Straight answers

No. Muslims are citizens and residents with the same civil rights as anyone else — including the right not to be put under a lesser family law. We oppose a legal-political system where it contradicts equal protection. We do not oppose people for believing in God, fasting in Ramadan, or building a mosque. If someone uses this site to target a person for being Muslim, they are not with us.

Because among living religious legal systems it is the one with the largest global population, the widest state enforcement of corporal and capital rules, and the most active demand — in some countries — that those rules bind family life. That is a fact about institutions, not a racial ranking of souls. We will apply the same test to a Christian reconstructionist court or a Jewish tribunal that produced an unequal result.

They use the same arbitration door. If two merchants pick a rabbinical panel for a contract dispute and either can walk into civil court when rights are at stake, that is liberty. If a wife is told she will lose her children and her family unless she accepts a religious decree that U.S. law would reject, that is coercion. The religion on the letterhead does not decide the case. The rights do.

Criticism of a legal doctrine is not hatred of a people. Using “Islamophobia” to make apostasy, blasphemy, or unequal inheritance undiscussable is itself a political move. We will not launder bigotry. We will not accept a gag rule.

This project is about the law that applies after someone is here. Immigration policy is a separate debate. Treating every Muslim newcomer as an invader is false on the numbers and fatal to a rights campaign.

It protects belief and voluntary association. It does not protect a private body that exercises the equivalent of state power over a child, or an “agreement” signed under threat of exile. Courts already refuse to enforce religious outcomes that violate public policy. We want that line brighter in family cases.

There is no single answer. American Muslims are diverse; many treat Sharia as ethics, not a penal code. Polling overseas shows high support in some countries for official Sharia for Muslims. Do not import those percentages onto Detroit or Houston without evidence. Do not pretend there is no constituency anywhere for religious family law.

Yes. In fact the project is weaker without you. The standard is the founding statement, not a religious test.

Not unless they say so. That page is a reading list and a help list. We recommend One Law for All, the Council of Ex-Muslims, AHA Foundation, and the CLARITy Coalition because they share the standard — one civil law, not a campaign against a people. Survivor groups such as Tahirih and Unchained At Last are listed as help, not as a political coalition. We summarize their work and link out. We do not republish their articles.