24 February 2011

Tennessee Jumps on the Anti-Sharia Bandwagon

Refraining from eating pork? Giving alms to the poor? These could become criminal activities in Tennessee, where a proposed law would make adherence to Sharia -- or Islamic law -- illegal and punishable with jail time.

While a number of other states have filed legislation seeking to keep Sharia out of the courts, Tennessee is going one giant step further by attempting to outlaw it entirely. [TPMMuckraker] Read more [via National Secular Society]