Responding to Critics of Oklahoma's Anti-Sharia Initiative

The growing recognition by the public that sharia is the underlying threat doctrine driving the global jihad and the war against the West gave voice in the last mid-term election in Oklahoma. An amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution, known as Question 755, was proposed that would prohibit state courts from considering and using international law and sharia. The amendment passed overwhelmingly by an affirmative vote of 70%.

Immediately, the Muslim Brotherhood apologists, the progressives, and the elite law school professoriate attacked the amendment as unnecessary and therefore a manifestation of the “ill-informed” Tea Party electorate. Not surprisingly, the attacks also included the typical narrative of “Islamophobia.”

CAIR, the Hamas-front group seeking to insinuate sharia via the Muslim Brotherhood’s stealth effort to destroy this country, sued to challenge the constitutionality of the amendment. The federal court stayed the implementation of the amendment and is now considering the amendment’s future.

One of the typical criticisms of Question 755 articulated by the law school professoriate appeared in the LA Times soon after the amendment passed. Written by a Pepperdine University Law School professor, the essay began with a condescending attack against the Oklahomans who voted for the amendment and then proffered an entirely bogus argument against the move to prohibit sharia in state courts. The essay is available online here.

My legal staff and I were asked to comment on this essay and the other published criticisms of the Oklahoma amendment and we did so thoroughly and in a style fully accessible to non-lawyers. Now published as a white paper at the Center for Security Policy, it is available here. We believe it is a valuable explanation of how sharia threatens our legal system here in the U.S. and why legislative efforts to prohibit sharia are important and possible. While the Oklahoma amendment has its shortcomings, the effort was valiant and we can only suggest to Oklahomans and to voters and legislators in other states to take a look at the uniform draft legislation called the American Laws for American Courts Act created by the Law Offices of David Yerushalmi, P.C., available online here with a 40-minute continuing legal education PowerPoint presentation explaining the act in detail.