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Sharia Panic
A standing dossier on the phrase "sharia law" as it is used in American and Texas political argument — where the phrase entered campaign speech, what legislation has actually been filed, and what the word means to the Muslims it is aimed at.
What this dossier is
This page examines a pattern of public discourse. It documents what was said, by whom, on what date, and in what document. It does not assign motives to named people as fact, and it does not treat a political position as evidence of bad faith. Where someone's stated reasoning is on the record, the record is what we quote.
It is worth separating two different things that the same phrase is doing work for. One is a term of art in Islamic tradition, which the glossary handles directly. The other is a slogan in electoral politics, which has its own history and its own documents. Confusing the two is the reason the argument rarely goes anywhere.
Current status
The dossier's own records are in editing and are not published yet. Rather than post a partial timeline that a reader might cite, we are holding it until the primary documents — bill texts, floor statements, dated transcripts — are gathered and checked.
The Testset portal
Omar Afra also publishes Testset, which holds related dossier material. We intend to link the specific Testset dossier here, attributed to Testset and clearly marked as a separate publication, with no content copied across.
We could not verify a live Testset dossier URL at the time of writing, so no link is shown. Publishing a guessed address would be worse than publishing none, and Texas Muslim is owned by the same person as Testset — that relationship is disclosed rather than presented as independent corroboration.
Related reading here
The glossary defines the terms this argument turns on, and Claims & Facts is where individual sourced records will appear. Our sourcing rules are in editorial standards.