NEWS: “Right-Wing Activist Says CIA Director Nominee John Brennan is a Secret Muslim”
Tweet From Salon.com by Jillian Rayfield A former FBI agent and current anti-Islam activist believes that John Brennan, President Obama’s pick to head the CIA, is secretly a Muslim and therefore “unfit for duty” in the government. On Friday, John Guandolo, the vice president of the Virginia-based Strategic Engagement Group (SEG), appeared on the Boca...
NEWS: “Florida Anti-Sharia Legislation May Outlaw Orthodox Jewish Divorces”
Tweet From Think Progress By Eli Clifton on Mar 7, 2012 at 2:19 pm David Yerushalmi A Florida Senate panel’s hurried decision last week to pass a measure banning the use of Sharia law may, in practice, serve to prevent Orthodox Jewish couples from using Jewish religious courts to arbitrate their divorces. The bill, the Application of Foreign Law...
NEWS: “Minnesota Muslims Protest Anti-Sharia Senate Bill”
Tweet From WCCO-TV (Minnesota) Reporting Susie Jones MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The Minnesota Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, along with interfaith leaders, are standing together against a Senate bill they say discriminates against them. Munazza Humayun, civil rights coordinator for CAIR, says the new “anti-Sharia” bill threatens religious freedom. She says it was written using a template...
CNN: “Muslim Public Service Campaign Looks To Erase Fear About Sharia Law”
Tweet From CNN The organization’s PSA features Rais Bhuiyan, a man who was shot in the face as part of a revenge shootings post 9/11 but went on to lobby for the right of his shooter. March 2nd, 2012 05:00 AM ET By Dan Merica, CNN Washington (CNN) – A major American Muslim group is embarking on a...
NEWSPAPER COLUMN: “Sharia: The Not-So-Scary Truth” by Professor Jon Pahl
Tweet From Philly.com by Jon Pahl What’s so scary about sharia? According to a recent federal appeals court decision, not much. A 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling this month effectively blocks implementation of Oklahoma’s “Save Our State” constitutional amendment. Passed by 70 percent of the state’s voters in 2010, the measure “forbids courts...
NEWSPAPER: “Exploring Common Links Between Shariah and Jewish Law”
Tweet From The Jewish Daily Forward Despite Rifts, Ancient Legal Codes May Offer Common Ground By Ben Sales Published November 02, 2011, issue of November 11, 2011. Abraham and Isaac — or, as some would have it, Ibrahim and Ishmael — took center stage when a panel including Muslim imams and some of America’s most prominent Modern...
HUFFINGTON POST: “Top 5 Things You Should Know About Shariah Law”
Tweet From Huffington Post by Qasim Rashid Muslim Writers Guild of America November 4, 2011 1. What does Shariah mean? Shariah is the law of the Qur’an and literally means “A path to life giving water.” In fact, the word Yarrah (i.e. the root of the Hebrew word Torah) means precisely the same thing. Therefore, Shariah is actually...
MAGAZINE: “The Fear of a Sharia Planet”
Tweet From Miller-McCune Magazine While laws preventing Islamic legal codes from supplanting American jurisprudence are often thrown out, that isn’t stopping Sharia from becoming a wedge issue in the 2012 election. By Arsalan Iftikhar The “supremacy clause” of the U.S. Constitution is one of the first things taught in many first-year law school courses. Article VI, Clause 2...
