Murray v. Geithner

Kevin Murray is suing our Treasury Secretary and the Federal Reserve Board. Mr. Murray, represented by David Yerushalmi and the Thomas More Law Center, claims that the government is violating the Establishment Clause of the Constitution by allowing AIG to sell sharia compliant insurance products.

AIG is 80% government owned now, so AIG actions are government actions. The suit claims that in offering sharia compliant products, the government is illegally promoting a particular religion, Islam. For more on sharia compliant finance and a copy of the legal documents, go here.

The government filed a motion to dismiss on two grounds, lack of standing and that the government had no intent to promote religion.

U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence P. Zatkoff recently denied the government motion to dismiss, saying: “In this case, the fact that AIG is largely a secular entity is not dispositive: The question in an as-applied challenge is not whether the entity is of a religious character, but how it spends its grant.” Kendrick, 487 U.S. at 624–25 (Kennedy J., concurring). The suit will go forward.

Given the nature of sharia (Islamic law), sharia compliance in any context is inappropriate in America. That the American government should support sharia in any way is a scandal, and illegal as sedition in addition to violating the Establishment Clause.

Islamic law is illegal in America because, unlike all other religions, the Koran (K. 9: 5-16) contains what is interpreted to be a religious duty on all Muslims to convert all national governments to Islam and does not preclude the use of violence in doing it.

This suit may turn out to be the first shot in the war against sharia in America.


Originally posted on 5/29/09