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Elites pooh-pooh the danger of the more draconian forms of Shariah law ever taking root in the United States and point to the small number of adherents of this code as evidence of its harmlessness to Americans. They can only make these assurances, though, by completely ignoring evidence that this body of legal beliefs is already taking hold in some surprising places, namely American courts and schools.. For example, The Center for Security Policy reported in an in-depth study— Shariah Law and American State Courts: An Assessment of State Appellate Court Cases— on “50 appellate court cases from 23 states...

Hamas and Fatah are trading accusations over the gruesome murder of a 14-year-old boy whose decapitated body was found buried in the bedroom of a former Palestinian policeman in the Gaza Strip. The boy, Mahmoud al-Shaer, of Rafah, disappeared last week shortly after his father sent him to deposit several hundred dollars in a local bank. Over the weekend, Hamas's security forces arrested Rami Khalifeh, a prominent militiaman from Rafah who has long been involved in drug trafficking and smuggling weapons across the border with Egypt. Khalifeh's younger brother was also arrested as an accomplice. Hamas described Khalifeh as a...