conuly

You're right that this is offensive and ridiculous. Looking at the details of your comment, you've confused a minor issue--"sharia" is the set of Islamic laws. The Jewish equivalent is "halakha." A beit din is a rabbinic court, for resolving some kinds of disagreements about halakhic issues. The Islamic equivalent seems to be called "a sharia court"; if there's a specific Arabic term, I don't know it.

Any set of specialized rules is likely to have a system for resolving disputes. Is the meat in that restaurant really ok under religious law, or was there some kind of mistake or fraud? Observant customers want to know, and there's no way to figure it out without checking with experts in the relevant religious law.

Tennessee is not the first place that tried to forbid practice of Islamic law. A traditional approach to enforcing such a policy was to require everybody to eat pork. And to eat during Ramadan. And to work on Friday. (They were also very suspicious of people who didn't eat pork on Yom Kippur, or who didn't work on Saturday. Oppression always seems to hit more than one group at a time.)

This bill doesn't have anything to do with courts. It is a direct attack on religious practice. It's obviously unconstitutional...but it's outrageous that it could even be proposed.