Move your lips as you read "But the imams that run the panel do not usurp state or federal law.
Post it as often as you want, it will never be true in TX, or anywhere else in the U.S.
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Post it as often as you want, it will never be true in TX, or anywhere else in the U.S.
Still waiting for Jade Helm to work it's way to IN?
Quote:The Truth About the Islamic Tribunal
Paranoia and fear mongering gave birth to a myth about extra-Constitutional Islamic tribunals operating in Texas. No matter how often it’s been debunked by local and national media, the story keeps popping up and attracting hate groups along the way.
The pernicious and undying nature of the Sharia Law rumor is why we’re naming the fable the 2015 Texas Hoax of the Year.
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas...716157.php
An Islamic tribunal does operate in the Dallas area, and has done so for several years. But the imams that run the panel do not usurp state or federal law. What exists is a forum where Islamic scholars help settle business disputes and other non-criminal matters. The rulings are nonbinding and work within the guidelines of U.S. law.
This is explicitly stated on the tribunal’s website: “These proceedings must be conducted in accordance with the law of the land; local, state and federal within the United States.”
Similar religious mediation services exist throughout the U.S. – for Christians, Jews and other devout worshipers – as a way to avoid heading to a civil court. These panels prevent private matters from turning into expensive, public affairs.
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Since 1925, when Congress enacted the Federal Arbitration Act, U.S. law has been very open to the idea of private dispute resolution, said Lee Ann Bambach, a Georgia-based attorney who has a Ph. D in religion from Emory University. Her dissertation was titled "Faith-Based Arbitration by Muslims in an American Context."
“Those who would jump up and down about these so-called Sharia courts, which are really just alternative dispute resolution forums, will speak very highly of Christian reconciliation,” which is based on Biblical teachings, Bambach said.
The Islamic tribunals can benefit Muslim women by allowing them to receive a religious divorce. A women can receive a divorce from a U.S. civil court, but if she wants to remarry in the faith, then a religious divorce is warranted.
In cases where the husband does not want to grant a divorce, a Muslim woman can make a case to a tribunal, but they are not always granted. Religious courts in Catholicism and Judaism perform similar acts for observers.
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