Rule of law: Sharia panic and the US Constitution in the House of Representatives

Lemons, Katherine; Chambers-Letson, Joshua

doi:10.1080/09502386.2014.886486

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“…Because there have been no calls for Sharia and the Constitution already contains protections against the erosion of fundamental rights, such laws are completely redundant (Pedrioli, ; Schmitz, ). However, the debates over these bills are an opportunity to insert bigotry and fear into mainstream discourse (Lemons & Chambers‐Letson, ). “A shift in cultural consciousness and discourse is as much a goal of the Islamophobia movement as is its legislative gains,” notes Yazdiha (, p. 273).…”

Section: Flexible Distributed and Symbolicmentioning

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Hate Spin: The Twin Political Strategies of Religious Incitement and Offense-Taking

George

2016

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Religious intolerance manifests itself periodically in ways that test democracies' commitment to freedom of expression. Responding to this challenge requires a conceptual clarity that is often lacking. This article proposes a corrective lens in the form of a new concept, hate spin. Hate spin absorbs the familiar concept of hate speech, or incitement, and combines it with the less understood strategy of offense‐taking or manufactured indignation. The two sides of hate spin—incitement and offense‐taking—are used by political entrepreneurs to mobilize supporters and coerce targeted groups. Incitement may warrant legal intervention, but censorship is a counterproductive response to offense. The article explicates the concept of hate spin, identifies its key characteristics, and suggests directions for further research.

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Section: Flexible Distributed and Symbolicmentioning

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Hate Spin: The Twin Political Strategies of Religious Incitement and Offense-Taking

George

2016

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“…8 Contemporary politics the world over is filled with more examples. Elaborate and impactful conspiracy theories have been manufactured in the United States by the Islamophobia industry about the incursion of sharia law 9 ; in India by the Hindu Right about Muslim men mounting "love jihad" on Hindu girls 10 ; in Indonesian by Muslim hardliners about a resurgent communist threat 11 ; and in Europe by anti-immigrant groups against sexual predators or "rapefugees." 12 Our attention tends to be drawn to speech that is extreme-either using language that violates social norms, such as openly racist epithets, or containing explicit calls to action, such as incitement to violence.…”

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The Scourge of Disinformation-Assisted Hate Propaganda

George¹

2020

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“…In this decade, various US legislatures have considered bans on "sharīʿa", 15 with some coming into effect at the state level. 16 It is questionable what, if anything, such bans change about existing laws or how any legislature could prohibit its successors from making any law in the future. Lee Ann Bambach argues these legislative measures are unconstitutional and serve no practical legal purpose.…”

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Propaedeutics in Practice: Islamic Legal Studies and the Public Sphere

Gutmann

2020

AJIS

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In this paper, I outline a propaedeutics of Islamic legal studies. I am using the term “propaedeutic” to refer to scholarship and pedagogy that introduces audiences to new material in a way that structures their curiosities and asks them to rethink commonplace familiar situations and assumptions. Those who teach about Islamic law in North American Islamic studies are working in an environment shaped by distinctive anxieties and preconceptions. Engaged scholarship informed by thinkers such as Wael Hallaq and Talal Asad seeks to disentangle conceptions of law from modern expectations of law enforcement, codification, and the supervisory neutrality of the state to consider other deliberations and practices of justice. Such propaedeutic scholarship should suggest how religious legal authority deals with more than just “spiritual” and “personal” matters. Imprecise introduction to the idea that Islamic legal opinion is non-binding can unintentionally imply that such opinion makes only moral suggestion that one chooses to follow or not. Scholarscritical of Max Weber’s judgment that Islamic jurisprudence amounts to little more than arbitrary invocations of authority should be careful not to present Islamic jurists as merely creatively “free” to be unsystematic and their decisions inconsequential if following them is not coerced. Drawing on the work of Hussein Agrama, I explore the idea of fatwa discernment as guiding counsel directed not at adversarial procedure but at ethical self-formation. Finally, I consider Saba Mahmood’s account of religious difference to suggest how Islamic legal traditions might complicate liberal ideas of jurisdiction.

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Rule of law: Sharia panic and the US Constitution in the House of Representatives

Cited by 4 publications

References 24 publications

Hate Spin: The Twin Political Strategies of Religious Incitement and Offense-Taking

Hate Spin: The Twin Political Strategies of Religious Incitement and Offense-Taking

The Scourge of Disinformation-Assisted Hate Propaganda

Propaedeutics in Practice: Islamic Legal Studies and the Public Sphere

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