Is this a legitimate use of Islamic law in a US civil court?<\/p>\n
Is this anything to be alarmed about?<\/p>\n
Is this precedent setting?<\/p>\n
The question of what law applies in any Florida courtroom usually comes down to two choices: federal or state.<\/p>\n
But Hillsborough Circuit Judge Richard Nielsen is being attacked by conservative bloggers after he ruled in a lawsuit March 3 that, to resolve one crucial issue in the case, he will consult a different source.<\/p>\n
“This case,” the judge wrote, “will proceed under Ecclesiastical Islamic Law.” <\/p>\n
Nielsen said he will decide in a lawsuit against a local mosque, the Islamic Education Center of Tampa, whether the parties in the litigation properly followed the teachings of the Koran in obtaining an arbitration decision from an Islamic scholar.<\/p>\n
The suit was filed by several men who say they were improperly ousted as trustees in 2002. The dispute may decide who controls $2.2 million the center received from the state after some of its land was used in a road project.<\/p>\n
But attorney Paul Thanasides last week appealed Nielson’s decision with the 2nd District Court of Appeal, saying religion has no place in a secular court.<\/p>\n
His client: the mosque.<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
The judge said he would use Islamic law to decide only the legitimacy of arbitration.<\/p>\n
“What law would we be applying (at) trial?” Thanasides asked.<\/p>\n
“That trial would be civil law,” the judge said. “Florida law.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Is that all there is to it?<\/p>\n
Might this be a test to see whether “they” can “get away” with it?<\/p>\n
I don’t know.<\/p>\n
But I find the matter interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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