Bill Would Ban Sharia Law and Advocates from U.S.
Sharia law is a form of Islamic justice often criticized for its brutal physical punishments, including flogging and execution by stoning. Sharia punishment is often enforced against women found guilty of "Haram" offenses such as premarital sex and adultery.
Tancredo's bill would bar foreign nationals who advocate Sharia law from entering the United States and make advocacy of Sharia law a deportable offense.
"Any alien who fails to attest, in accordance with procedures specified by the Secretary of Homeland Security, that the alien will not advocate installing a Sharia law system in the United States is inadmissible.""Advocating the installation of a Sharia law system in the United States shall constitute a ground for revocation of a person's naturalization under this subsection."
The United Kingdom recently declared the decisions of the five Sharia courts operating within the U.K. to be legally enforceable. "Today the British people are learning a hard lesson about the consequences of massive, unrestricted immigration," said Tancredo in a press release.
"When you have an immigration policy that allows for the importation of millions of radical Muslims, you are also importing their radical ideology – an ideology that is fundamentally hostile to the foundations of western democracy – such as gender equality, pluralism, and individual liberty," declared Tancredo.
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I am a believer Muslim. Better late than never – Rep. Tom Tancredo did the right thing. Other countries, specially my home Canada must follow.
This battle cannot be completely won unless common good Muslims are detached from Sharia-Islam. We have enough documents to prove that Sharia-Islam is actually a betrayal to justice, peace, the Quran and Islam. Muslims are its primary victims. We must have a venue to show these to common Muslims.
Keep it up.
Hasan Mahmud.
right on hasan! we need more people like you who know and have maybe experienced sharia law to stand up and let everyone know that it is the wrong kind of law to allow into the usa. i know that the english court has just given the ok for muslims to practice sharia law over there. i feel for the muslim women who must obey this law and are treated as a 2nd class citizen behind men. if these women are living in a free society, so too should they enjoy the same freedoms that every other woman has.
i love tom tancredo. he’s a man with backbone.
Sharia is a scary, dangerous and primitive legal/cultural system. It should be banned from all Western nations.
Furthermore, muslim immigration should be reduced because so many muslims do bring their primitive culture and societal values and behavior with them to the US and other Western countries.
More muslim immigrants = sharia law. Therefore, reduce muslim immigration (in fact, reduce all immigration into the USA for 10 years).
Advocating Sharia law is advocating overthrowing the U.S. government. Tom Tancredo spells it out. We need to recognize this threat and demand passage of this bill.
Thank you, Tom.
If it passes, this could be Tancredo’s legacy. He’s done very little legislatively in the years he’s been in Congress.
Unfortunately, sharia law is already ipso facto in parts of Canada. The U.S. is home to many radical Muslims. What are we doing about it? Are we kicking down doors? No. Why not?
Tancredo sounds as if he is channeling McCarthy. Advocating sharia, which is not a discrete set of laws, does not equal advocating violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Besides, the U.S. already has a terrific and lasting guideline to creating law–the constitution. Despite taking a recent beating, it seems perfectly sound. And that constitution permits freedom of expression and religion. Why doesn’t Tancredo want to abide by the wonderful guidelines established by our founding fathers?
What I am unable to understand is that isn’t democracy that if the people want, they can enact any law? If they don’t want, they cannot? Doesn’t that mean that if American people do not want, they cannot enact Shariah?
The bill doesn’t even understand the difference between “Jihad” and “Shariah”!
Also, it seems that Tancredo doesn’t have much understanding of Shariah – he’s confusing what the ‘radicals’ say versus what Shariah really is. For instance, under this bill, if a Muslim happens to support death penalty, could he be charged with the “crime of supporting Shariah” even though he could be doing so on secular grounds?
As a person from the world’s largest democracy- India, I know what sharia law does. Its a barbaric law which was set up in the 6th century AD and is inhuman to put it in short. India has one of the highest populations of Muslims and they have established a parallel judicial system. Do we want that in this country.
An example of a real case in India shows how ridiculous and inhuman this law can get.
A woman who was raped was told that she needed to divorce her husband, sleep with another man before she could marry her husband again. It totally defies common sense and logic.
First there will be shariah law , then they will demand a separate state then a separate country. We need to reject these 6th century barbaric laws which has no place in this country and in our constitution.
There is also a huge loophole in this bill. There is nothing which stops the citizens of this country , who are not immigrants, but born in the US (mainly children of immigrants)to try and establish Shariah law. We need to look at that angle too.
Please read what happens to people under these laws in Iran and Saudi Arabia. If people of every religion and every ethnicity starts demanding their own set of laws this country will soon be divided.
Also for those who need more information about the truth about islam…please visit http://www.faithfreedom.org..it exposes what islam and shariah law really is.
Don’t worry, Omer. It’s okay for Muslims to support secular laws. Tancredo is just trying to prevent radical Muslims from imposing Shariah law on moderate American Muslims under the guise of religious freedom or multiculturism. The bottom line is that if you come to America, you have to adopt and abide by OUR laws. If you think our legal system is inferior or inadequate, that is your right, but don’t expect us to welcome you into this country.
Hasan is totally right, as-salaamu ‘alaikum!
and for the rest of you Shalom, and God Bless..
Amy you are wrong.. 110% .. This is what the forefathers and framers of America had in mind… Seperation of church and state.
In England the church forced laws..
America calls for a seperation of law and religion.. Even if Christian values support the laws the government chooses.
Let’s not forget.. some of the Muslim beliefs are supported by US laws as well. This is more less a general code of well being, and laws that promote general welfare.
Sharia however.. thats just not going to promote welfare for anyone.. Believe me, that law would have us stone to death half of the kids I went to high school with.
People have to be allowed to decide for themselves what personal practices and lifestyles to pursue! that is why it is America, and not Iran.
Senator McCain has it correct. Senator Obama does not understand the depth and serious nature of terrorism to the United States. A benchmark for reference was evident in Senator Obama’s speech given on Thursday July 24th at Victory Column at Tiergarten Park in Berlin.
When Obama remarks, “If we could win a battle of ideas against the communists, we can stand with the great majority of Muslims who reject the extremism that leads to hate instead of hope.” what the Senator fails to grasp is understanding the fundamental difference between an idea and a revelation.
Marx and Engels had an idea based on self that, as noted by Frances B Randall Ph.D. “All human history must be understood as history of competing material forces and interests.” In contrast, as noted by David L. Johnson Ph.D. in his book A Reasoned Look At Asian Religions, Islam is a revelation based in the Koran, which lays down the fundamental ideas of Muslim faith “For Muslims it is not a historical document. Instead it is an immediate and unconventional revelation of God’s will for mankind expressed in His own eternal words.”
It would be like the Senator having a conversation with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and making a comment to Ahmadinejad: “Mohammad had a great idea.” But then again this is the same Senator who made the comment: “we go over to Europe, and all we can say is, ‘merci beaucoup.’” As Kauthanammer points out “Obama speaks no French.”
One can only wonder if Senator Obama has read the recent National Defense Strategy approved by Defense Secretary Robert Gates? In part “Iraq and Afghanistan remain the central fronts in the struggle, but we cannot lose sight of the implications of fighting a long-term, episodic, multi-front, and multi-dimensional conflict more complex and diverse than the Cold War confrontation with communism,” the Post quoted the document as saying.
The report certainly lends credence to the fact that the free world is not fighting an idea but a revelation.
Perhaps on the next round of questions the moderator might have the moxy to ask Obama the following question: “: “Senator Obama If you were elected President of the United States, under what circumstances, if any, would you consider asking congress in considering Sharia law as a viable alternative for Muslims to settle legal disputes apart from the current recognized and established American legal system, regardless of the U.S. Constitution?”
A question not to out of the ordinary considering the relevance and importance of Congressman Tom Tancredo’s proposed HR 6975 : “Jihad Prevention Act” that would deny U.S. visas to advocates of ‘Sharia’ law, expel Islamists already here.
It has been said that if we don’t learn from history it repeats itself. We must learn from our lessons on 9-11. I am sure good muslims are as appalled with radical muslims as the rest of us, we must rescind our welcomoe to all those who come to America and take advantage of our constitutional freedoms to us. I support this bill!!! Thank you Tancredo!,
If one is an American, whether Muslim, Jew, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist or whatever, the U.S. Constitution is the standard! It should be upheld and enforced above all other laws. It insures liberty. The bill advocated by Tancredo is long overdue.
This bill doesn’t make sense. The title doesn’t reconcile with the objective at all.
Here are my issues…..
1) The bill doesn’t aim to prevent Jihad as the title claims. Per the language of the bill, the prevention of Sharia from replacing the Constitution is the objective. I wasn’t aware that this was a threat we were facing. In fact, I’m not at all convinced that this is a threat we face. This seems to me to be a reaction to the election of a Muslim Congressman from Minnesota, Muslim governor in Louisiana, and the presidential campaign of a certain democrat with a Muslim name. What Mr. Tancredo and his staff obviously fail to understand is that Jihad and Sharia are not interchangeable terms at all. In fact, Jihad isn’t even part of Sharia. Sharia is the application of God’s law. Jihad is the protection of Islam. The only thing they have in common is that they are both part of the Islamic religion. No where in Sharia is Jihad a legal requirement. I would recommend that Mr. Tancredo’s staff (since they would have drafted the bill) do further homework and actually read up on the thing they are trying to combat.
2) I understand and agree that there are people who would do us harm domestically and we need to be vigilant. However, Mr. Tancredo needs to realize that we are a democracy. We do not persecute or punish people for their beliefs, only their actions. I agree that there is a real danger posed by the small minority of Muslims that are extreme in their warped interpretation of Islam, but to start acting against people for their beliefs is the beginning of something very bad. What is the limit of this? Will we start banning people for being pro-choice? Will we start banning people for not supporting Israel unconditionally? Will we ban people for not supporting the war in Iraq? The diversity of beliefs in our country is part of what makes this country great and helps to form comprehensive policies. A few people believing that God’s law is better than man-made law will not trump the Constitution.
LT, I appreciate your comments, however, all Muslims are commanded to live by Korannic demands to go forth and convert, if successful the convertee becomes a second class citizen, if conversion fails, that person must be put to death. (Sura 9.5). Sharia Law relegates women to 2nd class citizenship, if raped, the woman is guilty and may be stoned to death.
I congratulate Mr. Tancredo and hope he can find support in this PC country.
Unconstitutional. I am a jew, and I can’t say that I back sharia law, however this is headed towards what we read about in brave new world or 1984.
A more constitutional way to pass something like this is to introduce a bill that would ban sharia law outright. Deporting or not allowing someone to come here because they agree with sharia law on a mental level is the same kind of thought crime stuff we read about in the above books I mentioned.
I’m sure people fantasize about sleeping with [enter name of current celeb] but would you hold them legally accountable for raping said celebrity for THINKING about it? I can see someone being deporting for carrying out or enacting sharia law, but the language needs to be changed.
Sharia law is scary. But has anyone ever been able to find a sharia lawbook? A common book that all countries implementing sharia law follow. No, because it is a complicated, ambiguous and lengthy set of laws. All based on interpretation or jurisprudence but at the end of the day from the minds of men. So they’re all varying and many of the laws are wrong. Some laws do not represent the primary message behind Islam; SOCIAL JUSTICE. Muslims need to stop focusing on how to implement Sharia law and/or advocating Sharia law and focus more on more important and pressing concerns, such as the hijacking of the religion Islam and the title Muslim, by radical fanatics raised in patriarchal culture-heavy societies.
Oh and Tancredos bill… HAH! What a joke. He is clearly ignorant to Islam and Sharia. An immigration policy that allows millions of radical muslims..?? There is no democratic westernized country with millions of radical muslims. The majority of Muslims in western countries are in fact moderate.
Oh and Jihad Prevention Act? Any misguided Muslim supporter of Sharia law in the US has every right granted to them in the US to advocate it. What a piece of work.
To those of you who would even think of supporting Sharia Law, just don’t. Nothing good comes from that and I can tell you that first hand living in a country that implement both Sharia & Secular Law itself. And the best way for you to understand & feel the kind of suffering that it may have against our freedom is to become a muslim & do what you usually do as a liberal american citizen. You’ll get a first hand experience with thoughts running through your head, “This isn’t fair!” when they drag you to Sharia court according to their law! And would you even want your daughter/wife/sis to produce 4 witnesses as required by the Sharia law that should prove she’s raped even though she knew that lone rapist? Its purely Garbage In, Garbage Out. Its not the muslim, its Sharia Law!
How about we keep the radical muslim freaks out of Our country, and the UK? Christianity is already the main religion here and it goes against sharia law almost completely. Americans will never appease that barbaric lifestyle, I dont care how many bills are passed, we wont give in.