Kulturkampf

[Potato]

How do you ban law that doesn't exist?

I mean, it does, you're allowed to use Sharia Law to settle disputes if both parties agree to it. These laws ban that.

These types of laws are dumb because you're not allowed to use outside law to decide things that are illegal under US law so they aren't ways to get around the law. I don't really see a problem if people want to have their disputes handled by arbitration in Sharia or Xeer or anything else. It's mostly done for business disputes IIRC.

I actually remember a case here in Michigan where two Muslims agreed to Sharia arbitration but neither actually knew what Sharia would proscribe and it wound up back in regular court when they found out. Mattress business or something. There was a whole "SHARIA LAW COMES TO MICHIGAN" scare about it and they both wound up hating it.

I would assume that any agreement that contravenes US law would not be allowed. Therefore it doesn't exist.