Sharia law bills: much ado about nothing

Political expediency being what it is, there’s no shortage of politicians in South Carolina and elsewhere looking to make hay out of the so-called threat to the Constitution from “sharia law.”

The idea that Muslims, fundamentalist or otherwise, want to install an Islamic theocracy in the US would be laughable if it didn’t find such a sizeable audience among the Americans either ignorant on the topic of Islam or eager to believe the worst about the faith often identified with the Middle East.

Bills introduced in both the SC House and Senate earlier this year would prevent a “court or other enforcement authority from enforcing foreign law in this state from a forum outside the US or its territories under certain circumstances.”

Neither bill mention the word “sharia law” but it’s generally understood that’s what the legislation is directed at.