Designated terrorist group CAIR IS calling on Delaware state residents who value religious liberty (who don’t realize that several state court justices have already considered sharia law in their decisions) to contact their elected representatives in the Delaware General Assembly to urge them to oppose anti-Islam legislation introduced by what CAIR calls an “Islamophobic” state senator.

The bill is scheduled for consideration before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, June 12.

CAIR Introduced last month by Senator Dave Lawson, Senate Bill 99 declares it the public policy of Delaware to protect citizens from the application of “foreign law.” While it does not explicitly mention Sharia (Islamic) law, the bill is directly modeled after legislation authored by American Laws for American Courts (ALAC), which explicitly targets Sharia.

On Friday, CAIR Director of Government Affairs Robert McCaw sent a letter to the Delaware Senate Judicial Committee Chairman Darius J. Brown urging him to oppose this Islamophobic bill. In part, the letter states:

“This legislation has its roots in Islamophobia, is sponsored by someone with a history of anti-Muslim bias and will only marginalize your state’s Muslim population. For these reasons, I respectfully request that you and the Senate Judicial Committee oppose the SB 99 and not waste any more of the legislature’s time with this redundant and bigoted measure. The Assembly’s time would be better spent focusing its attention on identifying solutions and creating programs that enhance the state’s overall wellbeing.”

Attempts to outlaw the application of Sharia or other bodies of law in judicial proceedings grew out of a concerted push by known Islamophobe David Yerushalmi. Anti-foreign law bills did not exist prior to Yerushalmi’s efforts to raise alarm bells about Sharia and draw their language, often verbatim, from a piece of model legislation authored by Yerushalmi in 2010. Now, several states have passed anti-foreign (sharia) law bills.

The reason for CAIR’s opposition stems from the fact that when foreign laws and foreign legal doctrines that arise in U.S. court cases appear to violate our fundamental constitutional rights, they often originate from countries that predominantly use the theo-political-legal-military doctrine known as shariah as a foundation of their native legal systems. This was detailed in the Center for Security Policy’s report published in 2014 entitled: Shariah in American Courts: The Expanding Incursion of Islamic Law in the U.S. Legal System

Since 2010, elected state representatives have introduced at least 221 anti-Muslim “foreign law” bills in 44 state legislatures. As of 2018, 15 of these bills are law in 13 states, covering nearly a quarter of the nation.

Delaware Online Tarek Ewis, imam of the Masjid Isa Ibn-e-Maryam mosque in Newark, and Naveed Baqir, executive director of the Delaware Council on Global and Muslim Affairs, were invited to give the Senate invocation.

Lawson and Sen. Colin Bonini, R-Dover South, stepped out of the chamber for the prayer. They re-entered when the speakers had finished, and Lawson gave a brief speech, saying he “took great exception” to the reading from the Quran,

After Lawson’s comments, the Senate proceeded as normal, debating and passing several bills. But before the chamber adjourned later in the evening, President Pro Tempore David McBride, D-New Castle, halted, saying he felt “there is complicity in remaining silent.”

Afterward, Lawson said he thought McBride was “ignorant to what’s going on.” He said the Quran includes passages about killing “infidels” and pointed to some majority-Muslim countries that restrict women’s rights and persecute Christians, among other evils.