{"id":32916,"date":"2011-03-19T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/sharia-law-comes-to-a-florida-courtroom\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T11:54:00","slug":"sharia-law-comes-to-a-florida-courtroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/sharia-law-comes-to-a-florida-courtroom.php","title":{"rendered":"Sharia Law comes to a Florida Courtroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-PS6EAOH51YE\/TYSgF54WSII\/AAAAAAAARdU\/GtPuD5sxmNY\/s1600\/ShariaNo.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cdd10_ShariaNo.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Judge Richard Nielsen of the 13th Judicial Circuit for Hillsborough County, has ruled that a dispute over funds from property between two competing Muslim interests, should be decided according to Sharia Law.  <\/p><p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/grendelreport.posterous.com\/judge-orders-muslims-to-follow-sharia-law\">GrendelReport<\/a>, \"Judge orders Muslims to follow Sharia Law\":<\/p><blockquote><p>In Tampa, Florida, a dispute arose over who controls the funds a mosque received in 2008 from an eminent domain proceeding. <\/p><p>Former trustees of the mosque are claiming in court they have the right to the funds. Current mosque leaders are disputing that claim. <\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-lT_LLd0yEuE\/TYSgOimEbpI\/AAAAAAAARdc\/G-02DYbPsmo\/s1600\/RichardNielsenJudge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cdd10_RichardNielsenJudge.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>The former trustees of the mosque want the case decided according to sharia law.  <\/p><p>The judge recently ruled &ldquo;This case will proceed under Ecclesiastical Islamic law,&rdquo; (sharia law), &ldquo;pursuant to the Qur&rsquo;an.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote><p>(Complete trial ruling - <a href=\"http:\/\/tool.donation-net.net\/Images\/Email\/1097\/110303_Order_in_Connection_with_Plaintiffs__Emergency_Motion.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) <\/p><p>As the GrendelReport further points out the case is similar to a... <\/p><blockquote><p>2009 New Jersey case, where a Muslim woman sought a restraining order, in civil court, against her Muslim husband, who was raping her several times a day. The judge denied the restraining order because, in his opinion, the husband did not commit a crime because he was following his Islamic beliefs. <\/p><\/blockquote><p>Judge Nielsen has been serving on the bench since 2000.  He is a former trial lawyer.  He was appointed by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/82318_7828681836623105417-6976401400795382721?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:Judge Richard Nielsen of the 13th Judicial Circuit for Hillsborough County, has ruled that a dispute over funds from property between two competing Muslim interests, should be decided according to Sharia Law. From the GrendelReport, \"Judge orders Muslims &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/sharia-law-comes-to-a-florida-courtroom.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}