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OKLAHOMA CITY – An Oklahoma Muslim filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday to block a state constitutional amendment overwhelmingly approved by voters that would prohibit state courts from considering international law or Islamic law when deciding cases.

The measure, which got 70 percent of the vote in Tuesday's election, was one of several on Oklahoma's ballot that critics said pandered to conservatives and would move the state further to the right.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City, seeks a temporary retraining order and injunction to block the election results from being certified by the state Election Board on Nov. 9. Among other things, the lawsuit alleges the ballot measure transforms Oklahoma's Constitution into "an enduring condemnation" of Islam by singling it out for special restrictions by barring Islamic law, also known as Sharia law.

"We have a handful of politicians who have pushed an amendment onto our state ballot and then conducted a well-planned and well-funded campaign of misinformation and fear," said Muneer Awad, who filed the suit and is executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Oklahoma. "We have certain unalienable rights, and those rights cannot be taken away from me by a political campaign." About 20,000 and 30,000 Muslims live in Oklahoma, Awad estimated.

Legal experts have also questioned the measure.

Joseph Thai, a professor at the University of Oklahoma's College of Law, said the ballot measure is "an answer in search of a problem." He said he knows of no other state that has approved similar measures.

"There is no plausible danger of international law or Sharia law overtaking the legal system," Thai said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. He said courts only consider international law when deciding issues involving a federal treaty, a business contract or a will that incorporates international law.

Thai said the ballot measure "raises thorny church-state problems as well" and could even affect a state judge's ability to consider the Ten Commandments.

"The Ten Commandments, of course, is international law. It did not originate in Oklahoma or the United States," Thai said.

The measure is scheduled to go into effect on Jan. 1. It's author, Rep. Rex Duncan, R-Sand Springs, said it was not intended to attack Muslims but to prevent activist judges from relying on international law or Islamic law when ruling on legal cases.

"The threat posed by activist judges is clear," Duncan said. "It shouldn't matter what the law in France or any other European country is."

Duncan described the measure as "a pre-emptive strike" in Oklahoma, where he said activist judges are not an imminent problem. But some judges elsewhere, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, believe courts should look to the law of other countries for guidance when deciding cases, he said.

Ginsburg told a meeting of international lawyers in Washington in July that American judges can learn from their foreign counterparts when seeking solutions to "trying questions."

"The only people who would be a victim of this are activist judges," said Duncan, who in 2007 rejected a Quran as a gift from a council created by Gov. Brad Henry, explaining that "most Oklahomans do not endorse the idea of killing innocent women and children in the name of ideology."

One Oklahoma resident said he voted for the measure on Tuesday because chaos might ensue if judges were permitted to rely on international or religious laws in their courts.

"Any private organization could come in and say the judge has to rule according to our rules and regulations and overrule state laws," Oklahoma City attorney Jerry Fent said. "How many religions could you have?"

But Laura Gorton, a college student from Oklahoma City, said she saw no need for the measure and voted against it.

"It's not an issue here," Gorton said. "It's almost like an attempt to make a jab at other cultures."

Among the 10 other questions on Tuesday's ballot were a measure that would make English the state's official language and another one the allows residents to "opt-out" of the new federal health care reform law. Both passed.

The questions are the product of a Republican-controlled Legislature, which circumvented Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry — a Democrat — to take them to the ballot. Critics say Republicans were trying to beef up voter turnout among certain conservative groups by appealing to biases on immigration, Islam and the reach of Washington in a state where President Barack Obama failed to win a single county in 2008.

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Just wondering, are these the same 14th century Islamic laws that maintain that it's justifiable to kill women for bringing 'dishonor' upon their families? Dishonor like women wearing makeup, showing an ankle, or dating a guy of a different religion?

For Libs Who Just Got Scared

By James Lewis
Bill Maher, the biggest mud-thrower on the left, recently had his Juan Williams moment. He's afraid that radical Islam will take over the world.

Ten million other libs who get their news from comedy shows can finally admit they're scared, too. They were just waiting for PC permission to think what everybody else in the world has thought for decades. Bill Maher has given them permission to feel fear.

Radical Islam should scare you.

If you're a liberal, please memorize this, because there will be a quiz -- soon enough.

Keep an eye on the headlines. There will be a terrorist strike, and not just one. It will happen in the Muslim world, which means our media will pretend it never happened. Or it will happen in the West, which means that even some liberals will find out -- so that they can go back to denying, rationalizing, and blaming George W. Bush for the new fascist, imperialistic threat.

For decades the left has been in swaggering denial about Islamic imperialism even though it's right in front of their eyes. If they had read a smidgen of history, they would know that Islam has been the most successful imperialistic war culture since the 7th century: more successful than Soviet imperialism, much more persistent than Nazi imperialism, and more real than Coca-Cola imperialism (which exists only in liberal fever swamps).

The Soviets lasted less than a century. The Nazis lasted for thirteen years. Islamic Imperialism has existed since the 6th century, and it has conquered a third of the world. Islamic reactionaries have now oppressed women, Christians, and Jews wherever they take power for more than a thousand years. Hitler boasted about only a thousand-year world empire. Muslim reactionaries have had their empire for a lot longer than that.

The Muslim world has tried to leave Islamic radicalism behind. After World War I, Ataturk outlawed the symbols of the Ottoman Empire. The Shah of Iran tried to move Iran past the Islamic reactionaries. Egypt tried a military overthrow of the religious establishment. Turkey and Iran were models of modernization in the Muslim world. Many other Muslim countries tried to follow those models.

Then Jimmy Carter allowed Ayatollah Khomeini to overthrow the Shah in 1979. Khomeini promptly started to kill all his opponents, especially the liberals. He got into a war that killed a million people and tried to overthrow the Saudi regime across the Gulf. Twenty years later, Turkey elected an Islamist, and today Turkey has now joined Iran on the radical Islamic front. Pakistan already has nukes and a pervasive indigenous Islamic fascist movement. Israel is surrounded by Islamic fascists in Gaza and Lebanon, controlled by a wannabe Hitler in Iran who doesn't let a day go by without threatening a second Holocaust.

And then, on 9/11/01, nineteen Saudi terrorists killed almost three thousand people in New York City and in Washington, D.C. But actually, that was the second time they tried. The same crew tried to blow up the Twin Towers in 1994, but Bill Clinton forgot to tell us about it.

Astonishing, liberals were still in denial after 9/11. Their heads were buried so deep in the slime of ignorance that they kept explaining away every Islamist murder and cultural provocation. They elected Barack Hussein Obama to prove to the world how lovable they all are and invented the oxymoron "Islamophobia" to explain why millions of people with common sense were scared.

You cannot have "Islamophobia" in the real world, because a "phobia" is an irrational fear. You can't have an irrational fear of somebody pointing a gun at you. That is a rational fear. "Islamophobia" is an imaginary word from people who never check an English dictionary.

Fear of Islamist violence is not a phobia. It is seeing what's real, because it keeps on happening. In Iraq, thousands and thousands of women, men, and children have been killed by purposeful truck bombs in street markets. And no, it wasn't George W. Bush who killed them. It was al-Qaeda paid by Saudi billionaires, Islamic terrorists paid by Iran, and a lot of bombers paid by Iraq's old fascist party, the Ba'ath. It all adds up to really evil mass murders by terrorist throwbacks to the Dark Ages. But the Left just blamed it on Bush.

Now George W. Bush is out of office, and even liberals can no longer believe their own fairy tales. After all, Obama has bowed down to the Saudi King and to the Emperor of Japan. We've apologized! We elected Barack Hussein Obama!

Why don't they love us now?

If any liberals are reading this, a word of advice. Try reading what the Islamic radicals are writing. Look at the video propaganda campaign they are streaming to the West on MEMRI.org. And keep in mind that children in Gaza, Cairo, and Tehran are watching this stuff day after day after day. It's the biggest brainwashing message they will hear all their lives.

You might also notice that Israel is only one of their enemies. They hate America and Europe. They hate Sweden. They hate liberalism. Islamic radicals constantly kill militant Marxists, believe it or not (just like the other way around). They also hate Hindus, especially in the Kashmir. They hate Buddhists. That's why the Taliban blew up those giant Buddhist sculptures in Afghanistan They hate free women.

Ignore the disinformation from the media for a day or two.

Try to find some facts instead.

You'll be amazed what you will find.

I dare ya.

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I'm putting all my dough in wooden shoes!!!!

The Islamists will especially not like "your kind". Zero tolerance.

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Wasn't she also in 'Halal Hooters 2' and 'Return of the Big Busted Baghdad Burka Babes'?

The Hebrew Hammer slams them with their rule book!

Johann,

That is some funny ****!