{"id":22800,"date":"2010-11-09T16:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/muslim_advocacy_group_sues_over_oklahoma_shariah_ban\/"},"modified":"2010-11-09T16:00:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T16:00:52","slug":"muslim_advocacy_group_sues_over_oklahoma_shariah_ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22800","title":{"rendered":"RNS&#8211;Muslim Advocacy Group Sues over Oklahoma Shariah Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Muslim advocacy group filed suit Thursday (Nov. 4) in Oklahoma, saying a just-passed amendment forbidding judicial use of Islamic law is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The suit, filed by the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, seeks a federal district court\u2019s order to prevent board of elections officials from enacting the constitutional amendment. Seventy percent of Oklahoma voters Tuesday approved State Question 755, which bans the use of Shariah law in state courts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/muslim-advocacy-group-sues-over-okla-shariah-ban-cms-16972\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Muslim advocacy group filed suit Thursday (Nov. 4) in Oklahoma, saying a just-passed amendment forbidding judicial use of Islamic law is unconstitutional. The suit, filed by the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, seeks a federal district<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22800\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,426,114,155,151,108,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}