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Study: State Legislation Addressing ‘Sharia Threat’ Misrepresents Views Of Muslim Americans | A report [PDF] on North American Muslims finds that the supposed threat of Sharia law — Islamic law derived from the Koran — are largely overblown and misrepresent the role of Islam in the lives of Muslims. None of the 212 respondents interviewed for the report suggested that courts in the U.S. or Canada should apply Islamic law. The report, authored by Dr. Julie Macfarlane, a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, concluded that, “Many Muslims see the civil courts as ‘man’s law,’ in contrast with shari’a which is ‘God’s law,’ but are equally clear that they are required to obey the law of the land.”