Sharia Charades 0
Despite what you hear in the wingnutosphere, there is no chance that Sharia low could ever trumph U. S. civil and criminal law. So why the fuss, other than to stir up hate to be harvested for votes?
Steve Chapman sees parallels between the rightwing hysteria over Sharia law and times from our history.
We’ve come a long way in religious tolerance. Or maybe not. The belief that Catholics are irredeemably alien and disloyal has given way to the fear that Muslims pose a mortal threat to our way of life.
That distrust is behind a push in state legislatures to forbid courts from applying Islamic Shariah law in any case.
