Texas: 200 Imams Taught How To Run Sharia Courts

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Texas: 200 imams taught how to run sharia courts


Posted on November 2, 2010 by creeping

If everything is really bigger in Texas, we have a very large problem Houston. Hat tip to LogansWarning, who has more on the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America in Helping Muslims Live by Sharia:



AMJA’s 7th Annual Imam Workshop in Houston Texas



Topic 1: The issue of arbitration through the lens of sharee’ah



Lecture One: The concept of arbitration in sharee’ah (definition and general principles)



Lecturer: Dr. Main Al-Qudah



Follow Up: Dr. Salah Al-Sawy



Points of Discussion:



•Defining Arbitration, its role in preserving the identity, & the arbitration of sharee’ah

•The legislation of arbitration, its types, & fields of applications

•The difference between it and other judicial mechanisms

Lecture Two: The concept of arbitration in sharee’ah (the arbitrary system, its guidelines, and procedures in sharee’ah)



Lecturer: Dr. Waleed Al-Maneesy



Follow Up: Dr. Hatem Al-Haj



Points of Discussion:



•Agreeing on arbitration

•Appointing/Removing arbiters, arbitration period, & burdens of arbitration

•Arbitrary decisions, their legitimacy, and the lawfulness of dissent

Lecture Three: The judicial values for arbitration and arbiters



Lecturer: Dr. Muhammad Na’eem Yaaseen



Follow Up: Dr. Salah Al-Sawy



Points of Discussion:



•A reading of Umar’s letter to Abu Musa Al-Ash’ary on judiciaries

Lecture Four: A reading of the assembly’s treatise on social issues [Part 1]



Lecturer: Dr. Muwaffak Al-Ghaylany



Follow Up: Dr. Salah Al-Sawy



Lecture Five: A reading of the assembly’s treatise on social issues [Part 2]



Lecturer: Dr. Waleed Basyouni



Follow Up: Dr. Salah Al-Sawy



Forum: A comparison between the assembly’s treatise on social issues and family laws in American society.



Participants: Dr. Salah Al-Sawy, Dr. Muhammad Adam Ash-Shaykh, Dr. Sayyid Ibrahim (Michigan), Shaykh Mujahid Bikhash.



What is intended by this forum? This forum seeks to acquaint the esteemed Imams with the most important points of difference between certain fiqhi matters and the prevalent laws in these lands pertaining to the family issues that the treatise discussed.



Topic 2: The issue of arbitration through the lens of legality



What is intended by this topic? The lectures in this topic revolve around drawing out the arbitrary procedures that will allow its decisions to be legally legitimized, and so that resorting to it isn’t a waste of time and money. This section works towards taking the arbitrary system and transcending with it beyond chaos and disorganization into serious planning and legal backing, leaving with detailed practical steps on route to that.



Lecture Six: The legal structure of arbitrary systems and their decisions



Lecture Seven: The authority of the arbitrary committee’s decision, renouncing its decisions, and legal oversight over it.



Lecturers: Dr. Muhammad Adam Ash-Shaykh, Muhammad Bakhash, Dr. Sayyid Ibraheem



Topic 3: The issue of arbitration between theory and practice



What is intended by this topic? Discussion on this topic has two objectives:



•Practically training them on the steps of successful arbitration by presenting to them a realistic example that may be replicated in different states. It includes detailed suggestions of practical legal steps towards arbitration of sharee’ah.

•Pointing out the importance of family counseling as a necessary first step towards solving marital conflict and seeking arbitration in it.

Lecture 8: Marriage Counseling & The Doorway to Arbitration



Lecturer: Dr. Muhammad Sadiq [Psychiatrist]



Lecture 9: How to run an arbitrary council [Part 1]



Lecturer: TBA [To Be Determined]



Lecture 10: How to run an arbitrary council [Part 2 – via video conference]



Lecturer: Dr. Nuh Al-Qudah



LW notes that there already is an Islamic Court in Texas, one of the very first posts here at Creeping Sharia, and they provide numerous examples of the AMJA’s sharia rulings, but here’s one by one of the speakers at this event:



A fatwa issued in August 2007 by the secretary-general of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America (AMJA), Dr. Sheikh Salah Al-Sawy, states that marriage between a Muslim woman and a non-Muslim man is forbidden and invalid, and that children born of such a union are illegitimate