Texas Anti-Sharia Bill Author Admits Ignorance
A Texas legislator cited something he heard on the radio as evidence that judges in Dearborn, MI were applying Sharia Law, thus necessitating an anti-Sharia measure in Texas:
This should give you some idea the level of competence they have in the Texas legislature, where Rep. Leo Berman has proposed an anti-sharia bill. His great example for why this was necessary? Dearborn, Michigan.
“It’s being done in Dearborn, Mich., because of a large population of Middle Easterners,” Berman said, “and the judges in Dearborn are using and allowing to be used Sharia law.” He mentioned the city six times throughout his testimony.
But when asked for evidence for that ridiculous claim:
“I heard it on a radio station here on my way in to the Capitol one day,” Berman said Monday in an interview. “I don’t know Dearborn, Michigan but I heard it (Sharia is accepted law here) on the radio. Isn’t that true?”No Leo, it’s not true. But as ThinkProgress pointed out, let’s hope he doesn’t hear War of the Worlds on the radio; he’ll be wanting to ban Martian law too.
You know, if War of the Worlds was ever re-broadcast in the same way of the original Orson Welles production, only with Muslims substituted for Martians, how many right wingers do you think would fall for it? I shudder at how high the number could be.