Anti-Sharia legislation spread across 43 states via one network’s fabricated data
Evidence
Upon the election of Donald J. Trump as President, twenty-three states introduced anti-sharia legislation. As The Tennessean once again notes, the bills are alike because they are based on a model bill. It should surprise no one that “[t]he legislation was developed by the Center for Security Policy, which was founded by Frank Gaffney, a Reagan-era acting assistant secretary of defense, who pushes conspiracy theories alleging radical Muslims have infiltrated the government.” … The sharia bans were followed by the Trump-era Muslim bans, barring citizens of several predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. Having fabricated the threat of invasion from a violent horde, all that remained was to prevent them from entering the county. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 290 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: One lawyer’s fabricated report seeded two hundred anti-Sharia bills across states.; A fabricated statistic about mosques seeded two hundred anti-Sharia state bills; A small network of model bills drove state anti-sharia and federal Muslim bans — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 290 (+11 more)
Broader Connections
- A fabricated statistic about mosques seeded two hundred anti-Sharia state bills
#corroborates(0.92) - A small network of model bills drove state anti-sharia and federal Muslim bans
#corroborates(0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 290 - A single template anti-Sharia bill was introduced 216 times in 43 states
#corroborates(0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 804 - A conspiracy-peddling lawyer drove 201 anti-Sharia bills in 43 states
#corroborates(0.85) - A fabricated mosque statistic spread from far right into mainstream media
#expands(0.85) - Wealthy right-wing networks fabricated the sharia law panic
#corroborates(0.80) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 277 - Funded think tanks drafted template anti-Sharia laws making belief a felony
#expands(0.80) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 622 - At least 120 anti-Sharia bills have been introduced across 42 US states since 2010.
#qualifies(0.75) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 627 - Forty-seven anti-Shari’a bills appeared in twenty-one states by June 2011
#qualifies(0.72) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 308 - Anti-Shari’a bills converted private Islamophobia into state structural policy
#expands(0.72) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 306 - Anti-sharia legislation weaponizes real social problems into paranoid fantasy
#qualifies(0.70) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 48 - The framing of mosques as terror nest legitimated surveillance of religious practice
#complicates(0.70) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 818