Less than a month after it was launched, 24 Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have already joined the Sharia Free America Caucus. Republican Reps. Keith Self and Chip Roy of Texas created the caucus to “fight back against the radical ideology” and “save Western Civilization from the threat of Sharia.”
“Sharia law and groups linked to radical Islamist ideology seek to gain a foothold in our communities, challenging the Constitution and the Western values on which our nation was founded,” Roy told The Daily Signal. “I am encouraged that more Members of Congress are recognizing these threats and are joining the Sharia Free America Caucus to confront them head-on in Congress.”
‘Nations Are Losing Their Identity and Freedoms’ to Radical Islam
The threat of Sharia law in Muslim-dominated American communities has increasingly garnered conservative lawmakers’ attention.
Sharia law is a system of Islamic religious law that guides personal behavior and civil and criminal justice, often in conflict with Western concepts of liberty and government.
Self, the caucus’s co-founder, told The Daily Signal that the group’s “core mission is to sound the alarm on the alarming rise and spread of Sharia in the United States—before it erodes our sovereignty, culture, and way of life,” as it has been seen “in parts of Europe, where nations are losing their identity and freedoms.”
The caucus hopes to “educate” Congress, foreign lawmakers, and the American people on the “clear dangers of Sharia,” to “U.S. law and our constitutional rights, while preventing “any infiltration of Sharia,” through the reinforcement of America’s legal and immigration systems, and the advancement of “bold legislation.”
In March of 2025, the first major Sharia law-only compound, known as EPIC City, emerged in the United States.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted that he has “signed laws that BAN Sharia Law and Sharia Compounds in Texas.”
In response, the Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations condemned Abbott’s response.
What the Sharia Free America Caucus Wants
The “bold” initiatives championed by the group include the Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act and the No Sharia Act, which aims to bar the enforcement of Sharia-based judgments in U.S. courts.
Other legislation upheld by the caucus includes the No Tax Exemptions for Terrorist Acts, which would target the funding and tax-exempt status of groups tied to Sharia Law, such as the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR.
By enacting such legislation, the caucus aims to ensure that “no foreign legal system, religious code, or radical ideology will ever supersede the Constitution as the unchallenged foundation of American governance,” Self added.
Other members, such as Reps. Randy Fine, R-Fla., and Mark Harris, R-N.C., told The Daily Signal that the caucus ultimately aims to “call evil by its name” and “reduce the threat of radical Islam.”
Harris told The Daily Signal that “radical Islam isn’t just a threat in places like Mamdani’s New York City—it’s already here in suburban North Carolina and spreading rapidly across America.”
Fine told The Daily Signal that “mainstream Islam is one of the biggest threats facing the United States today.”
“We just saw the Muslim attorney general in Minnesota siding with the rioters who stormed a Christian church because he claimed it was their First Amendment right to desecrate a place of worship,” Fine added.
“We need to call evil by its name. Sharia Law seeks to subjugate women; it seeks to destroy what made America America,” Fine continued. “We can see it in the Muslim Somalis, who have come to this country, where 84% are on welfare, and compare that to the Hindus, where 10% are on welfare.”
“We cannot ignore the danger on our doorstep. Sharia Law encourages its followers to harm innocent people—the exact opposite of our Constitution, which protects the liberty and rights of all Americans,” Harris added. “Radical Islam is not compatible with Western civilization.”
