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What Is Sharia
“WHAT IS SHARIA” CHAPTERS Introduction Key Findings The Threat is Sharia Key Tenets Of Sharia The Sources of Sharia The Application of Sharia Sharia and Jihad Sharia as a Security Issue Sharia-Compliant Finance The Anti-Constitutional Character Of Sharia Weste
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Research ChapterSharia-Compliant Finance
What it is (and how it’s certified) Sharia-compliant finance (SCF) refers to investments and financial deals structured to be considered “halal” (permissible) under sharia. Whether something is “compliant” is decided by one or more Islamic scholars who sit on a sharia advisory board. They review products and transactions, then issue approvals (or rejections) based on … Read more
Research ChapterA Path Forward: Safeguarding the Constitution from Sharia
The United States has stumbled—across parties and presidencies—in recognizing and countering the political-legal program of sharia. Yesterday, that was reckless. Today, it’s unacceptable. What follows is a clear, web-friendly roadmap: what’s at stake, what we’ve been getting wrong, and what to do next. What’s at stake Sharia, advanced as a supreme political-legal code, clashes with … Read more
Research ChapterU.S. Leadership Failures In The Face Of Sharia
Our sharia-adherent adversaries understand something basic: they can’t defeat the United States by matching our economy or our military. So they aim at our weak spots—how we think, how we talk, and how we decide. If they can shape our perception of the threat, they can shape our response to it. That is the essence … Read more
Research ChapterThe U.S. And Western Vulnerabilities To A Threat Masquerading As A Religion
Since 9/11, America has struggled not just because of bad or incomplete information about sharia, but because many leaders and institutions refuse to let facts shape strategy. We’ve developed a mental block that keeps us from examining Islamic doctrine honestly, especially where it advances jihad and the spread of sharia. Post-Modernism at Work In today’s … Read more
Research ChapterKey Findings
Sun Tzu stressed the imperative of warriors understanding both themselves and their enemy: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.” The U.S. military has carefully followed Sun Tzu’s guidance in the training and education of its warriors. Yet, today, America is engaged in existential … Read more
Research ChapterThe Anti-Constitutional Character Of Sharia
As a country, we’ve drifted from our founding ideas. That makes it harder to recognize — and push back against — doctrines that clash with them. When that happens, we risk our peace, prosperity, and even the basic framework of our nation. With that in mind, it’s worth looking again at America’s first principles and … Read more
Research ChapterSharia as a Security Issue
Successfully protecting the United States against jihadist threats requires understanding several built-in attributes of Sharia that shape the character and persistence of the threat. Treaties and Truces Shariah jurists hold that the Muslim community’s objective is to spread submission to shariah through jihad. Strength matters: when Muslims are strong, offensive jihad is commanded, drawing on … Read more
Research ChapterSharia and Jihad
Shariah—drawn from Islam’s foundational texts—defines doctrines including the obligation of jihad against non-believers. The key question: does “jihad” mean a private moral struggle, or warfare to establish a global Islamic state (caliphate) governed by shariah? The Quran and Jihad Shariah rulings sit within fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). Fiqh turns first to the Quran and then to … Read more
Research ChapterThe Application of Sharia
Overview Branches of law (fiqh).Sharia is applied through the branches of fiqh (“understanding”), covering: worship; family relations; inheritance; commerce; property; civil/tort; criminal; administration; taxation; constitutional questions; international relations; war and ethics; and more. Schools of jurisprudence.Four Sunni schools (Hanafi, Hanbali, Maliki, Shafi‘i) and two major Shi‘ite schools (Ja‘fari/Twelver and Ismaili/Fatimid) codified Islamic law by the … Read more
Research ChapterThe Sources of Sharia
Sharia draws its authority from four sources: the Quran, the Sunna, ijma (scholarly consensus), and qiyas (reasoning by analogy). The Quran—held to be the uncreated, eternal word of Allah—is primary. The Sunna (especially hadith) records what Muhammad said and did. When explicit rulings aren’t found there, jurists turn to ijma and qiyas to settle questions … Read more
Research ChapterIntroduction
The Contemporary Threat Sharia is a totalizing socio-political-legal system (“the path”) that seeks to govern public life—law, politics, economics, society, and war—not just private devotion. Within Islam there is a core fault line: Reform-minded Muslims and authentic moderates (e.g., figures like Indonesia’s Abdurrahman Wahid) treat Sharia as personal guidance compatible with pluralism and with a … Read more
Research ChapterKey Tenets Of Sharia
The following summarize key tenets that are especially problematic for Western non-Muslims, in alphabetical order. The citations drawn from the Quran, schools of Islam and other recognized sources are offered as illustrative examples. Abrogation (al-mansukh wa al-nasikh) Later Quranic verses supersede earlier ones. Practically, many Meccan verses understood as more moderate are treated as abrogated … Read more
Research ChapterThe Threat is Sharia
The enemy adheres to an all-encompassing Islamic political-military-legal doctrine known as sharia. It obliges its followers to wage jihad toward the worldwide triumph of Islam through a global Islamic state ruled under a restored caliphate. Millions of Muslims—many in America—do not live by strict sharia tenets or engage in jihad. The uneven imposition of strict … Read more