Op-ed Roundup: Anti-shari’a law in Kansas isn’t the answer
Nathan Lean, editor-in-chief at Aslan Media, critiques Kansas Governor Sam Brownback for signing an anti-shari’a bill into law last week in a piece for The Huffington Post, calling the bill’s source “a...
View ArticleSteve Chapman: The Shariah Charade
Chicago Times editorialist Steve Chapman penned a cogent and clever column this week examining the recent law passed in Kansas banning the use of any “foreign” laws in Kansas courts, a measure widely...
View ArticleOp-ed Roundup: Anti-shari’a activism in Tennessee brings community together
Patheos shares a piece from Remziya Suleyman, Director of Policy and Administration for the Muslim civic engagement organization, the American Center for Outreach. She comments on the ongoing battle...
View ArticleABA report condemning Kansas anti-shari’a bill absent from discussion
Andy Marso at the Topeka Capitol-Journal reports that legislators who debated and then signed into law a bill banning the use of “foreign laws” in Kansas courts have expressed frustration over not...
View ArticleState bans on “foreign” law, nothing but anti-Muslim bias?
Amanda Bronstad at the National Law Journal provides an in-depth and sweeping look at anti-shari’a legislation across the United States as well as legal opposition manifesting against it. “There's a...
View ArticleRepublicans, Muslims and Islamic law
The Chattanooga, Tennessee Times Free-Press covers comments made by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam in a letter distributed to the TN GOP committee, responding to claims that by hiring Muslim lawyer...
View ArticleOpinion: The Republican platform is missing human rights
Liaquat Ali Khan, Professor of International Law and Human Rights at Washburn University, strongly criticizes the Republic party in an op-ed for The Huffington Post. He comments on the new Republican...
View ArticleWhat does shari’a really mean?
islawmix senior editor Krystina Friedlander comments on the misrepresentation of Islamic law in a piece for the Danforth Center for Religion and Politics online magazine Religion and Politics. In...
View ArticleKansas army base hosts class on Islamic law
Dr. Raj Bhala, a professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of Kansas, is currently teaching classes in Islamic law at an Army officer training college in Fort Leavenworth,...
View ArticleBanning 'Sharia law,' Banning Women's Rights?
Last week we looked briefly at recent cases of state legislation banning ‘foreign law’. Despite the use of the broad term ‘foreign' the bills were, as a highlighted article from last week notes, based...
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