We’ve written extensively about the non-existent threat of “sharia law.” In the process, we’ve found ourselves on the receiving end of a spam email campaign in which a large number of deeply impressionable people have sought to educate us about this “important issue.”
For those of you unfamiliar with the “Sharia Law” debate, it’s the belief held among certain Republican politicians (and the sheep who blindly follow them) that radical Muslims are conspiring to take over the American judicial system.
Is there any evidence that this is actually happening? Of course not …
There’s only one case in America where sharia law has ever been used – a New Jersey ruling – and it was immediately overturned.
Yet despite the fact that there is not a single instance of sharia law being invoked (let alone used as a basis for an actionable judgment) in South Carolina courts, more than three dozen state lawmakers are sponsoring legislation targeting this “epidemic.”
Oh … and reporter Gina Smith at The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper devoted several hundred words by way of legitimizing their efforts.
Amazing isn’t it?
Don’t any of these people know that South Carolina has plenty of actual problems that need to be addressed?
Oh right … that’s the point of all this … to keep voters (and the press) from focusing on those problems.
The specter of sharia law – breathlessly pimped by pandering Republicans like Newt Gingrich – is the latest bogeyman invented by a GOP establishment eager to keep voters from focusing on their abysmal fiscal records. In fact, the leader of the “sharia law ban” movement in South Carolina – S.C. Sen. Mike Fair – is one of the most fiscally liberal Republicans in state government.
The GOP should be embarrassed – and every “Republican
By ? February 14, 2012 at 10:02 am
I’m so glad Will calls this shit out for what it is, shit.
It’s like having your house on fire and running over to the water hose connected to it, picking it up, and running 50 feet away from it to put out a burning leaf on your lawn.
I’m not even sure that a population of 1/10 of 1% even warrants the burning leaf analogy. It’s more like a burning blade of grass.
Let the freak show of comments begin!
By STFU February 14, 2012 at 10:03 am
Fair needs Bob Jones air cover as the masses try and unseat Thomas.
Although Thomas is taking the well used approach of multiple candidates in an attempt to weaken the field into a run off and then have the BJU mafia deliver a better the devil we know then an untested Tea Partier, Fair has only the local bar and some folks saying the Upstate can not affoed to lose any more seniority.
So the Pander bull shit gets rolled out. What might make the difference. Well for some reason the BJU crowd does not seem to be able shut down the Rhino Hunter crowd in the Upstate, even though when you video the meetings you quickly see that over half the crowd is Judas Bju infiltration.
Sewing distrust and confusiing backstabbing is coming Harry’s way for sure, courtesy of the Romney backers inside the campus who are still smarting from the failure to deliver for Mitt.
The problem with unseating Fair is not understanding his power base. Thomas may be a toad , but Fair is a very effective viper, now draped in the cloak of protecting the Upstate from the Islamafia. Priceless.
The only person telling the truth in the Upstate is the Rhino Hunter, not sure they will let him bag two trophies this primary season.
By Bogart February 14, 2012 at 10:07 am
I heard this same group of Sharia Law idiots also found the Loc Ness monster and when they opened him up they found President Obama’s birth certificate,but they won’t accept it because it was the short form.They also found Newt’s lost Viagra prescription.
By Robert February 14, 2012 at 10:13 am
We simply do not have to worry about all the issues other countries have in their government and law because of our constitution and the fact that we have free elections. So, all the boogeyman crap can just shut up.
By snodgrass February 14, 2012 at 10:57 am
I don’t have time to worry about Sharia Law. I’m too busy worrying about the increasing authority of American law.
By Sailor February 14, 2012 at 12:00 pm
A fucking men to that!
By Trevor Bauknight February 14, 2012 at 12:23 pm
The average anti-Sharia activist in South Carolina would gladly embrace official Levitical Law, which is essentially the same thing, Mike Fair first and foremost among them.
By Gary Rumain February 14, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Ah, the average libtard opens his clueless mouth.
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By Crooner February 14, 2012 at 1:27 pm
Actual problems like preventing voter fraud?
By Gary Rumain February 14, 2012 at 5:40 pm
Can anyone of you clueless libtards even tell me what sharia is?
And why is that arselifters claim they don’t want it, but as soon as some law is proposed to ban it from consideration in a court room, CAIR comes out and opposes it? Seems hypocritical to me.
Anyway, I’m off to stone some sharmuta for exposing too much flesh.
By Walter Brown February 14, 2012 at 6:54 pm
I’m surprised that you could string as many words together as you did, considering how clueless you are in the face of such enormous evidence.
I guess death sentences for blasphemy, homosexuality, adultery are not serious to you. Pull your head out of your butt…
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/291039/have-you-heard-about-saudi-journalist-who-faces-potential-death-sentence-under-sharia-
By RUNMAD February 15, 2012 at 7:01 am
Just to be sure, in that New Jersey case, Shariah Law was NOT used. Nothing in Shariah law says you can force your wife to have sex. Whatever that incompetent Judge applied was neither American Law, nor Shariah Law – but his own demented concoction.
But as you rightly said, it was immediately overturned anyway.
The lesson from all this is that(gasp) Judges can make mistakes too!! Which is why we have appeals and supreme courts. If judges were always perfect all the time, we would never need appeals and supreme courts for any reason what so ever.
A mistake was made, it was corrected, end of story.
By Brian February 19, 2012 at 6:13 pm
Its amazing how Fitz can fit so many false statements into a single article.
1. No proponent of this bill has called the use of sharia law an “epidemic” in SC or elsewhere in the US (however the citizens of the UK may beg to differ since agreeing to allow sharia courts s few years ago, 89 sharia courts have sprung up).
2. No proponent of this bill claims “radical” muslims are trying to spread sharia law. You don’t have to be radical muslim to believe sharia should be the supreme law of the land in which you live. It is mainstream Islamic doctrine.
3. There are at least 27 reported cases where sharia law was applicable in the courts decision. Not just the one NJ case Fitz cites. You can see them all here: http://shariahinamericancourts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Sharia_Law_And_American_State_Courts_1.4_06212011.pdf