A single boilerplate template authored by David Yerushalmi underpins most US anti-Sharia bills.

Evidence

According to the Haas Institute at the University of California-Berkeley, most of the boilerplate language from these anti-Sharia bills was directly copied from “The American Laws for American Courts Act.” This was the title for a boilerplate template piece of legislation shopped around to conservative state legislatures by the anti-Sharia advocacy group the American Public Policy Alliance, and written by—you guessed it—the aforementioned David Yerushalmi himself. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 629

Categorization

• XREF: Mechanism-level detail of how a national network shapes state legislation — a cross-country/cross-state connection the single-nation studies miss. — connects to: Funded think tanks drafted template anti-Sharia laws making belief a felony — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 622; At least 120 anti-Sharia bills have been introduced across 42 US states since 2010. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 627
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 629

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