OKLAHOMA
It passed with 70 percent of the vote. It was triggered by a case in New Jersey where a Muslim man assaulted and raped his wife, and the Judge found that he did not have the “Criminal Intent” because he was brought up under Sharia law which allows a husband for beat a wife and force her to have sexual relations if she refused. The New Jersey appellate court overturned the judge’s decisions, but the Oklahoma advocates for the Question argued that this initiative would be sure that no judge in Oklahoma would make a similar judicial decision.
Oklahoma (/ˌoʊkləˈhoʊmə/ (listen)) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by the state of Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New Mexico on the west, and Colorado on the northwest. Partially in the western extreme of the Upland South, it is the 20th-most extensive and the 28th-most populous of the 50 United States. Its residents are known as Oklahomans (or colloquially "Okies"), and its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City.