FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Sharia Free America Caucus will present a suite of policies to prevent Sharia law from entering U.S. politics during its first press conference scheduled for Feb. 3, The Daily Signal has learned.
During the press conference, the caucus, led by Republican Reps. Keith Self and Chip Roy of Texas, will present legislative actions that seek to “protect the American people from the advancements of Sharia Law.”
“Members of Congress are convening to sound the alarm about the rising presence and accelerating spread of Sharia in the United States,” Self told The Daily Signal. “If allowed to spread, Sharia will completely erode the bedrock of Western values, individual liberties, and freedoms that define America.”
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.
Measures that will be promoted in the press conference include the No Tax Exemptions for Terrorist Act. The bill aims to target funding for groups allegedly tied to Sharia law, such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council for American Islamic Relations, Self’s office told The Daily Signal.
Other measures include Roy’s Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act and the No Sharia Act, which bars the enforcement of Sharia-based judgments in U.S. courts and designates followers of Sharia law as “inadmissible” to the United States.
“Any alien in the United States found to be an adherent of Sharia law by the Secretary of State, Secretary of Homeland Security, or Attorney General shall have any immigration benefit, immigration relief, or visa revoked, be considered inadmissible or deportable, and shall be removed from the United States,” the Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act states.
The press conference will also focus on resolutions that aim to codify President Donald Trump’s executive orders designating groups like the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations.
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.”
“We need to call evil by its name. Sharia Law seeks to subjugate women and wage violence against non-Muslims; it seeks to destroy what made America, America,” Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., recently told The Daily Signal.