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Federal courts have repeatedly struck down or blocked state measures that single out “Sharia” or broadly ban foreign or religious law as unconstitutional, finding such provisions unnecessary and discr...
No credible evidence shows Muslim mayors in the are imposing as the law of their cities; U.S. municipal power, state constitutions, and federal courts limit any attempt to replace or supersede secular...
Since 2010 several U.S. states enacted laws or ballot measures that explicitly or functionally targeted “Sharia” or foreign law, with Oklahoma’s 2010 constitutional amendment the most prominent and la...
U.S. courts have on multiple occasions upheld private agreements, arbitrations, wills and choice-of-law clauses that incorporated or called for application of Islamic law (often via foreign law or pri...
US Muslim organizations promote adherence to Sharia through a mix of , not through imposing parallel legal systems. Analyses of multiple organizational profiles and studies show a spectrum from progre...
U.S. courts have allowed elements of Sharia to appear in family, custody and arbitration disputes mainly through private agreements and foreign-judgment comity—so long as those outcomes do not conflic...
Most reporting and legal scholarship shows American Muslims treat Sharia primarily as private guidance for personal and family matters — especially marriage, divorce and inheritance — and they do so w...
No U.S. state law explicitly requires courts to apply Sharia law as a binding legal system; instead, American courts sometimes enforce private agreements or recognize foreign legal acts (including tho...
Several U.S. states have adopted provisions that mention or bar “foreign” or “religious” laws — often prompted by concerns about Sharia — but courts and civil-rights groups have repeatedly challenged ...