At least 120 anti-Sharia bills have been introduced across 42 US states since 2010.

Evidence

As evidence of this, I note that the Southern Poverty Law Center has determined that at least 120 anti-Sharia legislative bills have been introduced in forty-two states since 2010. In the year 2017 alone, there were at least thirteen different states which introduced anti-Sharia legislation; with the states of Texas and Arkansas actually passing some form of such legislation into law. In June 2017, Texas governor Greg Abbott signed into law House Bill 45, which prevented the use of “foreign laws” (the neutral-sounding vanilla term which actually refers to Sharia law) in domestic civil cases within the Lone Star State. This was signed into law just four months after Arkansas adopted similar legislation. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 627

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete data tying US domestic Islamophobia to the global machine-wound thesis — useful as capstone evidence alongside Beydoun and Kumar. — connects to: Forty-seven anti-Shari’a bills appeared in twenty-one states by June 2011 — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 308; Funded think tanks drafted template anti-Sharia laws making belief a felony — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 622; An anti-Sharia amendment passed despite admitted absence of any Sharia threat in Oklahoma. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 631 (+2 more)
• SEED: Angle: the ‘foreign laws’ euphemism as a template for how secular language launders religious targeting.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 627

Related

• Forty-seven anti-Shari’a bills appeared in twenty-one states by June 2011 (similarity 0.87)
• A single boilerplate template authored by David Yerushalmi underpins most US anti-Sharia bills. (similarity 0.85)
• An anti-Sharia amendment passed despite admitted absence of any Sharia threat in Oklahoma. (similarity 0.84)
• Funded think tanks drafted template anti-Sharia laws making belief a felony (similarity 0.84)
• Anti-sharia bills sought to criminalize mosque attendance by defining Islam as ideology (similarity 0.83)
• Anti-Sharia legislation spread across 43 states via one network’s fabricated data (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-Sharia legislation correlates with a 67 percent rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes. (similarity 0.82)
• A single template anti-Sharia bill was introduced 216 times in 43 states (similarity 0.81)
• One lawyer’s fabricated report seeded two hundred anti-Sharia bills across states. (similarity 0.80)
• A conspiracy-peddling lawyer drove 201 anti-Sharia bills in 43 states (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Shari’a bills converted private Islamophobia into state structural policy (similarity 0.80)
• Twenty-three states adopted an anti-sharia model bill authored by a fringe conspiracy theorist. (similarity 0.79)
• A small network of model bills drove state anti-sharia and federal Muslim bans (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Shari’a state laws use neutral wording to target Muslims specifically. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• An anti-Sharia amendment passed despite admitted absence of any Sharia threat in Oklahoma. #corroborates (0.75) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 631
• A single boilerplate template authored by David Yerushalmi underpins most US anti-Sharia bills. #expands (0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 629