Three more House Republicans have joined the newly organized Sharia-Free America Caucus in the lower chamber of Congress, bringing the total membership to 43... -
Mark TapscottThe caucus was formed in response to
growing concerns in Congress and elsewhere about the recent surge in efforts by Muslim activists around the country to establish developments offered exclusively to followers of Islam and to
replace America’s local, state, and federal laws with Sharia law.- Sharia law is the civil and religious commands prescribed by the Quran to regulate public and private life.
Among much else, Sharia sanctions
- Muslim husbands treating wives as slaves,
- justifies Islamic men who rape non-Islamic women,
- requires the death penalty for those who identify as homosexual,
- death by stoning for adulterers, and
- forces non-Muslims to convert or face death by beheading...
Rep. Mary Scanlon (D-Pa.), the subcommittee’s ranking member, dismissed the hearing, accusing Roy and other Republicans of “stoking fear and suspicion of fellow Americans or anyone else on the explicit basis of their religious beliefs” and described GOP warnings about the suppression by Sharia law of all other beliefs as merely “hysterical rhetoric.”...
