Oklahoma bans sharia, forgets Hammurabi [View all]

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Oklahoma bans sharia, forgets Hammurabi
By DALE McFEATTERS
Scripps Howard News Service

Published: Monday, June 25, 2012 at 7:14 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, June 25, 2012 at 7:14 a.m.

In 2010, the state of Oklahoma outlawed "sharia," the legislators knowing nothing about it except that it had something to do with Muslim law, its supporters knowing of no instances where it had been invoked in the state, and, indeed, the state had only 15,000 Muslims.

There was much talk of preventing terrorism, but the worst act of terror in the state, the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people, was committed by Timothy McVeigh, who was reared a Roman Catholic.

So far as is known, the Oklahoma legislature made no attempt to outlaw canon law, but the century is young yet.

The ban spread to such juridical and theological centers of learning as Tennessee and Alabama, and many other states have been considering a ban on sharia, whatever sharia is exactly.