{"id":5119,"date":"2010-11-05T12:34:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T16:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2010-11-05T13:06:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T17:06:45","slug":"cair-challanges-constitutionally-of-state-question-755","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=5119","title":{"rendered":"CAIR challenges constitutionality of State Question 755"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Law Enforcement Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> November 4, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the November 2, 2010 election, over seventy percent of Oklahoma  voters voted &#8220;yes&#8221; on State Question 755 (SQ 755), thereby preventing  the use of Sharia law in Oklahoma courts. CAIR-Oklahoma announced that  it will file a lawsuit against SQ 755 because they believe the ballot  measure is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>CAIR says SQ 755 will infringe on the constitutional rights of  ordinary  Oklahomans in their daily lives &#8212; including the right to wear  religious head  scarves, choose Islamic marriage contracts or to be  buried according to one&#8217;s  religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>CAIR-OK Executive Director Muneer Awad&#8217;s lawsuit, which  is based on his own Shariah-compliant will, says SQ 755  violates the  First Amendment&#8217;s Establishment Clause that bars government bodies  from  making laws &#8220;respecting the establishment of religion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-muslims-lawsuit-says-okla-amendment-violates-constitution-106718503.html\">http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-muslims-lawsuit-says-okla-amendment-violates-constitution-106718503.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SQ755.pdf\">(PDF Backup)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law Enforcement Influence Operation Date: November 4, 2010 Description: In the November 2, 2010 election, over seventy percent of Oklahoma voters voted &#8220;yes&#8221; on State Question 755 (SQ 755), thereby preventing the use of Sharia law in Oklahoma courts. CAIR-Oklahoma announced that it will file a lawsuit against SQ 755 because they believe the ballot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,126,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-law-enforcement","category-io-statelocal-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}