Does Obama have a Muslim past and why does it matter? Muslims are suggesting that Sharia "Koran Law" be added to our Constitutional law and practiced side by side. Sharia law uses public beatings, decapitation, limb removal and other very unacceptable punishments, is this what Americans want in our country? Is this a far fetched idea? Sharia law is now being used in the United Kingdom and public beatings have been recorded. The possibility of Obama's past Muslim upbringing influencing him to sign into law the Muslim Sharia law is very frightening.