CAIR: Appeals Court Upholds Muslim Rights in Oklahoma

CAIR: Appeals Court Upholds Muslim Rights in Oklahoma

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/10/12) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcomed a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit upholding a lower court’s decision to block implementation of an Oklahoma state constitutional amendment that would prohibit courts from applying — or even considering — “Sharia law” and “international law.”

CAIR: Court Upholds Stay of Oklahoma Ban on Islamic Law (AP)

In response to a lawsuit filed in 2010 by Muneer Awad, the head of CAIR’s Oklahoma office (CAIR-OK), the lower court blocked implementation of the “Save Our State Amendment” based on arguments that it would unconstitutionally disfavor an entire faith and deny Oklahoma’s Muslims access to the judicial system on the same terms as every other citizen. The state appealed that ruling.