Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sharia in the United States

Sharia in the United States

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This looks like a blatant POV essay/thoughtpiece made up of OR - and it has unsourced claims like "some sources have alleged that certain judges at the state level have been handing out sentences based on Sharia Law."! -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 18:16, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And the example case included is only supported by sensationalist news sources that use the word "Sharia" - there is no reliable source offered to support a claim that telling someone he should not have deliberately offended Muslims is an actual example of the implementation of Sharia law. And frontpagemag is not a reliable source when it comes to its opinion pieces. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 18:20, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
A couple of other sources used in the article don't look reliable either - http://shariahinamericancourts.com/ appears to be an anti-Sharia advocacy site, and http://www.onenewsnow.com is a Christian site. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 18:32, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Let's not confuse validity with notability. The idea of sharia law being imposed in the US is a political bogeyman if ever there was one, but there's plenty of coverage of the topic, especially around stunts like Oklahoma's sharia ban. The article is in poor shape now, but revision is a better option than deletion. --BDD (talk) 18:51, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Not opposed to a rewrite, but if we take out the blatantly POV material sourced to unreliable advocacy sites, and the unsourced claims, there would be nothing left of the current article. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 19:32, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per Boing! said Zebedee's reasoning. This would require a fundamental rewrite in order to be useful to the project. I suggest drafting first, and once more sources are available (if they indeed exist), the article can be sourced more reliably. The fact that none of this article's information is included in the main Sharia article also gives me pause. Also, take a look at this article that we already have. I still say delete rather than merge because there's almost nothing from this article that could reasonably be merged (since there aren't really any reliable sources). Sleddog116 (talk) 20:04, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. ★☆ DUCKISJAMMMY☆★ 19:58, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. ★☆ DUCKISJAMMMY☆★ 19:58, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete and rewrite in favor of what BDD is proposing.--v/r - T P 20:16, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and Merge Merge Ban on Sharia law into this article. In other words, Keep this article. Prachursharma (talk) 20:36, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]