by Jamilla King
http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/02/13_states_introduce_bills_to_ban_sharia_law.html
Are you ever afraid that fundamentalist Muslim extremists will take over your state court house? That’s the idea behind the radical right’s peddling of the myth that the Islamic legal code Sharia law will somehow make its way to the United States. The code is usually represented in the West as one mandating that rape victims or battered wives be stoned to death, and more broadly pointed to as evidence Islam’s mythical barbarism. Those sorts of ideas have formed the undercurrent of anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S. for decades.
Now, over a dozen states are taking the same misguided road traveled by voters in Oklahoma who passed a bill to guard against the non-existent threat of Sharia law on America’s shores. The attempt was largely criticized for unfairly targeting and blaming Muslims, a reason cited by Federal Court Judge Vicki Miles-LeGrange in the decision to issue a federal injunction. But that hasn’t stopped more than a dozen other states from forging ahead. Think Progress has this round-up:
http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/02/13_states_introduce_bills_to_ban_sharia_law.html
Are you ever afraid that fundamentalist Muslim extremists will take over your state court house? That’s the idea behind the radical right’s peddling of the myth that the Islamic legal code Sharia law will somehow make its way to the United States. The code is usually represented in the West as one mandating that rape victims or battered wives be stoned to death, and more broadly pointed to as evidence Islam’s mythical barbarism. Those sorts of ideas have formed the undercurrent of anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S. for decades.
Now, over a dozen states are taking the same misguided road traveled by voters in Oklahoma who passed a bill to guard against the non-existent threat of Sharia law on America’s shores. The attempt was largely criticized for unfairly targeting and blaming Muslims, a reason cited by Federal Court Judge Vicki Miles-LeGrange in the decision to issue a federal injunction. But that hasn’t stopped more than a dozen other states from forging ahead. Think Progress has this round-up:
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