Buckle up for this conversation. Brad strays from the traditional structure in the Bunker. Instead, he has a long discussion with author and speaker Sumbul Ali-Karamali, who stopped by to discuss her third book, Demystifying Shariah: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It’s Not Taking Over Our Country.
She takes a deep-dive into how the Radical Right used fear-mongering around Islamic law to push through its agenda. And, she and Brad are talking scientific studies, discussions of the law, the Nation of Islam, 9/11, a little media analysis…and this being the Jam—about ten minutes of Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica.
About Sumbul Ali-Karamali
Sumbul Ali-Karamali is the author of Demystifying Shariah: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It’s Not Taking Over Our Country. She is an award-winning author and popular speaker whose books, articles, blogs, and speaking events are her way of promoting intercultural understanding in the world. Sumbul—her name is the Persian word for “hyacinth”—grew up in Southern California, answering questions about Islam and Muslims.
With her degree in English (from Stanford University), her law degree (from the University of California at Davis), and her additional law degree in Islamic law (from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies), she left the world of corporate law to start writing books to answer those very questions. When not writing, Sumbul is a fiction and nonfiction judge, a board member of nonprofits dedicated to multicultural education, and a member of both the steering committee of Women in Islamic Spirituality and Equality (WISE) and the Muslim Women’s Global Shura Council, both of which aim to promote women’s rights and human rights from an Islamic perspective.
And when she’s not doing any of that, either, she’s listening to opera or watching Star Trek reruns with her family.
