Outrageous: NY Times Op-Ed Defends Sharia Law … in America

by Bruce Bawer
Pajamas Media
September 6, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1637/outrageous-ny-times-op-ed-defends-sharia-law-in

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In recent years the New York Times has published more than its share of slippery apologias for Islam, but the op-ed it ran on September 2 in defense of sharia law was not only slippery but curiously feeble as well. Eliyahu Stern, an assistant professor of religious studies and history at Yale, harshly criticized the attempts currently underway in over a dozen U.S. states to pass legislation prohibiting the introduction in those jurisdictions of sharia courts. "Some of these efforts," Stern lamented, "would curtail Muslims from settling disputes over dietary laws and marriage through religious arbitration…."

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