Just as the Islamic State and Muslim immigrants have promised, the first tangible installation of Sharia law has been established and in the most unlikely of places.
An actual Islamic council that rules for a local Muslim community has been exposed in Dallas, Texas, Breitbart reports.
The council is a miniature, organized Sharia court, and it is recognized as a non-profit organization, so they receive a tax exempt status.
Breitbart Texas spoke with “judge” Dr. Taher El-badawi, who described the ruling board as “judges” and not “arbitrators.”
El-badawi said that the Islamic Tribunal follows extensive Sharia law to resolve civil disputes and social matters.
Although they claim that any ruling is a “non-binding dispute resolution” and is completely on a “voluntary” basis, El-bawadi adds that “a married couple cannot be considered divorced by the Islamic community unless it is granted by the tribunal.”
“The husband can request the divorce directly from the tribunal,” he explained. “The wife must go to an Imam who will request the divorce for her.”
This means that a man can divorce his wife by his own choice, but a woman must have the permission of a man to ask for a divorce. She must have a good reason for it, one that an imam deems worthy of hearing. This stems from the fact that a woman is considered inferior in all aspects to a man. She is considered sinful, weak, frivolous, and should be watched and kept closely as a property, as per the Quran and Hadith.
In typical divorces under Sharia law, the husband will keep the majority of the assets.
El-bawadi admitted that they see Sharia as an absolute authority above even the judicial system of the U.S., only following state law when it comes to child support and custody.
El-bawadi confessed to Breitbart Texas that if the state’s law and Sharia law conflict, “we follow Sharia law.”
He did not say what ramifications there would be if either party chooses not to follow the tribunal’s decision.
According to the Islamic Tribunal’s official website:
“The courts of the United States of America are costly and consist of ineffective lawyers. Discontent with the legal system leads many Muslims in America to postpone justice in this world and opt for an audience on the Day of Judgment.
“It is with this issue that Muslims here in America are obligated to find a way to solve conflicts and disputes according to the principles of Islamic Law and its legal heritage of fairness and justice in a manner that is reasonable and cost effective.
“Stoning adulterers, cutting of the hands, polyandry and the like (all can be traced in the relevant literature and can be explained in their Islamic legal mentality and rational context in fairness and justice), are mainly a part of Islamic Criminal Law. In fact criminal law within Islam only makes up a fraction of the Shari’ah. It is unscholarly and unfair to generalize that type of understanding, that is Criminal Law, to compromise the whole of Islamic law if we stick to speaking in technical terms.”
Along with honoring a foreign law, El-bawadi confesses that they will consider federal law abrogated and worth defying if it clashes with Sharia.
This type of blatant admission of revering a foreign law, especially one so inhumane, over federal law is an admission of treason. A council that stands to judge by and carry out foreign law must be dispersed. Sharia law cannot coexist with any other law, as it adamantly states that it must be the finally authority.
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