Muslim American groups say Republicans are weaponizing congressional hearings

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Source: Reuters

May 14, 2026 8:03 PM EDT Updated 10 hours ago


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.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/muslim-american-groups-say-republicans-are-weaponizing-congressional-hearings-2026-05-15/

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1. And?

What did they expect?

https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-exit-poll-of-muslim-voters-reveals-surge-in-support-for-jill-stein-and-donald-trump-steep-decline-for-harris/

"The national results show Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein received 53% of the Muslim vote, followed by President-elect Donald Trump with 21% and Vice President Kamala Harris with 20%."

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8. Indeed.

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9. Yep

They sure showed genocide Joe and killer Kamala a thing or two

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2. Rep. Roy, the same can be said about radical Christian denominations.

"The ​radicals pushing political Islam do not want to coexist with America's culture and ⁠political order. They want to replace it,"

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3. Pedo Don and MAGAT - Free America:

Why Pedo Don and MAGA are incompatible with the U.S. Constitution!

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4. Republicans prefer

the Christian version of Sharia Law. The same rules and believes apply, the differences are external. They are both illogical and irrational systems, internally contradictory and confining, insisting people live by nonsensical rules. No wonder so many of the religious are so violent. Finding internal peace does not require religious rituals or rigid rules that restrict the minds eye to see what is all.

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5. This is clearly unconstitutional and bigoted.

All religion is up to the interpretation of the individual. That's why we have so many different Christian denominations in this country. They are all interpreting the bible differently. We are protected by our laws and the Constitution. "Congress shall pass no laws regarding the establishment of religion, nor the free practice thereof."

This is obviously another attempt at a wedge issue for the midterms.

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6. Whenever they are losing ground

due to their inability to govern, they automatically switch to fringe wedge issues that reignite racism, antisemtism, sexism, homophobia/transphobia, and nativism.

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7. Since before the days of Joseph McCarthy.