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Oklahoma’s New Bill To Block Sharia Law Will Now Ban All Religious Law, Hurt Businesses
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Mar 22, 2011 08:16pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Last year, Oklahoma voters overwhelmingly passed State Question 755, a ballot measure barring “state courts from considering international or Islamic law when deciding cases.”
Despite their zeal to root out a nonexistant threat, a federal judge blocked the law for violating the establishment clause of the First Amendment and blatantly targeting the Muslim community. Undeterred by its unconstitutionality, Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern (R) introduced House Bill 1552 this month — a reinvention of SQ 755 that addresses the legal issues holding up SQ 755 by banning the use of all foreign law in Oklahoma courts |
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