Use of Sharia law approved in Tampa, Florida. Sami Al-Arian has to be pleased.

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3/18/11, Sharia law comes to Tampa, Florida. Hillsborough County Judge approves use of Islamic law.




From Robert Spencer, it appears to involve 2 brothers. Hey, it's a start!

• A 12/5/08 article relates how Tampa has provided a friendly environment for the growth of extreme Islam and sharia.

"Tampa Mayor Honors Extremism," FrontPageMagazine.com, Joe Kaufman
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"In April of 2007, Pam Iorio was sworn into office for her second term as Mayor of Tampa Bay, Florida, given

• the confidence of Tampa’s citizens that she will help protect them from harm.

Yet every year for at least the last four years of the six-plus years she has served, Mayor Iorio has honored CAIR, a radical Muslim organization, with a Proclamation naming a day for the group.

• Is the Mayor just trying to placate a fringe constituency or has she submitted to terror?

Tampa has had an Islamic terrorism problem for more than two decades. Elements of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Hamas

• and the Muslim Brotherhood

have infected the population, rendering it vulnerable to those who wish to do harm to the city.

From August of 1986 till February of 2003, when he was taken into custody by law enforcement, Sami Al-Arian, a university professor, built

• an entire PIJ infrastructure within the Tampa area.

He did so in the guise of a charity, a think tank, a children’s school and a mosque --

• the latter two still in existence."...

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3/20,11, "'This case will proceed under Ecclesiastical Islamic Law'," American Thinker, Thomas Lifson

"A mind-boggling court order from Judge Richard A. Nielsen, of Hillsborough County (Tampa) Florida. Read the whole court order, via Jihad Watch.

• Oklahoma voters passed a law barring the application of sharia law, and it was struck down by a federal judge, U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange.

Whether the American people consent or not, multiculturalist elites have decided to ram sharia down our throats, apparently."
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3/20/11, "Sharia law has come to Florida," RedState.com by Tom in Florida

"Last week, Rep. Sandy Adams (FL24) introduced legislation that “protects the integrity of our Constitution and U.S. laws by clarifying that our courts should follow and uphold our laws – not defer to those of foreign nations.”

Ironically, less than a week prior to Rep. Adams introducing her bill, a Florida judge imposed Sharia Law in a Tampa courtroom, perhaps the best indication yet of just how important such legislation is to this country.

The story is detailed by Brigitte Gabriel, author of the book ‘They Must Be Stopped’, in a Red County post;

"In Tampa, Florida, a dispute arose over who controls the funds a mosque received in 2008 from an eminent domain proceeding.

Former trustees of the mosque are claiming in court they have the right to the funds. Current mosque leaders are disputing that claim.

The current mosque leaders want the case decided according to secular, Florida civil law, and their attorney has been vigorously arguing the case accordingly.

The former trustees of the mosque want the case decided according to sharia law.

Here’s the kicker.

The judge recently ruled “This case will proceed under Ecclesiastical Islamic law,” (sharia law), “pursuant to the Qur’an.”

You can read the judge’s ruling here.

Now it’s not unusual for a dispute to arise within a religious institution and for a court to order a mediation or arbitration, in order to resolve this without the court having to render its own judgment.

But what makes this case unusual, and highly troubling, is that a group of Muslim leaders—the CURRENT mosque leaders—who do NOT want to be subject to sharia law, are being compelled to do so by an American judge!

The judge in reference is the Honorable Richard A. Nielsen, Circuit Court Judge in the Circuit Court of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Hillsborough County (Tampa), Florida Civil Division.

The judges ruling states;

1. This case will proceed under Ecclesiastical Islamic Law.

2. Under Ecclesiastical Islamic, pursuant to the Qur’an, Islamic brothers should try to resolve a dispute among themselves. When the brothers are unable to do so, they can agree to present the dispute to the greater community of brothers within the mosque or the Muslim community for resolution. If that is not done or does not result in a resolution of the dispute, the dispute is to be presented to an Islamic judge for determination, and that is or can be A’lim.

3. The remainder of the hearing will be to determine whether Islamic dispute resolution procedures have been followed in this matter.

In effect, due process in an American court is being denied and Sharia law is being imposed

• on an unwilling participant. Right here in Florida."

via Weasel Zippers