resolution - tn Council 4 political justice

RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION to express the _________________________________________ opposition
to Governor Haslam’s approval of and partnering with the TN American Muslim Advisory
Council and the appointment of a Sharia Finance specialist to the Tennessee Department of
Economic and Community Development
WHEREAS, Islam’s doctrine promotes Islam as a complete way of life; and
WHEREAS, Islamic law (All references are from The Reliance of the Traveller, TRT, a
Sharia summary text.) is both “religious Sharia” law (e. g., how to pray, TRT, pg. 58.) and “political
Sharia” law (e. g., criminal law, TRT, pg. 584 ); and
WHEREAS, one of Islam’s stated goals (Koran 9:29) is to impose political Sharia law
around the world including the United States; and
WHEREAS, non-Muslims constitute a separate political class (Sharia has different rules
for different classes of people, TRT, pg. 607) and political Sharia law dictates any and all rights of
the non-Muslim; and
WHEREAS, those Sharia laws that impact the non-Muslim are “political Sharia law”; and
WHEREAS, advancing political Sharia law in the United States under the First
Amendment’s protection for the free exercise of religion will ultimately result in the denial or
abridgement of many rights to non-Muslims including their First Amendment rights to freedom of
speech and freedom of the press; and
WHEREAS, Sharia Finance gives effect to and promotes political Sharia law; and
WHEREAS, the profits from Sharia Finance transactions must be put into “zakat”
(charity tax, TRT, pg. 246) and the Koran (verse 9:50) dictates that charity money may not go to
non-Muslims; and
WHEREAS, in the same verse the Koran dictates that the zakat is to be used for “fighting in Allah’s
cause”—jihad—and increasing the power of Sharia; and
WHEREAS, an example of the use of zakat for jihad, is the successful prosecution in
U.S. federal court of the Islamic charity, the Holy Land Foundation for funneling over $12 million to
Hamas; and

WHEREAS, Governor Haslam has appointed a Sharia Finance specialist to oversee
the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development’s TNTrade program which
is the program designed to increase Tennessee’s exports and the Governor has approved the
formation of the American Muslim Advisory Council ; and
WHEREAS, Governor Haslam has worked to elevate and afford preferential political
status to Sharia adherents in Tennessee thereby abetting the advancement in Tennessee of an
ideology that stands at odds with the U.S. and Tennessee Constitutions; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GOVERNING BOARD OF
___________________________________ that we stand in opposition to Governor Haslam’s
formation of the Tennessee American Muslim Advisory Council and his decree of Tennessee’s use
of Sharia finance (which is part of political Sharia) as acceptable under our U.S. and Tennessee
constitutions.
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