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Texas Lawmakers Target Muslim Practices as Political Threats
Confirmed
He has not explained where the line between Islam as religion and Islam as culture or politics would fall, or which Muslim practices would lose the protections ordinarily afforded to religious exercise. As law professor Asifa Quraishi-Landes has explained, Muslims distinguish sharia itself, God’s way, from “fiqh ,” the human interpretation of that way into specific rules.
Oklahoma voters approved one, and a federal court blocked it : The state couldn’t identify a single case in which sharia had actually been applied. He has also said lawmakers intend to try to define what qualifies as a religion, arguing that Islam is “ much more than a religion.
What's confirmed
- He has also said lawmakers intend to try to define what qualifies as a religion, arguing that Islam is “ much more than a religion .
- He has not explained where the line between Islam as religion and Islam as culture or politics would fall, or which Muslim practices would lose the protections ordinarily afforded to religious exercise.
- As law professor Asifa Quraishi-Landes has explained, Muslims distinguish sharia itself, God’s way, from “fiqh ,” the human interpretation of that way into specific rules.
- Oklahoma voters approved one, and a federal court blocked it : The state couldn’t identify a single case in which sharia had actually been applied.
What's still developing
- Further details were still being reported.