A single template anti-Sharia bill was introduced 216 times in 43 states

Evidence

Inside the DC Beltway, Gaffney and his Center for Security Policy are influential players in counterterrorism circles. Gaffney’s work focuses on convincing the public and government officials that Sharia law is not a religious code but rather “a totalitarian ideology cloaked in religious garb.” Accordingly, the Center for Security Policy’s 2010 report, Shariah: The Threat to America, called on states to pass anti-Sharia laws that would effectively prohibit Muslims from practicing their religion. The report buttressed the national campaign led by David Yerushalmi, founder of the Society of Americans for National Existence (SANE), who drafted a template anti-Sharia bill introduced 216 times in at least forty-three states. SANE warned Americans that a “creeping Sharia” would fully encroach into US courts such that Islamic law would eventually supersede the Constitution. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 804

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘creeping Sharia’ campaign parallels the anti-communist ‘creeping socialism’ rhetoric and the template-bill strategy used across state legislatures for other culture-war measures. — connects to: Anti-sharia bills sought to criminalize mosque attendance by defining Islam as ideology; Twenty-three states adopted an anti-sharia model bill authored by a fringe conspiracy theorist. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 290; Anti-Sharia legislation spread across 43 states via one network’s fabricated data (+1 more)
• SEED: Angle: the efficiency of template legislation — one lawyer’s model bill replicated 216 times shows how a tiny well-funded network can dominate state policymaking nationwide.