University of Windsor study says US Muslims don't want Shariat

February 01, 2012 15:28

'North American Muslims are more than satisfied with the secular legal system and do not want a set of parallel courts for Islamic law, according to a new study of US and Canadian Muslims by a Washington-based think tank,' reports the Huffington Post..

'The study, by University of Windsor law professor Judy Macfarlane for the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, would seem to refute critics' claims that American Muslims want to impose Shariah, or Islamic law. In fact, the study indicates that Muslims are just as unwilling to accept Islamic law as non-Muslims,' it says.

Read the report here.

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