The Quran & Hadith
Questions where the Quran, the Hadith, and Islamic jurisprudence are cited on governance, justice, and mercy.
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- Immigration & Border SecurityWhat the Bible Says About Immigrants and ForeignersThe Bible commands love and just treatment of immigrants and foreigners more frequently than nearly any other obligation.
- Immigration & Border SecurityDoes the Constitution Give Due Process to All Immigrants?The Constitution explicitly protects "persons" rather than "citizens" — a deliberate textual choice in both the 5th and 14th Amendments.
- Immigration & Border SecurityMass Deportations and Constitutional Due ProcessReligious traditions consistently reject treating people as categories — the moral logic that "each person is worth a world" runs across Christianity…
- Immigration & Border SecurityWhat the Founding Documents Say About ImmigrationThe founding documents are clearer about immigration than the contemporary debate suggests: the Declaration listed obstruction of immigration as a tyranny…
- Immigration & Border SecurityTrump v. Barbara: The Supreme Court Upholds Birthright CitizenshipReligious traditions hold that children are not punishable for their parents' actions or status.
- Immigration & Border SecurityKilmar Abrego Garcia and Defying a Supreme Court OrderReligious traditions hold that the state's power to take a person from their home is among the gravest powers it possesses — and must be checked by careful…
- Immigration & Border SecurityAsylum Metering at the Border: Mullin v. Al Otro LadoReligious traditions converge with unusual force on the refugee's right to ask — not to be guaranteed admission, but to be heard at the gate.
- Immigration & Border SecurityICE Shootings and Lethal Force in Immigration EnforcementBeing in the country without authorization is a civil violation. Fleeing a traffic stop is not a capital offense. Tennessee v.
- Voting Rights & ElectionsShelby County and the Supreme Court's Impact on the Voting Rights ActThe Voting Rights Act was the most consequential civil rights statute in American history — and the religious traditions whose moral language shaped it (the…
- Voting Rights & ElectionsHow Secure Is Mail-In Voting? What the Evidence SaysReligious traditions are unanimous: truth matters more than politically useful narratives.
- Voting Rights & ElectionsWhich Election Policies Best Reflect Equal Citizenship?Religious traditions affirm the equal moral standing of every person — the foundation of any concept of equal citizenship.
- Voting Rights & ElectionsThe Mid-Decade Gerrymandering Arms RaceReligious traditions condemn the use of crooked weights and measures because they corrupt the system itself.
- Voting Rights & ElectionsCourts Striking Voter Reforms but Allowing Legislative GerrymandersReligious traditions are unanimous on a narrow point: justice requires that the same standard be applied to all parties.
- Voting Rights & ElectionsBetting on Elections: Prediction Markets and the MidtermsGambling on election outcomes: what the Quran, Torah, Gospels, and Buddhist teaching say about betting, and what the Constitution and federal law say about markets that price democracy.
- Democracy & Constitutional OrderFederal Force Against ProtestersThe right to peacefully protest is among the most explicitly protected rights in the Constitution.
- Reproductive RightsDo Religions Require Judging Women Who Have Abortions?No major religious tradition teaches an obligation to judge or shame women who have had abortions — and several (most notably Christianity through Jesus's…
- Reproductive RightsDo Religions See Judging Others as a Sin?Every major religious tradition identifies judging others as a moral wrong — Jesus's "judge not lest you be judged," Pirkei Avot's "do not judge your fellow…
- Religion & JudgmentIs Mocking Atheists or Other Religions Anti-Religious?Every major religious tradition explicitly forbids mocking or judging those of different beliefs — often more forcefully than it addresses the unbelief…
- Religion & JudgmentThe Core Teaching Across Religions: Lift Others UpReligious traditions that disagree about almost everything else agree on the moral center: lift others up, do not tear them down.
- Religion & JudgmentDoes Judging the 'Other Side' Besmirch Your Own Faith?Every major religious tradition commands its adherents to treat opponents — including enemies — with dignity.
- Technology & AI EthicsAI and Algorithmic Bias: Religious and Constitutional PrinciplesReligious traditions across the world treat each person as having inherent worth that cannot be reduced to demographic categories — the premise underlying…
- Technology & AI EthicsDeepfakes and AI Misinformation: What Religions Teach About TruthThe prohibition on deception — particularly fabricated witness about other people — is among the most universal teachings across religious traditions.
- Technology & AI EthicsPrivacy and Surveillance: Religious and Constitutional PrinciplesReligious traditions across the world treat privacy as a moral category — protecting the inner space for conscience, family, and personal life that the…
- Technology & AI EthicsThe Right to Repair DebateReligious traditions across the world endorse stewardship of material goods and treat wasteful disposal of repairable items as a moral failing.
- Economic JusticeWhat Religious Teachings Say About Wealth InequalityEvery major religious tradition treats wealth as a serious moral concern and concentrated wealth as a particular danger — Jesus on the eye of the needle, the…
- Economic JusticePrinciples Behind the Student Loan Forgiveness DebateReligious traditions across the world support debt relief — and Jewish, Christian, and Islamic teaching specifically endorse periodic structural debt…
- Environment & ClimateWhat Religious Teachings Say About Environmental StewardshipReligious traditions across the world treat the natural world as a moral trust — humans as stewards, not owners.
- Environment & ClimateClean Water and Air as Fundamental RightsReligious traditions across the world treat water and air as sacred shared resources — Christian creation theology, Jewish bal tashchit , Islamic communal…
- Environment & ClimateAI Data Centers, Water, Power, and Eminent DomainReligious traditions teach that natural resources are held in trust for the community — not as commodities for unlimited private extraction.
- Environment & ClimateShrinking Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-EscalanteThe land-management debate is real: rural communities have legitimate grievances about decisions made far away, and reasonable people disagree about how much…
- Free Speech & MediaCancel Culture and AccountabilityReligious traditions support accountability and restoration over destruction — Christian gentleness in restoration, Jewish teshuvah , Islamic tawbah …
- Free Speech & MediaConditioning University Research Funding on Speech PoliciesReligious traditions built universities precisely because they understood that truth requires protection from political coercion.
- Free Speech & MediaThe Prairieland Nine: Protest, Terrorism Charges, and NSPM-7Proportionate punishment and guilt by association: what scripture and the Constitution say about the Prairieland sentences and the NSPM-7 crackdown.
- Free Speech & MediaFiring the Editors of Stars and StripesThe Pentagon's firing of Stars and Stripes journalists after critical reporting: what scripture says about truth-tellers before power and what the First Amendment protects.
- Criminal JusticeThe Death Penalty in Religious and Constitutional TeachingReligious traditions are divided, but most major traditions — Jewish practice, contemporary Catholic teaching, mainline Protestantism, Buddhism, much of…
- Criminal JusticePolicing and Use of ForceReligious traditions affirm both the legitimacy of public order and the obligation to limit the violence used to maintain it.
- Criminal JusticeIncarceration and RehabilitationReligious traditions across the world insist on the dignity of the incarcerated and the possibility of change — Jesus identified himself with prisoners…
- Healthcare & WelfareIs Healthcare a Right or a Responsibility?Religious traditions across the world converge on healthcare as a communal moral obligation — Jesus's healing ministry and the first Christian hospitals…
- LGBTQ+ RightsThe Dignity of LGBTQ+ People in Religious TeachingReligious traditions divide substantively on LGBTQ+ questions but converge on the underlying principle of inherent human dignity — every tradition teaches…
- LGBTQ+ RightsState Restrictions on Medical Care for Transgender MinorsReligious traditions place children at the center of moral concern and grant parents primary authority over their care.
- EducationSchool Choice and Religious SchoolsReligious traditions universally value education and have built extensive religious educational institutions across history.
- EducationPublic Funding of EducationEvery major religious tradition treats education as a religious value or obligation — Jewish communal schools since the 1st century, Islamic pioneer…
- Gun Rights & ViolenceWhat Religion and the Second Amendment Say About Bearing ArmsReligious traditions support self-defense while consistently warning against weapons becoming the primary response to social problems.
- Gun Rights & ViolenceSanctity of Life and Gun Violence PreventionEvery major religious tradition teaches that protecting life is a paramount duty — and extends the obligation from individuals to communities.
- Separation of Church & StateCan a Leader Claim Faith Belongs to One Party?No political leader has the authority to decide who is or isn't a person of faith — every major religion reserves that judgment for God alone.
- Separation of Church & StateTen Commandments in Public School ClassroomsIn 1980 the Supreme Court answered exactly this question — a state law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in every public-school classroom — and…
- Government Transparency & AccountabilityThe Epstein Files: Who Gets Protected?The law required transparency about the powerful and protection for victims. What was delivered was the opposite: victims exposed, enablers shielded.
- Government Transparency & AccountabilityGovernment Secrecy and the Public's Right to KnowBoth religious traditions and the Constitution presume that governance should be transparent.
- Government Transparency & AccountabilityAI Mass Surveillance of CitizensReligious traditions across the board treat the dignity of human privacy as a serious moral concern — and warn that rulers who build elaborate watching…
- Government Efficiency & Federal SpendingDismantling the Department of EducationReligious traditions across the world treat the education of children — and especially the protection of the most vulnerable children — as a moral foundation…
- Tariffs & International TradeEconomic Nationalism and 'Love Your Neighbor'Every major religious tradition teaches that "neighbor" extends beyond borders and that economic relationships should build mutual flourishing.
- Tariffs & International TradeTrade as a Weapon: Sanctions and Economic CoercionReligious traditions require that the use of power — including economic power — be proportional, targeted, and measured by its impact on the most vulnerable.
- Tariffs & International TradeThe Supreme Court Strikes Down Presidential TariffsThe Constitution gives the power to tax and to set tariffs to Congress — deliberately, prominently, and as a direct lesson of the Revolution.
- Tariffs & International TradeThe 2026 Trade War With CanadaA 50 percent tariff war with Canada, examined through scripture on neighbors and the Constitution's rule that Congress, not the president, holds the taxing power.
- Executive Power & Checks and BalancesHow Religions Say to Treat Political OpponentsEvery major religion commands treating opponents with dignity — even enemies. The Constitution was built on the assumption that political opponents are…
- Executive Power & Checks and BalancesPressuring the Federal Reserve ChairReligious traditions teach that honest weights and measures are foundational to a just community — and warn against those who would manipulate them for…
- Executive Power & Checks and BalancesPresidential Dell Stock and a $9.7B Pentagon ContractA president who buys a stock, publicly tells crowds to buy the same stock, presides over an administration that awards the company a $9.7 billion contract…
- War Powers & Foreign Policy'America First' as a Foreign Policy DoctrinePutting your own people first is a duty every government and every faith tradition affirms.
- War Powers & Foreign PolicyMilitary Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats Without TrialDrug trafficking is a serious harm, and no religious tradition pretends otherwise.
- War Powers & Foreign PolicyThe Targeted Killing of Anwar al-AwlakiThe al-Awlaki case is one of the most important constitutional events of the past two decades, and one this site is applying its standards to a Democratic…
- Cultural Institutions & Public MemoryFederal Control Over Museums and Public MemoryEvery religious tradition treats honest memory as a moral obligation — including the memory of national sins.
- Cultural Institutions & Public MemoryRenaming Lake Ontario "Lake America"Erasing a 400-year-old Indigenous place name to punish a trading partner: what religious teachings and the founding framework say about names, memory, and grievance.
- Cultural Institutions & Public MemoryRenaming the USS Doris Miller for a Sitting PresidentReports that the Navy may rename the future USS Doris Miller for the sitting president, examined through scripture on honor and humility and the founders on personal glorification.
- Polarizing Ideologies & Movements'America First' as a Movement and IdeologyReligious traditions affirm that nations have particular obligations to their own people — that part of America First is unobjectionable.
- Polarizing Ideologies & MovementsIdentity Politics Across the Political SpectrumReligious traditions across the world converge on the principle that every person is made in the image of God (or its tradition-specific equivalent) and that…