Oklahoma Muslims wary after Shari‘a referendum

Born and raised in Oklahoma, Sarah Albahadily will wear her headscarf
to a Brad Paisley concert and her cowboy boots to a mosque. There are
two things she says she never misses: Friday prayers or a University of
Oklahoma football game.

But after seven in ten Oklahoma voters on
November 2 approved State Question 755, a constitutional amendment that
prohibits courts from using Islamic law known as Shari'a, Albahadily
suddenly feels a little less at home in the Sooner State.

"It's
disheartening. Even though it was expected, you still feel the blow,"
said Albahadily, 27, as she drove to the Mercy School, a K-12 Islamic
school in Oklahoma City where she teaches science.