{"id":118356,"date":"2026-08-21T18:13:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=118356"},"modified":"2026-08-21T18:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:13:34","slug":"118356","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=118356","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas2AAttorney<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CJGRISHAM\/status\/2090541704386429144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CJGRISHAM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every legal system rests on an answer to one question: who has final authority? Our Constitution answers it clearly and succinctly: Sovereignty rests in the people, exercised through written law, amendable by us, binding on everyone equally.<\/p>\n<p>Classical Islamic jurisprudence answers that question differently. Sharia is not merely private devotion. It is a comprehensive legal order covering contract, family, inheritance, criminal punishment, and the terms on which one may leave the faith. In its traditional formulation, that law is divine, and therefore not subject to amendment by any legislature, including ours.<\/p>\n<p>Where those systems meet, the friction is real. Our First Amendment protects the right to blaspheme, to convert, to ridicule any doctrine. Traditional Islamic law treats apostasy and blasphemy as offenses. Our Fourteenth Amendment demands equal protection. Traditional rules of inheritance and testimony assign different weight to men and women. These are not caricatures. They are positions found in the standard schools of jurisprudence.<\/p>\n<p>American law has always accommodated religious practice. What it cannot accommodate is a parallel legal authority that claims precedence over it. A faith may ask for space within the constitutional order. It cannot be granted a place above it.<\/p>\n<p>The question before us is not whether Muslims may worship freely. They may, and must. The question is whether we will be honest that some doctrines make claims our founding documents cannot honor, and that we owe every American, including Muslim Americans, the clarity of saying so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas2AAttorney CJGRISHAM Every legal system rests on an answer to one question: who has final authority? Our Constitution answers it clearly and succinctly: Sovereignty rests in the people, exercised through written law, amendable by us, binding on everyone equally. Classical Islamic jurisprudence answers that question differently. Sharia is not merely private devotion. It is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=118356\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-o-the-day","category-moslems-jihadis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118362,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118356\/revisions\/118362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}