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<http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/sharia-law-prevents-muslims- in-america-from-adopting/> Sharia law prevents Muslims in America from adopting <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/author/creeping/> creeping | November 29, 2010 at 10:00 AM | Tags: <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=creeping-sharia> Creeping Sharia, <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=islam> islam, <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=legal> Legal, <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=life> Life, <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=media> Media, <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=muslim> Muslim, <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=news> News, <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=politics> Politics, <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=random> Random, <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=religion> Religion, <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=sharia> Sharia, <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=travel> travel | Categories: <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?category_name=creeping-sharia> Creeping Sharia, <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?category_name=media> Media, <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?category_name=news> News, <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?category_name=politics> Politics, <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?category_name=religion> Religion, <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?category_name=sharia> Sharia, <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?category_name=stealth-jihad> Stealth Jihad | URL: <http://wp.me/pbU4v-7gX> http://wp.me/pbU4v-7gX Sharia law prevents Muslims in America from <http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/sharia-law-prevents-muslims- in-america-from-adopting/> adopting Posted on November 29, 2010 by creeping But weren't the Muslims who emigrated to America here because they wanted to escape sharia law? There are a lot of subtle clues in this WAPO article. Clues that indicate that sharia law is not compatible with secular, American laws; clues that indicate Muslims belief in one way of life for believers (Muslims) and another intolerable way of life for non-believers (non-Muslims); and that there are Muslims living in America who not only abide by sharia law but who are also working to make sharia applicable in the U.S. via Muslim orphans caught between Islamic, Western law <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/28/AR201011280 1656.html> . Helene Lauffer knew Muslim children - orphaned, displaced, neglected - needed homes in the United States. She knew American Muslim families wanted to take them in. But Lauffer, associate executive director of Spence-Chapin, one of the oldest adoption agencies in the country, couldn't bring them together. The problem was a gap between Western and Islamic law. Traditional, closed adoption violates Islamic jurisprudence, which stresses the importance of lineage. Instead, Islam has a guardianship system called kafalah that resembles foster care, yet has no exact counterpart in Western law. The differences have left young Muslims with little chance of finding a permanent Muslim home in America. So Lauffer sought out a group of Muslim women scholars and activists, hoping they could at least start a discussion among U.S. Muslims about how adoption and Islamic law could become compatible. "At the end of the day, it's about trying to find families for kids," said Lauffer. Lauffer is not alone in raising the issue. As Muslim communities become more established in the United States, pressure is building for a re-examination of Islamic law on adoption. Refugee children from Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere are being resettled here. Muslim couples who can't conceive want to adopt but don't want to violate their faith's teachings. State child welfare agencies that permanently remove Muslim children from troubled homes usually can't find Muslim families to adopt them because of the restrictions in Islamic law. The Muslim women scholars Lauffer consulted in New York, who meet annually as a shura (advisory) council, tackled the complexities of modesty rules inside the home. They debated whether Muslim adoptees in the West could be considered Islamically "unmarriageable" to their siblings or guardians, since Western governments classify adoptees the same as blood relatives. The shura council will soon release a statement on the issue through its organizing body, the Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality. It's unclear how successful their efforts can be. There is no central authority in Islam to hand down a ruling on adoption. Muslims consult individual scholars, or, in the United States, seek an opinion from an imam at their local mosque. Rachel Zoll reached out to two Islamist groups: the Muslim Brotherhood-linked unindicted co-conspirator ISNA <http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/08/us_justice_dept_to_co-sponsor.php> 's Ingrid Mattson, and WISE <http://www.wisemuslimwomen.org/about/> - a group founded by Faisal Rauf <http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7540> 's American Society for Muslim Advancement. What a better way to show how sharia law is creeping in the United States than to feature a shura council founded by a Muslim who blames the U.S. for 9/11 and wants the U.S. to become sharia-compliant, and an unindicted co-conspirator to a Hamas-financing case. Will the U.S. change its laws on adoption to appease Muslims? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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