Proponents of anti-Shari‘a legislation defined Shari‘a law as a “‘totalitarian ideology’ and ‘legal-political-military doctrine,’ committed to annihilating Western civilization as we known it today." Relying on principal Islamophobic baselines that frame Islam as a competing political ideology (sometimes referred to as "Islamo-fascism") as much as religious scripture, Shari‘a law abolitionists authored a model statute that “would prohibit state judges from considering foreign laws or rulings that violate constitutional rights in the United States." The model statute, titled "American Law for American Courts," was passed on to allies within state legislatures and subsequently rewritten into bill form.

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 307