BOSTOM: Sanitizing Sharia Will Destroy Freedom

Islamic apologists have whitewashed sharia for decades. Now young Americans support imposing it even on citizens who want no part of it.

The peerless scholar Dr. Andrew Bostom lays out the betrayal: educators sanitize coercive religious laws, conceal their assault on free speech and equal rights, and leave students unequipped to recognize what they are embracing. His warning is blunt: proselytizing for Islam and sanitizing religious laws that punish dissent and deny equal rights prepares a generation to surrender the Bill of Rights in the name of tolerance.

This is indoctrination with devastating consequences—preparing a generation to vote away its birthright.

Sanitizing Sharia Will Destroy Freedom

By: Dr. Andrew Bostom, RAIR Foundation, October 31, 2026

Decades of sanitized, apologetic ‘education’ about Islam have indoctrinated