By Douglas V. Gibbs
We all know that Elena Kagan is a raging liberal, one who believes in judicial activism, and circumventing the U.S. Constitution by way of implied law. But, are you familiar with her active support for Shariah Law?
During Kagan's years as Dean of Harvard Law School (2003-2009), she ran and greatly expanded the Islamic Legal Studies Program. Kagan's program made use of publications and conferences to promote the introduction of Shariah law into national Constitutions.
To help her with the project, Kagan hired Noah Feldman in 2007. In 2008 Feldman published: “The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State,” which argues for democratically elected “Islamist” (aka Muslim Brotherhood) parties to take control of Muslim states in order to govern under Shariah law. Kagan's response was to reward him by giving him the endowed Bemis Chair in International Law on September 16, 2008. His speech accepting the Bemis chair advocated an “experimental Constitution” that “embraces international institutions.”
Two months after giving Feldman his Bemis chair, from November 12-14, 2008, Kagan spoke at and presided over a conference titled "The Constitutional Judiciary in the Muslim World: Its Influence on the Interpretation of Constitutional and Legislative Texts 1970 to 2008." This conference suggested that Shariah is being written into national constitutions in Muslim countries as a guiding principle.
Kagan's conference seemed upbeat about the spread of Shariah, as if appreciating the prospect of introducing Shariah law into Constitutions. In fact, it was suggested that Noah Feldman was the advisor in Iraq who insisted on putting a clause in the Iraqi constitution requiring legislation comply with Shariah law. The conference treated the introduction of Shariah law into national constitutions as a thing of progress, a positive direction toward the rise of an Islamic State.
This leads one to ask if Kagan also believes that Shariah law being added to America's Constitution is a good thing?
Note that, as expected, Kagan pays no attention to the part of Shariah law that disallows any rights for women, non-Muslims, apostates and gays. Nor does she seem to acknowledge the Islamic teachings that demand violent jihad.
Her concerns are not what Shariah law says, just that Constitutions comply with Shariah law.
Interestingly, whatever Kagan said at the conference has not been recorded. There is no record regarding what she said. She is listed on the program, and a photo of her at the conference was published in the June 2009 Islamic Legal Studies Program newsletter, but any words she uttered are non-existent.
That same newsletter, on the last page (”Objectives and Principles”) states that Kagan’s Islamic Legal Studies Program seeks “to promote a deep appreciation of Islamic law as one of the world’s major legal systems.”
One of the world's major legal systems?
That goes back to my question - Does Elena Kagan believe that Shariah law should be implemented into the U.S. Constitution by amendment?
Gosh, if she has a “deep appreciation” of Islamic law and international law, how can we trust her to defend, protect, and abide by the U.S. Constitution while she sits on the U.S. Supreme Court?
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Elena Kagan’s Work to Make Constitutions More Shariah-Compliant - Patriot Update, Andrew Breitbart's Big Peace
We all know that Elena Kagan is a raging liberal, one who believes in judicial activism, and circumventing the U.S. Constitution by way of implied law. But, are you familiar with her active support for Shariah Law?
During Kagan's years as Dean of Harvard Law School (2003-2009), she ran and greatly expanded the Islamic Legal Studies Program. Kagan's program made use of publications and conferences to promote the introduction of Shariah law into national Constitutions.
To help her with the project, Kagan hired Noah Feldman in 2007. In 2008 Feldman published: “The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State,” which argues for democratically elected “Islamist” (aka Muslim Brotherhood) parties to take control of Muslim states in order to govern under Shariah law. Kagan's response was to reward him by giving him the endowed Bemis Chair in International Law on September 16, 2008. His speech accepting the Bemis chair advocated an “experimental Constitution” that “embraces international institutions.”
Two months after giving Feldman his Bemis chair, from November 12-14, 2008, Kagan spoke at and presided over a conference titled "The Constitutional Judiciary in the Muslim World: Its Influence on the Interpretation of Constitutional and Legislative Texts 1970 to 2008." This conference suggested that Shariah is being written into national constitutions in Muslim countries as a guiding principle.
Kagan's conference seemed upbeat about the spread of Shariah, as if appreciating the prospect of introducing Shariah law into Constitutions. In fact, it was suggested that Noah Feldman was the advisor in Iraq who insisted on putting a clause in the Iraqi constitution requiring legislation comply with Shariah law. The conference treated the introduction of Shariah law into national constitutions as a thing of progress, a positive direction toward the rise of an Islamic State.
This leads one to ask if Kagan also believes that Shariah law being added to America's Constitution is a good thing?
Note that, as expected, Kagan pays no attention to the part of Shariah law that disallows any rights for women, non-Muslims, apostates and gays. Nor does she seem to acknowledge the Islamic teachings that demand violent jihad.
Her concerns are not what Shariah law says, just that Constitutions comply with Shariah law.
Interestingly, whatever Kagan said at the conference has not been recorded. There is no record regarding what she said. She is listed on the program, and a photo of her at the conference was published in the June 2009 Islamic Legal Studies Program newsletter, but any words she uttered are non-existent.
That same newsletter, on the last page (”Objectives and Principles”) states that Kagan’s Islamic Legal Studies Program seeks “to promote a deep appreciation of Islamic law as one of the world’s major legal systems.”
One of the world's major legal systems?
That goes back to my question - Does Elena Kagan believe that Shariah law should be implemented into the U.S. Constitution by amendment?
Gosh, if she has a “deep appreciation” of Islamic law and international law, how can we trust her to defend, protect, and abide by the U.S. Constitution while she sits on the U.S. Supreme Court?
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Elena Kagan’s Work to Make Constitutions More Shariah-Compliant - Patriot Update, Andrew Breitbart's Big Peace
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