I've been (marginally) following the case of the six Blackwater soldiers charged with murdering civilians, and this has led to some tongue-in-cheek wonderings which (at least in the case of the first question) have grown more serious. Maybe someone out there in LJ Land can help satiate my curiosity ( Read more... )

It's been a week now since the report about Blackwater owner Erik Prince and the lawyers for Blackwater's sister company Presidential Airways asking a federal court in Florida to rule in their favor in a lawsuit based on Shari'a law. I stated that I figured the conservative pundits who have been so vocal about opposing the introduction of Shari'a ( Read more... )

I don't have a problem with people complaining about Islamic law being cited in Western courts, because I have a problem with these citations myself--the same way I do if someone wants to cite the Ten Commandments in court ( Read more... )