The bill that some lawmakers in Arkansas were trying to push through during the fiscal session targeting Islamic laws has now failed.
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — The bill that some Arkansas state lawmakers were trying to push through during the fiscal session targeting Islamic laws has now failed.
The bill failed making it out of committee on Wednesday afternoon, and will not advance.
Amid the war with Iran, there was a growing push to prevent any chance of the strict Islamic doctrine known as Sharia Law from ever coming to America. In extreme cases, it’s a harsh code of laws used in some Muslim countries.
Earlier this week, we spoke to Muslim leaders in the Little Rock community, and they said no one’s asking for more or fewer state and federal laws, and they aren’t interested in the business of real estate to expand.
Meanwhile, House Bill 1016 was aimed to regulate how groups own residential property, require disputes be handled in U.S. courts only, target business-owned housing arrangements, and would have blocked or paused certain developments.
The bill was referencing a project from 2010, when a group of African American Muslims wanted to build their own housing compound, but there wasn’t enough support for it then, and it never went anywhere.
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