Aside from the assumption that all women who wear hijab are anti-Semitic by default, Jeanine Pirro uses sharia law as a way to say Rep. Omar is against the United States Constitution. While far from a sound argument the Islamic Supreme Council of America (ISCA) clarifies to whom the tenants of Sharia apply to:

The organization goes on to detail the extremist perversion of the religious text that is a common facet of the radical Wahabi sect of Islam.

One of the main forms of extremism in religion is complete ignorance of the comprehensive nature of Islam. This is what makes an individual who has knowledge of parts but not the whole think he has entered the circle of scholars when the fact is he knows nothing but bits and pieces that he uses to deduce a verdict. Such a verdict will invariably be fraught with error.

In their ignorance of religion and in their pride, people are lead to hold tight to the literal meanings of the source texts without trying to understand the multiple meanings and the intent and purpose behind the revelation or a relevant action or saying of the Prophet (s). Today extremists are bringing back the school that was known as the school of literality (al-dhahiri). That school originally refused to take into consideration qiyas, analogy, or reasoning between different rules, or precedence in law.

A simple example: the Prophet (s) prohibited individuals from traveling to areas of non-Muslims or areas of unbelievers carrying the Holy Qur’ān.[57] If we look today however, we find that the Holy Qur’ān is on the shelf of the library of any country in the world, Muslim or not.

In the time of the Prophet (s), the concern was that the Holy Qur’ān time was written by hand in fragments of skins and parchment, etc. and there was fear that the words might be twisted and meanings altered. Today that problem no longer exists, as the Qur’ān has been gathered and formalized, so to travel with the Qur’ān is no longer an issue.

The extremist on the other hand, will declare that the letter of the saying must be obeyed, without taking into consideration the circumstances and reasons for this ruling.

Pirro’s statement spread misinformation and has been called Islamophobic in nature by many detractors over the past several days. Pirro’s claims are also in conflict with the ‘free exercise clause’ found in the First Amendment of the Constitution which reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

Simply put, Muslims living in the United States are not in violation of the Constitution due to their religion.

“Such an open and un-American expression of religious bigotry should be rejected by any media outlet seeking even a modicum of credibility,” said Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) National Executive Director Nihad Awad in a press release by CAIR to journalists. “Jeanine Pirro should be fired, and Fox News should apologize to its viewing audience.”

Awad would also call for advertisers to boycott the network. Fox News responded to widespread criticism in a brief statement released to the press.

Pirro also responded to the situation backtracking from her original tone, “I’ve seen a lot of comments about my opening statement from Saturday night’s show and I did not call Rep. Omar un-American,” she began. “My intention was to ask a question and start a debate, but of course because one is Muslim does not mean you don’t support the Constitution.”