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Why Anti-Sharia Bills Always Fail — and What Must Be Done Instead
Rair Foundation ^ | 01/01/2026 | Rair Foundation

Posted on 01/03/2026 7:17:23 PM PST by aimhigh

Elaine Ellinger’s article reveals why banning Sharia without defining religion is a legal fraud—and what must be done to stop the endless cycle of empty legislation.

Randy Fine’s proposed U.S. legislation, H.R. 5512, titled: No Shari’a Act, promises to prohibit U.S. courts from enforcing any ruling “based in whole or in part” on Sharia if it violates constitutional rights.

Hope is not strategy.

The bill is well-intentioned but doomed. Remarkably, the bill never once defines the word “Shari’a” — leaving judges to guess what qualifies. Without that definition, and without fixing the deeper constitutional blind spot on what actually qualifies as a protected “religion,” the legislation is unenforceable and, frankly, meaningless. (rest of article explains this and offers a solution)

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisharia; islam; moslem; muslim; sharia

1 posted on 01/03/2026 7:17:23 PM PST by aimhigh
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To: aimhigh

I wish we would define Islam as not a religion as defined under the constitution.
Because it isn’t in the spirit of the founders intention.


2 posted on 01/03/2026 7:29:51 PM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: aimhigh

amend the Constitution to outlaw any court of civil or criminal authority that operates outside of the constitutional frame work; throw in a ban on haijab and burqa in public just to make clear what is the target audience, just discourage any militancy in any way shape or form.


3 posted on 01/03/2026 7:30:15 PM PST by sopo
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To: sopo

the writer obviously is a better guide than i, but why noy just put it in am amendment. In 1787, there were those that said bill of rights was not necessary


4 posted on 01/03/2026 7:34:57 PM PST by sopo
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To: aimhigh
What Actually Works: A Legal Threshold for “Religion”.

The real solution is to do what the Founders never did: establish an objective legal threshold for what qualifies as a “religion” eligible for tax exemptions, institutional recognition, public funding and special accommodations.

Pre-1960s American courts (Reynolds v United States 1879, Davis v. Beason 1890, Utah’s inclusion in the republic — Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v U.S. 1890 [6]) and current European jurisprudence (e.g., ECtHR cases such as Refah Partisi v. Turkey (2003) [7] and Dogru v. France (2008) [8]) already recognize that a belief system can forfeit protected religious status when its authoritative doctrines:

(a) seek to replace the secular legal order,

(b) deny equal rights on grounds of sex or belief, or

(c) authorize violence or coercion against non-adherents or apostates.

My own proposed legislation — fully drafted for the United States, Canada, the U.K., and France — translates these principles into clear statutory language [9]. To earn public privileges, a belief system must demonstrably affirm:

>equality before the law (including testimony, inheritance, and divorce),
>rejection of violence or coercion to enforce belief,
>rejection of slavery and polygamy or FGM as religious rights [10],
>protection of children and freedom to leave the faith, and the supremacy of civil law over any competing legal code.

Peaceful, private belief remains fully protected. Public privilege, however, is conditional — and rightly so.

Without this, well-meaning legislation will never survive judicial review — and Sharia will continue advancing one accommodation at a time, protected by the very constitutional freedoms that classical Sharia doctrine explicitly seeks to restrict or replace.

Until Congress or the courts are willing to define both ‘Sharia’ and the outer boundaries of what qualifies as a protected ‘religion’ in a secular republic, every new anti-Sharia bill will die in committee or in court. The accommodation train will keep rolling — one prayer room, one halal cafeteria, one gender-segregated swimming hour at a time — until the destination is no longer recognizable as constitutional America.


5 posted on 01/03/2026 7:44:47 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: aimhigh
Sharia is part and parcel of Islam. An anti-Sharia law says you can be a Muslim but not practice the religion.

Sharia isn't just the icky stuff. It includes the dietary laws and even stuff we all agree about.

6 posted on 01/03/2026 7:50:47 PM PST by Salman (Trump is good, but we need Pinochet. )
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To: aimhigh

I believe, that not all sharia is bad.
It is a set of laws, based on Islam.
But not everything in it is bad. It contains some laws with which everybody would agree.
So just banning the whole sharia cannot be done.
One has to ban specific portion of sharia to be enforceable and not contra productive.


7 posted on 01/03/2026 7:56:07 PM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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To: aimhigh

If a religion includes human sacrifice, would it be legal to practice? No. Any religious “right” must first be legal in order to practice it freely.


8 posted on 01/03/2026 8:06:35 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: aimhigh

How can something be enforced if it is unconstitutional?


9 posted on 01/03/2026 8:07:22 PM PST by Racketeer
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Can we make you a Judge/Justice? More logic than most.


10 posted on 01/03/2026 8:18:26 PM PST by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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To: aimhigh

bump


11 posted on 01/03/2026 8:36:10 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Yesterday only comes one time. —Richard Starkey)
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To: aimhigh

Islamists are not participants in the social contract that is the Constitution. They have no intention of abiding by its terms; indeed they intend to subvert them and subsume the rest of the American population under Sharia. They are therefore undeserving of its protections.

No contract or agreement with an Infidel, and no oath of office a Muslim might take would they consider to be valid.


12 posted on 01/03/2026 9:07:15 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: aimhigh
and What Must Be Done Instead

Easy, deport them all

13 posted on 01/03/2026 9:14:57 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: logi_cal869; aimhigh

Something that might help make your case is the legal petition in India that tried to ban the Koran. It is discussed in the book “The Calcutta Quran Petition” by Sita Ram Goel [1]. The issues listed in the complaint include that the Koran

1. incites violence

2. disturbs public tranquility

3. promotes, on ground of religion, feelings of enmity, hatred and ill will between different religious communities

4. and insults other religions or religious beliefs of other communities in India.

A report on the book is at

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4343990/posts

The book itself is at

[1] Sita Ram Goel, “The Calcutta Quran Petition” (3rd ed.), 1999, Voice of India, New Delhi, https://archive.org/details/the-calcutta-quran-petition-sita-ram-goel/mode/2up


14 posted on 01/03/2026 10:17:03 PM PST by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: magooey
islam IS a War Plan.

moslems prove the koran teachings by their actions.

islam IS a cult that only worships murder and conquest.

IS a pathetic person unable to recognize this truth.

Thank You for Your Post and for allowing my rant.

15 posted on 01/04/2026 1:40:05 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: aimhigh
We are so afraid of insulting other religions that we do not dare fight back when other religions threaten us.
That mindset must change.
We should only show tolerance to religions that are peaceful and tolerant to us in return.

16 posted on 01/04/2026 8:25:48 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty)
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