Posted on 05/15/2026 4:33:16 AM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - Muslim American groups said congressional hearings that Republican lawmakers cast as aimed at making the U.S. "sharia-free" are being weaponized against Muslim minorities in the United States by stoking fear against them.
Republicans, who hold a majority in both chambers of Congress, titled a Wednesday hearing by a House Judiciary Subcommittee as "Sharia-Free America: Why Political Islam and Sharia Law are Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution." A similar hearing was also held in February.
"The radicals pushing political Islam do not want to coexist with America's culture and political order. They want to replace it," Republican U.S. Representative Chip Roy said in the hearing.
Critics have said such hearings single out Muslims for ridicule, revive tropes and conspiracy theories against them, and are unnecessary because American laws prevail on U.S. soil.
Sharia is a set of legal and moral principles, interpreted differently across the faith. Installing sharia in the U.S. does not enjoy wide support among American Muslims and community leaders. There is no evidence that any mainstream U.S. Muslim group has advocated for imposing sharia on the United States.
The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations, which represents over 50 Muslim groups, condemned what it called the "weaponization of government against American Muslims" and said the hearings engaged in "the politics of fear."
"Anti-Sharia hearings are not about protecting the Constitution. They are about demonizing Islam and portraying Muslim Americans as perpetual outsiders," the Council on American Islamic Relations' Maryland director, Zainab Chaudry, said.
Democratic U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin, a ranking member of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, said the hearings were a distraction and attacked religious liberty.
U.S. rights advocates have over the years noted rising Islamophobia, attributing it to the September 11, 2001 attacks; and more recently to anti-immigration policies, white supremacy...
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Out of America MoFos (Mohammed Followers). Mentally ill, pre-meditating murderers.
No such thing as a Muslim American . Just Muslims invading America
Take it one final step further….sharia is against the Constitution.
(Note….spell check initially put a capital ‘s’ on sharia and small ‘c’ on Constitution. I corrected it)
Islam has no place in western civilization.
Thousands of years of history show it to be so.
Oh, the Muzzies are gonna see some weapons.
Sooner or later.
Muslim American is a contradiction in terms, an oxymoron. You can be a Jewish American, a Christian American an atheist American but a Muslim is a Muslim PERIOD.
I really do not care about these religious and ethnic groups thinking they are entitled to special treatment by virtue of living and grouping in this country.
This country is for AMERICANS and if you aren’t one, and don’t want to be one, and act as one with all others who are American, then get the hell out because you do not belong here.
This does not just apply to muzzards. It applies to any group who thinks they have some right to bitch and complain unless their wheels get greased.
A genocide of Christians is being played out now in Nigeria.
"The status of non-Muslims, or dhimmis, under Islamic rule was codified through the Pact of Umar, which established a framework of legal inequality. This status required Christians to pay the jizya (poll tax) and adhere to restrictive social codes, such as prohibitions on building new churches, public displays of religious symbols, and requirements to wear distinctive clothing.
Instances of extreme violence and systemic persecution often occurred during periods of political instability or religious revivalism. In 1009, the Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah ordered the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, a pivotal event that signaled a departure from earlier, more tolerant policies. Later, the Seljuk Turks’ capture of Jerusalem in 1091 led to the expulsion of Christian clergy, further destabilizing the region.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Ottoman Empire experienced a period of intense violence against Christian minorities. The Chios Massacre of 1822 saw the mass killing of the Greek population on the island during the Greek War of Independence. This culminated in the "Thirty-Year Genocide" (1894–1924), during which the Ottoman state systematically targeted Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks. This period included the 1915 Armenian Genocide, characterized by mass deportations and death marches into the Syrian desert.
In the modern era, the Islamic State (IS) implemented a policy of forced conversion, enslavement, and execution in Iraq and Syria, particularly after the fall of Mosul in 2014. This resulted in the near-total exodus of Christian populations from their ancestral lands in the Nineveh Plains. Similar patterns of violence have been observed in Nigeria, where groups like Boko Haram have targeted Christian communities to enforce their interpretation of religious law."
Re: 'Christian History Institute. 3 Phases of Christian-Muslim Interaction: Timeline.'; 'Tseligka, Eleni. One Hundred Years of Bloodshed: The Extermination of Christians by Muslims in the Ottoman Empire, 1822–1922. ; Ye'or, Bat. The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam.; Persecution of Christians by the Islamic State. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_by_the_Islamic_State
You lost me at Muslim American Groups Say........
Islam is not a religion. It is a Political system of controlling the population.
Nonsense. Weaponizing hearings is when we lure you in to “testify” and then open fire. We aren’t doing that...
Muslim American = Oxymoron
I agree with you about 95%. The problem is that you are using the wrong term to describe the invaders.
The word "muslim" sounds like the arabic word for "follower of God". Obviously this is wrong.
The word "moslem" sounds like the arabic word for "evil person". Seeing as islam commands it's followers to lie, steal, rape, and murder, I would say that "moslem" is a far more accurate description of them.
Mohammad, piss be upon him.
Trying to put the genie back in the bottle, so to speak, Sweden has banned any official use of that term. It's a start; but maybe the horse is already out of the barn.
The constitution has nothing in it that refers to the evil death cult of Muslims. The need to leave, NOW!
The reason for Muslims being incompatible with the US is simple. Sharia law is both secular and civilian. When there is conflict, the secular power can override civilian law. THAT is why muslims can’t become Americans.
Muslims have cleverly coined the word “islamophobia.” A phobia is an irrational fear not based on actual threat. We have real reason to fear Islam and it is not irrational. We need a clever word to depict our justified fear of Islam.
Muslims in America have no intention of assimilating into our culture and society. Rather, they are creating a parallel society as evidenced by trying to establish a Muslim city in Texas having 1,000 residences, a Muslim STEM University, Islamic schools along with many other Muslim enclaves across America.
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