Wealthy right-wing networks fabricated the sharia law panic
Evidence
The sharia law moral panic was orchestrated by a group of wealthy right-wing actors who used their network and the media to frame Islam as a religion that stood for nothing more than unremitting violence against the West and non-Muslims. The only way to combat what they called “sharia creep” was through legislation that made it impossible for anything based on Islamic religious law to be enforced through the courts. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) promoted a draft law to be adopted by various states that forbade courts from applying sharia. What this meant is that wills, private contracts, and marriage contracts that involved religious law were nonjusticiable. These quotidian concerns of ordinary people are the examples provided by the proponents of these anti-sharia measures as examples of stealth jihad and the overthrow of the constitutional order. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 277
Categorization
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
- XREF: connects to: Anti-Sharia legislation spread across 43 states via one network’s fabricated data; A fabricated mosque statistic spread from far right into mainstream media; Billionaire-backed radical-right networks manipulate politics through clandestine think tanks. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1768 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Anti-sharia campaigns exploit fabricated fears to gain political support
#corroborates(0.93) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 519 - Pre-existing narratives, not actual events, primed the moral panic over Sharia
#expands(0.85) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 346 - Billionaire-backed radical-right networks manipulate politics through clandestine think tanks.
#corroborates(0.82) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1768 - Funded think tanks drafted template anti-Sharia laws making belief a felony
#corroborates(0.80) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 622