OVERVIEW:
The Thomas Moore Law Center is a pro bono legal firm acting on behalf of the Christian far right. It also seeks to persecute Muslim Americans and undermine Muslim American civil liberties through the conspiracy theory that Muslims are secretly trying to take over the U.S. government:
Radical Muslims and Islamic organizations in America take advantage of our legal system and are waging a “Stealth Jihad” within our borders. Their aim is to transform America into an Islamic nation. They have already infiltrated the highest levels of our government, the media, our military, both major political parties, public schools, universities, financial institutions and the cultural elite. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, political leaders still claim “Islam is a religion of peace.” Our national leaders refuse to identify Radical Islam as the enemy. Political correctness has paralyzed our government’s ability to deal with these threats. That is why the Thomas More Law Center has been at the forefront of legal battle against this internal threat.[1]
HISTORY:
[Eklund v Byron Union School District] In July 2002, the Thomas More Law Center filed a lawsuit against Contra Costa County’s Byron Union School District on behalf of the parents of four students. The suit argued that the curriculum required that “students pretend to be Muslims, wear robes, simulate jihads via a dice game, learn the Five Pillars of Faith and memorize verses from the Koran in classroom exercises as part of a World History and Geography class” and thus violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the curriculum did not amount to an unconstitutional school sponsorship of a specific religion. The U.S. Supreme Court declined review of the case. [Kevin Murray v. U.S. Treasury Sec. Timothy Geithner, et al.] The Law Center filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, challenging a portion of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 that appropriated $40 billion in taxpayer money to fund the federal government’s majority ownership interest in AIG. The lawsuit claimed that the federal government, through its ownership of AIG, engages in Sharia-based Islamic religious activities. The Center claimed the use of taxpayer dollars to fund Shariah-based Islamic religious activities violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. While federal Judge Lawrence P. Zatkoff was requested by the Department of Justice to dismiss the lawsuit in 2009, he reached a summary judgment in January, 2011, noting that the religious involvement did not achieve the “excessive entanglement” required under a precedential ruling. [Olmsted Falls, Ohio] In October 2013, the Law Center threatened the Olmsted Falls City School District into removing what the center described as an “Islamic proselytizing video” from the 7th grade world history curriculum. The School District felt it could not spare the funds to defend itself in court. The film in question comes from the FX television network’s 30 Days series featuring Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame. The specific episode, “Muslims and America”, followed a Christian man who is transported to Dearborn, Michigan where he lives with a Muslim family, attends prayer services and religious instruction in a mosque and otherwise lives as a Muslim.Board of Directors: Richard Thompson, Thomas S. Monaghan, Robert Bunting
Staff: Michele Bachmann, Allen West, Dale Shoemaker, Alan Keyes, Richard Campbell
Funders: Grassroots Funding
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