In an interview with Vox.com on Aug. 14, U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama said: “There are communities under Sharia law right now in our country. Up in Illinois. . . . There’s Sharia law, as I understand it, in Illinois, Indiana – up there. I don’t know.”
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Moore said, “There are communities under Sharia law right now in our country. Up in Illinois. . . . There’s Sharia law, as I understand it, in Illinois, Indiana – up there. I don’t know.”
After checking with multiple experts, we found no evidence of such a community. What we did find was a satirical Daily Beast article headlined, “Next, We Muslims Bring Sharia to Indiana.”
We rate Moore’s statement Pants on Fire.
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