. 14 others have proposals to ban quote "foreign" law, which islamic groups say is code for shariah.proponents say they want to event extremists from trying to subvert the u.s. constitution. u.s. muslim leaders say the measures are unnecessary and unfairly single out their faith. >> those individuals and organizations -- who have sought to make this, fabricate this, so-called creeping sharia threat, have tried to make it part of our national scourse -- seek to divide us as americans. this is precisely, at the end, what they seek to do is to marginalize and divide a specific group of americans against other groups of americans." >>> another poll out this week shows that evangelical leaders in the so-called global south -- africa, latin america and asia -- are much more optimistic about the future of evangelicalism than those from the global north, which includes europe and north america. according to the pew forum on religion and public life, a majority of leadersrom the south, 58%, believe that evangelicals are gaining influence in their countries. anwhile, mt leaders from the north,