Why the Panic Over Critical Race Theory Is Just the Fake Sharia Law Scare All Over Again
Would you be willing to be arrested for something if you didn’t know what it was? Would you vote against it? Would you stake your party’s chances in the 2022 midterms on it?
This week in Loudoun County, Virginia, a furious man was arrested for trespassing following a raucous school board meeting that erupted into protests against critical race theory and a policy on transgender students.
“These people are willing to get arrested, to protest something that isn’t being taught to their kids and that they couldn’t define if their lives depended on it,” Mehdi Hasan tells co-host Molly Jong-Fast and producer Jesse Cannon on the latest episode of The New Abnormal. “What the current moral panic over CRT reminds me of is the Republican moral panic over Sharia law. Remember in the wake of 9/11, it was ‘Sharia Law!’ and ‘Creeping Sharia,’ they called it.”