Oklahoma’s Shariah Law Ban Creates Controversy
Cory Williams get this right: all the anti-sharia crap is… crap
Oklahoma State Rep. Cory Williams is exasperated. He was one of only 12 state legislators to resist the political stampede to put before voters a referendum to prohibit state judges from considering Islamic Shariah or international law in their rulings.
He derided his colleagues’ fervor as “irresponsible” and “pandering.” Voters, Williams said, “think that their legislators are not screwing around and putting things on the ballot [just] to get a certain electorate out there. They think that if the legislators put it there, then there’s an issue” that must be addressed, he told the Intelligence Report. “What they don’t pay us to do is be political assholes.”
Legal experts say banning Shariah law is superfluous; there is no mechanism by which any foreign criminal or civil code can trump U.S. laws. Business experts add that such a ban could hurt the image of domestic companies doing business overseas. Yet when Oklahoma voters got the chance to vote on State Question 755, the so-called “Save Our State Amendment,” 70% approved it.