The Islamic Education Center of Tampa forced out several of its trustees back in 2002. The trustees contested their eviction, and claim they sat down with an Islamic scholar to arbitrate their complaints. The arbitrator ruled in their favor, but the mosque denied this arbitration was properly conducted, and did not accept the decision. The trustees took their case to the Florida courts, which suited the mosque just fine. Control of a substantial amount of funding is at stake.
On March 3, Hillsborough Circuit Judge Richard Nielsen announced that he would decide the case by consulting shari’a law to determine whether the arbitration was conducted properly, and should therefore be binding. Only if his adventure in Islamic scholarship determines the arbitration was invalid will he revert to using Florida civil law to determine the ultimate outcome of the case.
Read more here: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=42446
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