Bill Aimed at Protecting South Carolina From Foreign Law Introduced in Legislature. Urge North Carolina To Do The Same!

FYI - Similar legislation has already been passed in Tennessee and Lousiana and has been introduced in Oklahoma and Texes.  I have already contacted the Governor's office, the State Attorney General's office, and my state senators and representative.  I ask that you read the below article and then do the same.  Below the article, I have included the text of my letter.  Feel free to use it as a template.

Gov. Bev Perdue:  
The Hon. Bev. Perdue
Office of the Governor
20301 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-0301
Phone: (919)733-4240
Fax: (919)733-2120

governor.office@nc.gov

Attorney General Roy Cooper:

The Hon. Roy Cooper
c/o The Office of the Attorney General of North Carolina
9001 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-9001
Telephone: (919) 716-6400
Fax: (919) 716-6750

Online Contact Form:  http://www.ncdoj.gov/Home/ContactNCDOJ.aspx

North Carolina General Assembly:

Senator/Representative Look Up:  http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/GIS/RandR07/Representation.html

-ADY

Bill Aimed at Protecting S.C. From Foreign Law Introduced in Legislature by W. Thomas Smith Jr. 01/26/2011 COLUMBIA, S.C. – A legislative initiative aimed at preventing “a court or other enforcement authority” from enforcing foreign law in the Palmetto State was introduced today in both the S.C. House and Senate by Rep. Wendy Nanney (who drafted the bill) and Sen. Mike Fair respectively, who say the bill will preempt violations of a person’s constitutional rights resulting from the application of foreign law.  Legislators and other proponents of the bill say America has unique values of liberty which do not exist in foreign legal systems. Yet foreign laws are increasingly finding their way into U.S. court cases, particularly in the area of family law, involving divorce and child custody where, for instance, Islamic Shariah Law has been invoked in several U.S. states. According to Christopher Holton with the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Security Policy (CSP), “There are numerous examples in dozens of states in which parties to such a dispute attempted to invoke Shariah.” David Yersushalmi, general counsel to the CSP, argues it’s not just “patently bad foreign laws [creeping into our court systems],” it’s that once in the system, the state’s police power would be used to “enforce laws that could never pass federal or state constitutional muster.” Fair agrees, which is why he introduced the bill in the Senate. “S.C., like other states, recognizes the need to assert the fact that our state and U.S. constitutions are the basis for civil law in our country,” says Fair. “Some locales have been threatened by the encroachment of foreign law into local, state and or federal law despite obvious violations of our constitutions. A growing concern is the immigration of people who are accustomed to their religion and their civil laws being inextricably connected. For those newcomers to our state, this bill will be helpful to them as they are assimilated into our culture maintaining complete freedom to worship as they please.” Nanney, who introduced the bill in the House with 20 sponsors and co-sponsors, says that “in speaking with several family court judges, I’ve learned that foreign law has been invoked here in S.C.” She adds, that foreign law includes not just foreign religious law, but foreign secular law from various countries. Problem is few South Carolinians – or Americans for that matter – are aware of this, until now.  Similar bills were successfully supported last year in Louisiana and Tennessee. Visit W. Thomas Smith Jr. at http://uswriter.com Mr. Smith is a contributor to Human Events. A former U.S. Marine rifle-squad leader and counterterrorism instructor, he writes about military/defense issues and has covered conflict in the Balkans, on the West Bank, in Iraq and Lebanon. He is the author of six books, and his articles appear in a variety of publications. E-mail him at marine1@uswriter.com.  January 26, 2011 The Honorable Bill Rabon North Carolina General Assembly 16 West Jones Street, Room 2108 Raleigh, NC 27601‑2808 Re: Support For A Foreign Law Protection Amendment. Dear State Senator. Rabon, Good evening Sir.  I hope this message finds you doing well.   As your constituent, I wanted to bring your attention to the below Human Events news article.  I find it troubling that this type of law is even needed, but unfortunately, with the federal government overreaching more and more each day and dedicating more of our taxpayers' money to the United Nations, passing such a law goes a long way in protecting our Constitutional Rights and civil liberties.  It would also aid in upholding the Separation of Church and State, therefore stopping the interjection of  personal beliefs and radical religious law, such as Islamic Shariah Law, into our legal system.   As a former U.S. Marine, four tour Iraq War veteran, and current Army Reservist, I take our national defense and sovereignty very seriously, and like you, I took an oath to uphold our Constitution.  I ask that you introduce or support the introduction and passage of foreign law protection legislation for North Carolina.  Similar bills have already been introduced in Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Louisiana.   In closing, as the new legislative session gets underway, I am sure that you and your colleagues will be very busy.  Therefore, thank you very much for your time.  Any information or feedback that you can provide regarding this issue is greatly appreciated.  I hope to hear from you soon. Respectfully, Mr. Aaron D. Yeargan [Contact Information Included In Original]

Sleeper Cells In North Carolina!

“Terrorist sleeper cells are located primarily in Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Michigan, Florida, California, and Canada. The "sleepers" are prepared to conduct terrorist attacks within the U.S., and nuclear material is available to them. "Prepared" in this instance indicates they have the necessary tools to carry out their attacks and are prepared to die.”

January 26, 2011

Sleeper Cells in the USA

Dave Gaubatz

There is every reason to suspect that we will endure suicide missions by Islamist sleeper cells. They are already in place. They are waiting for the right time. I know this from experience.

I have worked over 15 years as a U.S. Federal Agent, a U.S. State Department Arabic linguist, and the first civilian Federal Agent deployed into Iraq at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.  Since returning from Iraq I have been involved in terrorism analysis, specifically the mindset of terrorists. During my extensive research on sleeper cells I have talked with hundreds of people from the Middle East from all walks of life, and have talked with Iraqi Government officials, Iraqi military and Iraqi police officers.  In addition I have interviewed numerous counter-terrorism specialists in the U.S. and abroad.  In 2006 I trained over 4000 U.S. Law Enforcement officers in Basic Investigative Arabic and counter-terrorism. The conclusions of my research lead to the title of this article.

Before I departed for the Middle East in 2003 I had been assigned to Kirtland AFB, NM.  Kirtland has some of the best scientists in the world working on U.S. Government projects.  I had been working closely with these scientists who specialized in nuclear energy, directed energy, laser technology, bio-weapons and more.  I fully understand the impact if suicide bombers begin progressing from conventional explosives to unconventional methods.

The Middle East

In Jan 2003, I was assigned to Arar Air Base Saudi Arabia.  Arar is located near the border of Iraq. My mission was to interact with Saudi military officials in order to determine the support we could expect from the Saudi government, to determine if Iraqis were monitoring the activities of the U.S. forces at Arar, and to infiltrate the encampments of the Bedouin community (Saudis and Iraqis living in the desert of Arar). This involved leaving the relatively safe confines of Arar Air Base and driving to the Bedouin camps. 

It was most important the Saudis did not know we were leaving the compound because they had forbidden us to do so.  Four U.S. special Agents would use our ATV's and/or four wheel drive vehicles to conduct these missions. The Saudi Government had active spies collecting information pertaining to our troop strength, our weapons, and any other intelligence they could obtain. The Saudis were providing the intelligence to the Saudi Government, and we were very confident it was also being passed to Iraqi intelligence. 

During January 2003 and Feb 2003, Saudi Intelligence officers would boast that the American military was overreacting about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.  Their bravery changed as we approached the invasion of Iraq in Mar 2003.  The high-ranking Saudi officers were scrambling to obtain gas masks and other protective equipment.  They knew their equipment was substandard and they wanted U.S.-made protective equipment.  We gave them some of ours.  The Saudi Intelligence officers were visibly frightened about a potential chemical, biological, or nuclear attack and expressed their fears.

While in Iraq we determined the following:

1. Russian activity in Iraq had been rampant several months prior to the war and up until the day before the invasion.

2. Iranians were infiltrating southern Iraq by the thousands and were preparing to assist insurgents in removing U.S. forces from Iraq.

3. We found numerous pieces of evidence indicating WMD were in Iraq before the war began and some were still in Iraq.

4. I and other agents were informed by Iraqis that a civil war would erupt and violence against U.S. forces would increase due to the Iranian and Russian influence.

All of this information was provided through intelligence channels, but was ignored. Today we are seeing the results of our intelligence being ignored in 2003.

Vulnerability at home

Upon returning from Iraq I left Federal Service to pursue a career educating U.S. law enforcement in the U.S.  I wrote a book titled "Arabic for law enforcement and military". During my lectures to local, county, and state law enforcement officers it was revealed the true first line defenders in the U.S. are not trained nor prepared to combat terrorism in the U.S. (through no fault of their own).  The local law enforcement agencies were not receiving adequate funds or assistance from the Federal Government to fight terrorism.  The majority advised they were supposed to be the first line defenders, but in actuality they did not even know what Al-Qaeda meant, and/or could not point out Iraq or Iran on a map. They had no Arabic language training.

I began conducting research and talking with experts from various fields and determined three significant facts that I corroborated by further research:

1. The terrorists groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and Al-Qaeda each had different leaders and to some degree operated in different ways, but they each had the same two goals (destroy Israel and destroy America and any country that supported either).

2.  Our nuclear research centers were very vulnerable to an attack and the potential for a suicide bomber using a dirty radiological bomb from these facilities was and is a high probability. Note: Vic Walter and Brian Ross of ABC News did an excellent report on the lack of security at these facilities. I received an enormous amount of information from individuals associated with Russian nuclear programs that there is nuclear material being sold on the black market and nuclear material is in the hands of Islamic Extremists. 

3. Terrorist sleeper cells are located primarily in Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Michigan, Florida, California, and Canada. The "sleepers" are prepared to conduct terrorist attacks within the U.S., and nuclear material is available to them. "Prepared" in this instance indicates they have the necessary tools to carry out their attacks and are prepared to die.

4. Non profit organizations such as CAIR, ISNA, MANA, MSA, and several other Islamic based groups are in actuality simply fronts for Al Qaeda and Hamas. The leadership within these groups receives funds and training from the Saudi government. The Internal Revenue Service(IRS) allows these groups to operate freely throughout the U.S. and at American’s taxpayer’s expense. Essentially the IRS grants the groups immunity and the authority to train, organize, and prepare for attacks against our country. Why? Because CAIR and other such groups have a confidential informant network much better than even our FBI. CAIR uses contractors such as Corey Saylor (Simple Resolve Company) to place interns into our elected official’s offices, and into organizations such as the IRS.

Terrorist operations are active in the U.S. and are being operated/financed by Al Qaeda throughout the U.S.

 U.S. citizens need to understand there are people trained and prepared to carry our suicide missions in the U.S. and nothing are off limits.  Churches, malls, and even the schools our children attend are not off limits to suicide bombers. It is only a relatively short time before the U.S. will begin seeing suicide terrorist missions.

I will continue to research terrorism related issues in the U.S. and Canada and will bring forward the results. Nuclear reactors are located on a large number of major university campuses in the U.S. There locations are not classified and are described on the internet.

Children are the ones who suffer in wartime and I want to prevent any child from ever having to experience a terrorist attack. 

In Feb, 2007, I wrote the above article for ‘American Thinker’. I have updated the information for readers.

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Dave Gaubatz spent 20 years as an active duty USAF (Special Agent/OSI), 3.5 years as a civilian 1811 Federal Agent, trained by the U.S. State Department in Arabic, and was the first U.S. Federal Agent to enter Iraq in 2003. He is also a counterterrorism counterintelligence officer. He is co-author of the book Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America. His website is here, and he can be reached at davegaubatz@gmail.com.

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More On Sharia Law.

FYI - Some good knowledge from the Public Policy Alliance concerning Sharia Law.

-ADY

Public Policy Alliance

Shariah Law

Shariah, often referred to as “Islamic Law,” is in actuality a legal doctrine based on the Quran and Hadiths (sayings and acts of Mohammed),  but one which goes far beyond what Westerners would regard as religious matters or routine legal matters.

Shariah has in fact been introduced into U.S. civil court cases in many states, mostly in the area of family law - see this summary of 17 representative cases from 11 states: Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas.

Shariah covers all aspects of life, including criminal law, domestic law, statecraft and warfare (Jihad). Shariah encompasses personal ethics and legal issues, religion and state governance, this world and the afterlife. Shariah is said to enforce the will of Allah, as opposed to the will of humans. Shariah regulates belief, speech and religious practice, criminal and legal matters, and other fields including finance and war. There is no such thing as a separate secular authority or secular law under doctrinal Shariah, since religion and state are not distinct, but are one.

Shariah is the strict, exclusive law of the land or basis of that law in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Sudan. It is also enforced in Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as enclaves around the world controlled by violent Jihadist organizations. Shariah is either a parallel legal system or partly integrated into the legal systems of the other Islamic-majority nations, such as Egypt and Morocco.  Some pro-Shariah groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood also support democratic elections as long as they result in governments, constitutions, legal systems and societies based on Shariah.

Shariah mandates violent Jihad as a religious obligation.  Violent Jihad’s purpose against non-Muslims or former Muslims is to establish Islam’s rule worldwide. The establishment of Shariah rule is a stated goal of Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Hezbollah, HAMAS, Al Shabaab, Abu Sayaf, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jemaah Islamiya and other Jihadist known or designated terrorist organizations, as well as the Muslim Brotherhood.

Shariah is frequently encountered in family law cases across the USA today; in Shariah-compliant accommodations that may result in discrimination against non-Muslims; and in Shariah-Compliant Finance on Wall Street and in the U.S. government.

Tennessee and Louisiana have passed laws to prevent the infiltration of Shariah into their court systems.

Iraqi Solider Smuggles Ammo Into Training Drill, Kills 2 US Soldiers From Ft. Hood

This is an outrage! The fact that it went under reported makes it that much worse! Please read and pass on!

Iraqi Solider smuggles ammo into training drill, kills 2 US soldiers from Ft. Hood

Texas State Legislator Takes On Sharia Law!

FYI -

*From ACT! For America's Raleigh, NC Chapter EFO, Frank Livingston:

State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler) is trying to stop the spread of Shariah/Islamic law in Texas. According to the Islamic rules of law by Texas Islamic Court;

All parties agree to sign the Texas Islamic Court required legal forms, and each party pays his required fees;

The panel of arbitrators of Texas Islamic Court will be formed according to the rules and regulations of Texas Islamic Court. However, the parties agree and suggest the following names for the panel:

Mujahid Bakhash, the Imam of the Islamic Association of Tarrant County, Fort Worth, Texas. .Main El-quda, the Imam of the Islamic Society of Arlington, Arlington,Texas..Abdel Salam Abu-Nar, the Imam of Dar Assalam Islamic Center, Arlington, Texas;

Each Party will submit all of his documents, exhibits, and evidence to Texas Islamic Court;

The parties agree that the Ruling of the Texas Islamic Court in the above mentioned Cause Numbers is Binding, and Final, and no party will take any appeal or future legal action of any matter afterwards.

Look up the Court of Appeals, Second District of Texas has rule3d on a 2008 case, NO. 2-02-415-CV, JABRI v. QADDURA

Saadallah JABRI and Aida Jabri, Appellants, v. Jamal QADDURA, Appellee.

Rola Qaddura, Appellant, v. Jamal Qaddura and Osama Qaddura, Appellees.

2-02-415-CV, 2-02-416-CV. Nos.

-- May 08, 2003

You might want to log onto the Houston Chronicle article and comment because this is going to keep coming up in each state that proposes it!http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/7392985.html

Reject proposal banning Sharia

By THOMAS S. KIDD
HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Jan. 22, 2011, 4:07PM

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Last week, Texas state Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, proposed a Texas state constitutional amendment that would prevent Texas courts from applying "any religious or cultural law." Many Texans are understandably concerned about the threat posed by Muslim jihadists around the world who believe in imposing Sharia, the sacred law ofIslam, wherever possible. However, this is no way to address that Muslim threat. This amendment not only sends the wrong message to Muslims in Texas; it sets an ironic precedent that "religious and cultural" values have no place in our laws.

Berman is following Oklahoma, where voters adopted a similar amendment in the November election. That amendment was subsequently blocked by a federal judge, who ruled it violated the First Amendment. My concern is not so much that this initiative violates the First Amendment — an overused argument, if there ever was one - but that the law would officially oppose the religion of a significant number of Texans, and that it makes an absurd distinction between law, culture and religion.

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims live in Texas, with especially large numbers in Houston. (Pakistanis probably represent the largest Muslim group in Texas.) It is an observable fact that the vast majority of Texas Muslims live in peace with their nonMuslim neighbors, and have no practical interest in imposing Sharia on Texans. Of course, there are exceptions to the rule, most obviously the accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hassan, who infamously murdered 13 people, apparently in the name of Islam. Muslims worldwide have to contend with the fact that among their one billion adherents, there is certainly a jihadist element that kills in Islam's name, and would impose Muslim law on others.

But does that reality require the state of Texas to adopt what, by any reasonable standard, is an anti-Muslim amendment? No, this is hardly the message we should send to our Muslim citizens. Instead, we should focus on rigorously rooting out terror cells in America and abroad, and controlling immigration so that radicals such as the "underwear bomber," Umar Abdulmutallab, are never admitted to the country. But we have several million Muslims already living in America, and communicating religious hostility toward them as official government policy is totally inappropriate. Doing so will only help radicalize those already on the margins of jihadism.

Furthermore, a look at the text of this amendment shows just how ill-conceived it is. Not apply any "religious or cultural law"? Many religious conservatives and traditional jurists might wonder what other kind of law there is. To be fair, the amendment implies that courts should only consider law approved through normal legislative processes or a referendum, but in the end, this amendment implies that religion and culture cannot influence our law as Texans.

The problem is that religion and culture inform all law. Our laws emerge from a common Judeo-Christian, or one might say Abrahamic, tradition of morality. This is especially true of criminal law. We know that murder and stealing are wrong because our time-honored religious principles have told us so, from Moses' descent from Mount Sinai to today. Texans overwhelmingly approved a ban on same-sex marriage in 2005 - would anyone deny that much of the support for this amendment emerged from religious conviction? Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Surely all Texans would agree that no religious minority should impose its specific requirements on us all, whether this minority's requirements emerge from a Christian sect, Mormonism, Judaism or Islam. I suspect that we can agree, for instance, that we should not pass a law requiring all women in Texas to wear a head covering (thehijab), nor should judges make a ruling to that effect. But is that a real threat? I see no evidence that it is. A more realistic challenge comes from those who say that faith should have no role whatsoever in American public life. It is highly ironic, showing just how poorly framed the amendment is, that this strict separation of faith from law is just what Berman's amendment seems to endorse.

Kidd is a senior fellow at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University and the author of "God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution."

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/7392985.html

Frank Livingston, EFO

ACT! for America - Raleigh Chapter

NY: Teens Desperate to Help Stop Honor Killings.

NY: Teens Desperate to Help Stop Honor Killings

Posted on January 23, 2011 by creeping

By Kendra Eaglin
January 21, 2011

Buffalo, NY (WKBW)

Young Iranian girls are forced into abusive, temporary marriages. Their heart wrenching personal stories were shared by muslim author Nadia Shahram at Buffalo Seminary all girls high school, and the stories struck a chord with the teens even though they live in a completely different world.

“Reading about how girls younger than me are getting married off and how they’re abused by their husbands and beaten and really looked down on by all of society, that seemed really wrong,” said Eliza Hopkins, a sophomore at Buffalo Seminary.

“It’s a horrible thing when you can’t really turn for people to help, and I just hope that those girls know that here in Buffalo Seminary they have support,” said Jourdan Green, also a sophomore at Buffalo Seminary.

Shahram spoke to the students about countless cases of so called honor killings that happen right here in the U.S., perpetrated by muslim men who kill their daughters, wives and other relatives for being to westernized or disobeying their husbands.

Shahram was driven to explore the topic after the 2009 beheading death of Assiya Hassan in Orchard Park.

“She did everything, every strong young woman should do in such an abusive situation, but still, she was killed,” said Shahram.

Although Shahram appeared as a guest on Hassan’s Muslim-American television network, she did not know Assiya very well. But after attending everyday of the trial for her murder this week, “I respect her so much more now that I’m coming to know in detail, she really tried her best to get out,” said Shahram.

Video at the link above, and videos on Islamic Honor Killing below:

Honor Killing in America (video)

Honor Killing explained by Muslims (video)

Extradition Approved for Muslim Accused of NYC Subway Plot.

Extradition Approved for Muslim Accused of NYC Subway Plot

Posted on January 23, 2011 by creeping

Muslims waging jihad against Americans is so commonplace now that a few sentences is all they get. How many incidents go totally unreported?

LONDON — A British court on Friday approved the extradition of a terror suspect wanted in the United States in what the authorities say was a plot to detonate explosives on the New York subway.

City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court says that the suspect, Abid Naseer, can be sent to the United States to stand trial for his alleged role in a terror campaign that the officials said would have struck at targets in Britain, Norway and the United States.

The authorities had previously connected the plot to a foiled plan to detonate explosives aboard a New York subway and a suspected plot to bomb a busy shopping area in the northern England city of Manchester.

Mr. Naseer can appeal the decision.

via Extradition Approved for Man Accused of Subway Plot – NYTimes.com.