Sharia Law ‘Serious Problem’ Says House Speaker
Sharia law is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., says.
“There’s a lot of energy in the country and a lot of popular sentiment that the demand to impose Sharia law in America is a serious problem,” he told reporters. “That’s what animates this. Sharia law is contrary to the U.S. Constitution. Our Constitution is the greatest in the world. It’s the longest-surviving constitution on the planet, and we’re 250 years into this grand experiment in self-governance.”
Johnson was responding to a controversial social media post in which Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., said, “Muslims don’t belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie.” Johnson said that although he might not necessarily agree with Ogles’ tone, he appreciates the concern he expressed, according to the Christian Post.
“When you seek to come to a country and not assimilate but to impose Sharia law, that is the conflict that people are talking about,” he said. “It is not about people as Muslims; it is about those who seek to impose a different belief system that is in direct conflict with the Constitution.”
Johnson was echoing sentiments he expressed last month when he noted that the Bible does not demand a nation accept immigrants who refuse to assimilate. In January, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, launched the Sharia-Free America Caucus with another Texas congressman amid fears their state has been inundated with Muslim immigrants who have no intention of assimilating but aim instead to establish self-governing enclaves under Sharia.
In February, Roy chaired a House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government on the topic in which he said he has spoken to Texans in the Dallas-Fort Worth area who claim parts of the Metroplex have effectively become “no-go zones” for non-Muslims, similar to situations in Europe and the United Kingdom. Democratic members scoffed at the threat of Sharia while warning about what they deemed the greater threat posed by “white Christian nationalism,” which they never defined.
–Alan Goforth
