Alyssa A. Lappen

Articles by Alyssa A. Lappen

Pro-Sharia Textbooks Creeping Into Curricula Nationwide

In August 2011, a Marietta, Ga. 7th grade teacher gave a three-page homework lesson from InspirEd Educators Inc. of Roswell, Ga. to students to help them discuss pros and cons of school uniforms. “Women in the West do not have

Seeing Real Life Sharia In Action (Part III)

A continuation of the review of: Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws are Choking Freedom Worldwide Read Part I and Part II here. Victims in the West In addition to additional Muslim reformers, the book covers several other cases of

Seeing Real Life Sharia In Action (Part II)

A continuation of the review of: Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws are Choking Freedom Worldwide Read Part I here. Harsh Reality The hopes of Muslim reformers put them sharply at odds both with present-day reality and age-old Islamic conventions.

Seeing Real Life Sharia In Action (Part I)

Review of: Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws are Choking Freedom Worldwide “Apostasy is, in principle, subject to sharia hudud rules, which means that the punishment–death–is believed to be fixed by divine order and not subject to judicial discretion…,” write

Sharia Lobby Shifts into 5th Gear

Slow down, moving too fast, got to make the U.S. last… Sharia advocates desperately want to convince legislators and the public that Islamic law is plain vanilla — and totally nonthreatening to existing U.S. legal codes. Notwithstanding a nationwide Muslim