In an October 13 article, CBSNews.com political reporter Brian Montopoli notes that the “notion that Sharia law is coming to America has been percolating in the conservative media for a while.” Montopoli cites examples from Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Brian Kilmeade, and Newt Gingrich, among others. He later reports that “fears of an outbreak of…
By Bill Sherman, Tulsa World, 10/13/10 A proposed amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution that would ban Shariah law in the state court system is either a pre-emptive strike against encroaching Islamic law in the U.S. or an expression of Islamophobia, depending on who you ask. State Rep. Rex Duncan, R-Sand Springs, authored State Question 755,…
. . .When [Nevada?s Republican Senatorial candidate Sharron] Angle suggested last week that certain American cities like Dearborn, Michigan and Frankford, Texas, have been taken over by a “militant terrorist situation” wherein Muslims have instituted Sharia law upon its residents, many people were left scratching their heads at what she could possibly have meant. It’s…
