GOP Platform Takes Hard Stance against Imaginary Sharia Threat

At Talking Points Memo, Ryan J. Reilly reports, “The Republican National Convention adopted an amendment to their platform supporting a ban on foreign law,” but the specific target is “Sharia Law.” Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says, “in cases involving either spousal abuse or assault or other crimes against persons, sometimes defenses are raised that are based in Sharia law.”

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