What everyone needs to know about Shariah

A March 2019 article from the Africa Times reports on Fox News host Jeanine Pirro's controversial allegation that congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) hijab is a symbol of loyalty to Shariah law. Equally tendentiously, Pirro contends that such an Islamic legal framework is "antithetical" to the U.S. Constitution. On March 26, Professor Natana Delong-Bas will deliver a luncheon colloquium at the Boisi Center addressing common stereotypes of Shariah within an American context, and how unnuanced understandings of shariah and Islam can have dangerous ethical and political effects.