Why this controversy over Shariah? Wait…Shariah?!? What’s that?
Co-founder of ShariaInAmerica.com and well-known attorney Abed Awad breaks it down for you. Watch here.
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“The True Story of Sharia in American Courts” – By Abed Awad
Published in The Nation magazine on June 13, 2012
To read this article, click here.
Co-founder of Sharia In America Blog and Rutgers Law School Adjunct Professor Abed Awad, debates Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, about the anti-Sharia legislation in Oklahoma.
~To watch Part I, click here.
~To watch Part II, click here.
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Published in New Jersey Law Journal Monday February 13, 2012 By Abed Awad & Noura Jebara The ideal solution to protect New Jersey women whose husbands refuse to grant them a religious divorce is to adopt a New York-style law. … Continue reading
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Last week, the North Carolina Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 ruling, handed down a decision refusing to recognize an Islamic, religious divorce conducted in Maryland. The Court emphasized that the parties’ Muslim marriage, without a Maryland Marriage License, was … Continue reading
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Our blog post about Zawahiri v. Alwattar (No. 07AP-925) will provide our readers with extremely important practice tips on how to handle the enforcement of a Muslim Marriage Contract. As we’ll explain in detail below, the way a claimant describes … Continue reading
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With the fascinating and interesting issues raised by the court in In Re Farraj (72 A.D.3d 1082), we decided to provide our readers with a succinct and clear explanation about the validity of a Muslim marriage conducted abroad and in … Continue reading
As part of our mission to educate our blog followers about shari’a and its role in American courts, we plan to blog about cases that appear in our digest. The first case we will blog about is a fascinating conflict … Continue reading
If you haven’t already done so, take a look at our mission statement, the newest addition! We are currently in the process of digesting and adding at least 30 more U.S. court cases addressing Islamic law in matrimonial actions. Please … Continue reading
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In our global village, marriages, finance and commercial transactions are crossing borders. U.S. courts, therefore, must regularly interpret and apply foreign law — including Islamic law — to everything from the recognition of foreign divorces and custody decrees to the … Continue reading
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