He declared that Shariah, the Islamic code that guides Muslim beliefs and actions, is not just an expression of faith but a political and legal system that seeks world domination. “Folks,” Mr. Womick, 53, said with a sudden pause, “this is not what I call ‘Do unto others what you’d have them do unto you.’ ”

Similar warnings are being issued across the country as Republican presidential candidates, elected officials and activists mobilize against what they describe as the menace of Islamic law in the United States.

Since last year, more than two dozen states have considered measures to restrict judges from consulting Shariah, or foreign and religious laws more generally. The statutes have been enacted in three states so far.

Voters in Oklahoma overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment last November that bans the use of Islamic law in court. And in June, Tennessee passed an antiterrorism law that, in its original iteration, would have empowered the attorney general to designate Islamic groups suspected of terror activity as “Shariah organizations.”

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I never heard of this guy and I have been anti Shari'a for a long time. Shari'a is the basis of cruel and unusual punishments where ever it is able to dominate. Dismemberment and corporal punishment is common in countries that practice Shari'a and in Iran it is the excuse for stoning. It is beyond weird to me that liberals defend Shari'a. They should be trying to get it banned not just in this country but around the world. The same people who freak out over the death penalty in Texas defend Shari'a head choppers.

This article seems typical in its attempt to portray those who oppose Shari'a as bigots who agree with the weirdo Norwegian mass murderer. It is the supporters of Shari'a who have been the biggest mass murderers of recent times. The mass murder for Allah movement is based on their reading of Shari'a. The Times should at least point that out in its lead.