Anti-Sharia advocates analogize Muslim communities to sovereign reservations to argue for preemptive exclusion

Evidence

My wife and I went to Minnesota last Friday, and we had a trial on an Indian reservation. Their law prevails there. They have a right to their somewhat constitution-free zones because they formed a treaty with the United States in the 17- and 1800s. That’s what this is. If this Court does not do something to stop this, constitution-free zones under sharia law will be governing. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 379

Categorization

• XREF: The sovereign-reservation analogy invites comparison with the way native-sovereignty discourse gets appropriated to describe Muslims as a separate law-governed polity. — connects to: Anti-Muslim activists frame restrictions on Muslims as defending liberty. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 29
• QUESTION: Worth tracing how the attorney uses treaty-based tribal sovereignty as precedent for treating Muslim religious practice as a competing legal order.

Broader Connections

• Anti-Muslim activists frame restrictions on Muslims as defending liberty. #expands (0.80) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 29