Do you believe that Sharia Law is compatible with our Constitution?

Simple answer........NO!!!!!

Give me a break. In no way is it compatible and yet we are bowing down to any thing that is Islam because of our Muslin President.

This is a simple question with a highly complex set of answers. At some point you may find one or two aspects of my response seemingly disagreeable, but I beg your indulgence. Please read the whole thing before you judge it or me...

There is a fundamental difference between the legal basis of Sharia law and American law forming an abyss that cannot be bridged. (I cannot speak to the laws of other nations, but Europeans and British citizens may find some similarities.) That being said, there are some aspects of Sharia law which may be enforceable in US courts within a very limited scope.

First, the fundamental difference... America and its Constitution are steeped in Judeo-Christian ethics that all people have inalienable rights that make them self-governing. Islam does not accept these. In its view, people cannot govern themselves and must necessarily be governed by others, principally clerics. For example, they believe that men cannot resist certain temptations which is why women are blamed when men succumb to their baser instincts. There is no accommodation that could ever reconcile these fundamental differences. Americans will be held accountable for their transgressions regardless of the temptations. That being said, it is clear that the principles of the Declaration of Independence are an anathema to a Muslim. Likewise, it is clear that the fundamental rights protected under the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution, could never be acceptable to a Muslim.

How then do Muslims live in the United States and exist as both devout adherents to their faith and good citizens? The answer is simple: They can't. Those who live in America are breaking either Sharia or American laws. Thus, Muslims who live a law-abiding American citizens are apostates to truly devout Muslims.

In the beginning, I said that, despite the foregoing, it might be possible for some aspects of Sharia law to be enforceable in American courts. I believe that is true. For example, some aspects of Sharia law apply to commercial contracts and are different that American laws that are traditionally applicable to contracts. Indeed, contract laws may vary from state-to-state in the United States. Thus, when two parties residing in different states enter into a contract, they may specify as part of the contract as to which state's laws shall be used in interpreting the contract in the event of a dispute. Likewise, they may specify special provisions to their contract which may be applicable to their transaction so long as they do not violate criminal laws in either state. I see no reason why two American Muslims (or any American who chose to do so) could not specify to have Sharia law applied by a court or arbitrator in the even of a dispute given the same restrictions.

I'm sure some legal scholars will take exception to my comments or otherwise "fine tune" them. I'd love to hear their points of view.

Are we seriously considering this for rational intelligent discussion? Its like discussing whether beating your wife or harming children is compatible with the Constitution under the guise of Religion. Religious practice in not above or outside of the Law, nor is it free from the scrutiny and outlaw of any type of law that is convoluted by the twisting of religious ideology. There is absolutely nothing that is lawful about Sharia Law...nothing.

Not on your life. Or mine.

If they want sharia law then they need to go back to their countries of origin. We no more recognize sharia, than they do the constitution. And to try to "make" it work is asinine. Some thing just don't mix.

Simple answer, No

Sharia Law is not compatible with the Constitution. Now if all the sudden Sharia Law changes then maybe, but as it stands now, no it does not.

According to the Sharia law:

• Theft is punishable by amputation of the right hand.
• Criticizing or denying any part of the Quran is punishable by death.
• Criticizing or denying Muhammad is a prophet is punishable by death.
• Criticizing or denying Allah, the moon god of Islam is punishable by death.
• A Muslim who becomes a non-Muslim is punishable by death.
• A non-Muslim who leads a Muslim away from Islam is punishable by death.
• A non-Muslim man who marries a Muslim woman is punishable by death.
• A man can marry an infant girl and consummate the marriage when she is 9 years old.
• Girls' clitoris should be cut (per Muhammad's words in Book 41, Kitab Al-Adab, Hadith 5251).
• A woman can have 1 husband, but a man can have up to 4 wives; Muhammad can have more.
• A man can unilaterally divorce his wife but a woman needs her husband's consent to divorce.
• A man can beat his wife for insubordination.
• Testimonies of four male witnesses are required to prove rape against a woman.
• A woman who has been raped cannot testify in court against her rapist(s).
• A woman's testimony in court, allowed only in property cases, carries half the weight of a man's.
• A female heir inherits half of what a male heir inherits.
• A woman cannot drive a car, as it leads to fitnah (upheaval).
• A woman cannot speak alone to a man who is not her husband or relative.
• Meat to be eaten must come from animals that have been sacrificed to Allah - i.e., be Halal.
• Muslims should engage in Taqiyya and lie to non-Muslims to advance Islam.

-http://www.billionbibles.org/sharia/sharia-law.html

No it is not. By definition, Sharia law abrogates the Constitution. The Koran becomes the law of the land and on that basis, justice is defined as that which the Koran prescribes. The so-called religion of peace will impose "peace" on the population - the absence of opposition to their faith.

May God - the one who gave us the right to choose whether or not to serve Him, even to oppose Him - continue to bless and protect our people.

no it will not just like we can not live by the old testiment