Anti-sharia legislation weaponizes real social problems into paranoid fantasy

Evidence

Genuine issues of domestic violence (which exists in every community) have been seized by opportunistic Islamophobes as another weapon for bashing Islam. … Hysterical attempts to create anti-sharia legislation implicitly target Muslim women, by creating paranoid fantasies of Muslim takeovers of the Constitution and the imposition of veils and burqas on American women. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 48

Categorization

• XREF: The paranoid-fantasy mechanism of scapegoating connects to the reader’s project of dissecting the frightened subject’s psychology. — connects to: Anti-sharia bills sought to criminalize mosque attendance by defining Islam as ideology; Anti-sharia testimony framed lawful Muslim practice as a seditious, lawless threat; Anti-Sharia legislation spread across 43 states via one network’s fabricated data (+4 more)