Anti-Shari’a proponents misdefined the term as a totalitarian doctrine

Evidence

Proponents of anti-Shari‘a legislation defined Shari‘a law as a “‘totalitarian ideology’ and ‘legal-political-military doctrine,’ committed to annihilating Western civilization as we known it today.” Relying on principal Islamophobic baselines that frame Islam as a competing political ideology (sometimes referred to as “Islamo-fascism”) as much as religious scripture, Shari‘a law abolitionists authored a model statute that “would prohibit state judges from considering foreign laws or rulings that violate constitutional rights in the United States.” The model statute, titled “American Law for American Courts,” was passed on to allies within state legislatures and subsequently rewritten into bill form. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 307

Categorization

• XREF: The manufactured legal template shows structural Islamophobia operating through coordinated think-tank politics — parallels the cross-source mapping to Rana’s apparatus framing. — connects to: Shari’a law is heterogeneous divine scripture, not a uniform legal code — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 305
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 307