Afghan refugees unvetted by Biden are committing domestic battery, child rape, polygamy and other crimes in the U.S., and are telling authorities they didn’t do anything wrong because such acts were legal in Afghanistan under Sharia law.
This is what the Democrats want for our country.
And it’s not just Afghanistan:
ENGLAND: A Palestinian refugee from Gaza, who arrived claiming to be fleeing a ‘genocide’, was arrested for attempting to rape a 14-year-old girl.
He defended himself: “According to Sharia law, raping a non-Muslim girl is legal. I only follow Allah and Sharia law.”
Pure evil! pic.twitter.com/7hEEsihlBd
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) June 4, 2026
GOP Battles Sharia: Is Islamic Law a Threat or Dog Whistle?
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations, May 27, 2026
In what they hope will become a hot-button election issue in the November midterms, congressional Republicans unnerved by the spread of Islam are holding hearings and proposing legislation to prevent immigrants who adhere to “Sharia law” from entering or staying in the U.S.
The lawmakers, who have the backing of President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, warn that unless mass immigration from nations like Afghanistan and Somalia is curbed, America will soon look like Europe, where critics say waves of Muslim migrants have formed “parallel societies” that undermine local authority and create conditions for jihadi and other criminal activity.
One controversial proposal by GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama would deport any recent Muslim immigrant and deny entry for any new immigrant “who advocates for the imposition of Sharia law in a manner that would violate the Constitution or any federal or state law.”
ADVERTISEMENTIn practice, the proposed legislation would require the departments of State and Homeland Security to screen immigrants from Muslim nations, including refugees seeking asylum, based on a battery of questions that would seek to suss out radical Islamic beliefs. Entrants subsequently found to have made false statements during the enhanced vetting process would have their visas revoked and be deported. It goes beyond continuing efforts to identify immigrants who might support violence against the U.S. to address wider concerns about belief systems many see as being at odds with American culture.
Noting reports of Iran’s successful efforts to recruit sympathetic Muslims in Europe who have perpetrated a string of arson attacks against Jewish sites, proponents say the increased number of immigrants from countries hostile to America makes such moves necessary.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations and other Muslim-rights groups are slamming the bill as an unconstitutional “religious litmus test.” They argue that Sharia doctrine is based on Islamic holy text, chiefly the Quran and Hadith, and is a total way of life for observant Muslims, no different, they say, than the role that corollary religious texts play in the lives of pious Christians or orthodox Jews.
“Sharia is not a foreign legal system to be banned. It is a moral and spiritual path that calls on American Muslims to pray, give charity, treat others honestly, and stand up for what is right,” CAIR said in a statement. “Trying to ban Sharia would be no different than banning Jewish halacha or Catholic canon law. It is a direct assault on religious freedom itself.”
Unlike mainstream Christianity or Judaism, however, Islamism often sanctions practices at odds with not only American culture but also the U.S. legal system – including domestic violence, female circumcision, child marriage, and honor killings. Sharia also calls for eventual conquest over coexistence, says Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Hoover Institution research fellow who was born a Muslim in Somalia and now advocates for an Islamic reformation.
“It’s the duty of the believer to spread [Sharia] by any means necessary. It’s a political doctrine. There is no separation of politics from religion,” Ali said in a recent exchange with Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), chairman of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on border security and immigration. “And that’s radically different from Christianity. Christ never said overthrow the [Roman] empire. In fact, he said quite the opposite (including ‘Give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s,’ according to the Bible).”
At a time when the United States is experiencing a period of immigration turmoil involving national identity, culture, and the once powerful demands of assimilation – as well as fierce partisan fights over Trump administration deportation policies – Republicans have seized on Islam as a symbol of the fracturing of the American project.
ADVERTISEMENTWhile the country has long accommodated religious and ethnic communities with practices in conflict with mainstream culture – including the Amish, Orthodox Jews, as well as countless smaller sects and even cults – many conservatives see the surging Muslim population and ambitions of many Islamic leaders as a wider threat to national unity. They liken their efforts to the pressure put on Mormons more than a century ago to forsake their practice of polygamy.
In a mirror reflection of such concerns, many progressives have been warning about the rise of so-called “Christian nationalism,” while pooh-poohing the threat from Islamism. In 2023, a series of controversial FBI memos relying in part on reporting from the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center categorized “radical-traditionalist Catholics” as potential domestic terrorists.
Parallel Society
The broader issue is that the American political zeitgeist seems incapable of converting immigrants to its own values, which will allow Muslims to erect parallel societies. Others see this as a great strength of a nation long defined by its tolerance for diversity and multiculturalism.
Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, who is the author of a companion anti-Sharia bill in the House, is so alarmed by what he calls the “Islamization” of the Lone Star State that he’s started a Sharia-Free America Caucus to draft additional measures to stop Islamic law from taking root in America. Its membership has more than doubled to 63 representatives from two dozen states in just the past few months.
The effort is not confined to customs and practices but also to broader concerns about potential Islamic “no-go zones” that invoke rights to religious liberty and free association. In Texas, a protest movement has risen up against the East Plano Islamic Center, a planned Sharia-compliant “city” just outside Dallas, where the Muslim population has surged to an estimated 110,000 and now makes up about 8% of the total population. The Dallas area now boasts more than 60 mosques. (See sidebar on Sharia’s growing influence on U.S. finance).
Documents reveal that the Islamic leaders behind the project have already sold more than 340 residential lots. They say they are building the enclave, anchored by a massive mosque, to serve “the Muslim community” and to one day become the “epicenter of Islam in North America.”
Ret. Plano (Texas) Police Lt. Doug Deaton and other local police worry that EPIC city (as it is known locally), built on 402 acres of unincorporated land, may operate as an Islamic compound unaccountable to authorities. It’s now the subject of both state and federal investigations. If it’s allowed to go forward, protestors fear, other exclusionary Muslim enclaves based on Sharia law could crop up around other cities.
“Sharia is entrenched and operating across the state,” warned Krista Shields, who worked as an American Airlines flight attendant on 9/11 and is now organizing local resistance to EPIC and the overall “Islamic threat.” “This is the construction of a parallel society on Texas soil.”
EPIC’s organizers insist it is not a separatist movement with its own government. They also say the development – which will include Islamic schools, halal grocery stores, and Sharia-compliant banks – will be open to non-Muslims, although it originally was marketed as an exclusively Muslim community.
Supporters of Sharia bans say that while many Muslims living in America are fully assimilated and are either non-observant or practice their faith in a way entirely compatible with Western life, an estimated 65% recently emigrated from Islamic nations where Sharia is practiced and enforced – and are importing those values to these shores.
Different Values
That’s a major concern, they say, because Sharia law makes crimes of behaviors that are legal in the U.S. – such as blasphemy, apostasy, adultery, and homosexuality – and makes legal many acts that are crimes here, including polygamy, domestic violence, female circumcision, forced child marriage, and even so-called “honor” killings and violent jihad.
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