The first place you’d expect Sharia law to gain a foothold would be … Tennessee. With that in mind, the Republican candidates in the primary for the TN-06 House seat are scrambling to see who can come out strongest against construction of a mosque in Murfreesboro.
Actually, whether it’s a “mosque” is at issue, too. “This isn’t a mosque,” the campaign manager for one of the candidates tells TPM. “They’re building an Islamic center to teach Sharia law. That is what we stand in opposition to. And this is one of the largest Islamic centers in the country, at 53,000 square feet on 15 acres.”
