Anti-sharia campaigns exploit fabricated fears to gain political support

Evidence

This anti-sharia fear is one that is being used to garner fear of Muslims in America. The belief is that Muslims are trying to institute Islamic law in America, which is not the case. Anti-Muslim activists like Gabriel Brigitte from ACT for America promotes the idea that Muslims are trying to Islamicize America through sharia law. Politicians, like the mayor of Irving, have introduced anti-sharia bills to legislator partially for political support from their constituents who fear Muslims in America. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 519

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior map frameworks on manufactured moral panics over out-groups; also echoes the Beydoun lineage on legal Islamophobia. — connects to: Feigned persecution, not actual threat, drives religious voter turnout; Anti-sharia testimony framed lawful Muslim practice as a seditious, lawless threat; Anti-sharia and anti-CRT panics deploy identical racecraft tactics against different targets — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 445 (+4 more)
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does electoral incentive structure around sharia panic interact with ordinary legislative behavior?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 519