The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), which is considered to be the most prestigious group of Sunni Islamic scholars and jurists in the world, issued a statement this past weekend imploring Muslims in America to “immediately start legal action to prosecute those who offend Islam.” The group also… Read More
AFLC’s recent legal victory involving the display of a pro-Israel/anti-Jihad advertisement on city buses in New York has received significant media attention from outlets such as The New York Times, CNN, Reuters, and NBC News. According to media reports, the Metropolitan Authority of New York (MTA) is planning to run the… Read More
A Kansas district court is the first to recognize the possible application of the American Laws for American Courts (ALAC) law in a case where a party sought to enforce a sharia-law based contract. ALAC was adopted in Kansas earlier this year and it is based upon… Read More
On behalf of the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), we are proud to report to you AFLC’s significant accomplishments each month, which, of course, are made possible by your prayers and generous support. For August, AFLC achieved two major, precedent-setting victories for religious liberty and freedom of… Read More
Last week, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a press release blaming AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel David Yerushalmi for the Republican Party’s decision to adopt a platform plank that supports the American Laws for American Courts (ALAC) model legislation authored by Yerushalmi. Naturally, CAIR used… Read More
National security and terrorism correspondent Patrick Poole has released a fascinating two-part report on the case of Ghulam Nabi Fai, the executive director of the Kashmiri American Center (KAC), who was arrested by the FBI in July 2011 in Virginia for concealing the transfer of $3.5 million from Pakistan’s Inter-Services… Read More
According to a report published today in The Jewish Press, the Southern Poverty Law Center — one of the nation’s most outspoken left-wing smear groups — partnered with the Muslim Public Affairs Council and the Center for American Progress in a teleconference last night aimed at addressing… Read More
FoxNews.com has released an exclusive report detailing AFLC’s defense of Captain Paul Fields, a devout Christian and seventeen year veteran of the Tulsa Police Department who was punished for refusing to attend an Islamic proselytizing event held at a local mosque in 2011. You can read the… Read More
AFLC Advisory Board Member and bestselling author Andrew C. McCarthy provided an exciting preview of his upcoming book in National Review’s The Corner. McCarthy’s book, entitled Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy, explains that the recent “Arab Spring”, which took place in countries like Tunisia and Egypt,… Read More
Last week,  the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life released the results of a multi-year survey of beliefs and practices by the world’s Muslims. You can read the survey here, which was based on (impressively) 38,000 face-to-face interviews with Muslims in 39 different countries… Read More
