Dale McFeatters: Forget sharia: Hammurabian law is real menace
In 2010, the state of Oklahoma outlawed "sharia," the
legislators knowing nothing about it except that it had
something to do with Muslim law, its supporters knowing of no
instances where it had been invoked in the state, and, indeed,
the state had only 15,000 Muslims.  There was much talk of
preventing terrorism, but the worst act of terror in the state,
the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City that
killed 168 people, was committed by Timothy McVeigh, who was
reared a Roman Catholic. So far as is known, the Oklahoma
legislature made no attempt to outlaw canon law, but the century
is young yet.  The ban spread to such juridical and theological
centers of learning as Tennessee and Alabama, and many other
states have been considering a ban on sharia, whatever sharia is
exactly.  Typically, they overlooked a greater threat --
Hammurabi's Code of Law, a code that has quietly made deep
inroads into this country. The U.S. House of Repres