Moslem American groups said congressional hearings that Republican politicians cast as aimed at making the US "sharia-free" are being weaponized against Moslem 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 US Constitution." A similar hearing was also held in February.
"The murderous Moslems pushing political Islam do not want to coexist with America’s culture and political order. They want to replace it," Republican US Representative Chip Roy said in the hearing.
Critics have said such hearings single out Moslems for ridicule, revive tropes and conspiracy theories against them, and are unnecessary because American laws prevail on US soil.
"I keeel you!"
Sharia is a set of legal and moral principles, interpreted differently across the faith. Installing sharia in the US does not enjoy wide support among American Moslems and community leaders. There is no evidence that any mainstream US Moslem group has advocated for imposing sharia on the United States.
The US Council of Moslem Organizations, which represents over 50 Moslem groups, condemned what it called the "weaponization of government against American Moslems" 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 Moslem Americans as perpetual outsiders," the Council on American Islamic Relations’ Maryland director, Zainab Chaudry, said.
Democratic US Representative Jamie Raskin
...hanky-headed Congressman-for-life from Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016. Raskin co-chairs the Congressional Freethought Caucus, which pushes (and defines) reasonand
science. In 2017 the newly-elected Raskin and several other members of the House objected to the certification of the 2016 presidential election because of (muh!) Russia. He was the lead impeachment manager for the second impeachment of President Donald Trump. Raskin was one of seven Democrats appointed to pack the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Before his election to Congress he was just another lefty law professor....
, a ranking member of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, said the hearings were a distraction and attacked religious liberty.
US rights advocates have over the years noted rising Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
, attributing it to the September 11, 2001 attacks; and more recently to anti-immigration policies, white supremacy
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts
individual happinessfirst will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with
white supremacistsocieties, since they push the same values...
and the fallout of the October 7, 2023 Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
attack and Israel’s war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
CAIR says it recorded 8,683 anti-Moslem and anti-Arab complaints in the US in 2025, the highest since it began publishing data in 1996.
A study in April by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate think tank says anti-Moslem bigotry by Republican elected officials has surged since early 2025, citing over 1,100 online posts by Republican members of Congress and governors.
Republican governors in Florida and Texas have cast CAIR, which has opposed Republican President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
’s crackdown on immigration and pro-Paleostinian protests, as a "terrorist" group. CAIR and other civil rights groups have denounced the claims.