Funded think tanks drafted template anti-Sharia laws making belief a felony

Evidence

Out of everyone in the above litany, David Yerushalmi (along with Islamophobic zealot Pamela Geller) has been the most outspoken advocate for anti-Sharia legislation in the United States. Thanks to his share of the forty-two million dollar Islamophobia pie, Yerushalmi was able to use his right-wing think tank—euphemistically named the Society of Americans for National Existence (with the hilarious acronym “SANE”)—to draft boilerplate template language for anti-Sharia legislation as early as 2007, making adherence to “Sharia” a felony punishable by up to twenty years in prison. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 622

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete mechanism of the Islamophobia industry’s policy pipeline, paralleling Fear Inc. data from the cluster. — connects to: Anti-Shari’a bills converted private Islamophobia into state structural policy — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 306; White evangelicals and FOX News viewers widely believe Muslims seek to impose Sharia — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 609; Islamophobia is transmitted through state-polity dialogue via law and rhetoric — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 83 (+9 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 622

Related

• A single boilerplate template authored by David Yerushalmi underpins most US anti-Sharia bills. (similarity 0.90)
• Anti-sharia bills sought to criminalize mosque attendance by defining Islam as ideology (similarity 0.88)
• At least 120 anti-Sharia bills have been introduced across 42 US states since 2010. (similarity 0.84)
• A single template anti-Sharia bill was introduced 216 times in 43 states (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-Shari’a bills converted private Islamophobia into state structural policy (similarity 0.82)
• A conspiracy-peddling lawyer drove 201 anti-Sharia bills in 43 states (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Sharia legislation spread across 43 states via one network’s fabricated data (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Shari’a proponents misdefined the term as a totalitarian doctrine (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Sharia legislation correlates with a 67 percent rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes. (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-sharia laws stripped ordinary Muslim wills and contracts of enforceability (similarity 0.79)
• A small network of model bills drove state anti-sharia and federal Muslim bans (similarity 0.79)
• One lawyer’s fabricated report seeded two hundred anti-Sharia bills across states. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A single boilerplate template authored by David Yerushalmi underpins most US anti-Sharia bills. #expands (0.85) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 629
• Structural Islamophobia operates through laws and policies that presume Muslims threaten national security #exemplifies (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 123
• Islamophobia is transmitted through state-polity dialogue via law and rhetoric #expands (0.65) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 83
• At least 120 anti-Sharia bills have been introduced across 42 US states since 2010. #corroborates (0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 627