Court expert testimony falsely presents sharia as mandating jihad violence

Evidence

The second principal finding, I think, is that sharia obligates its adherents to engage in jihad. That is important, obviously because to the extent that it involves violence, as we saw on 9/11, it can involve mass murder and great destruction. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 396

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing material on how courts confer epistemic authority on false Islamophobic claims (ch 60) and fabricated facts about religious obligations (DS 8 category). — connects to: Self-styled anti-sharia experts lacked even basic knowledge of Islamic law — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 409; Courts confer epistemic authority on false Islamophobic claims — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 390; Anti-sharia testimony framed lawful Muslim practice as a seditious, lawless threat (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• A Qur’anic verse was distorted into an incitement to fight non-Muslims #exemplifies (0.90) — Asena Karipek, Portrayals of Jihad, 46
• Canonical Islamic texts were cited only to discredit Islam #corroborates (0.85) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1388
• Court legitimation converts false anti-Muslim claims into citable authority #expands (0.82)
• Islamophobia need not rest on false claims, so debunking accuracy misses the point #complicates (0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 905