MaddowBlog-The sudden Republican fixation on 'Sharia law' is getting increasingly weird

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Remember 11 years ago, when the right pushed a paranoid threat about the imposition of Islamic law on Americans? Evidently, the absurd fear is back.

Remember 11 years ago, when the right pushed paranoid claims about the imposition of “Sharia Law” on Americans?

Believe it or not, the absurdity is back — and it’s dumber than ever. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-10-14T18:43:42.658Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/sudden-republican-fixation-sharia-law-getting-increasingly-weird-rcna237580

A couple of months ago, Republican Rep. Josh Brecheen held a public event with voters in his Oklahoma district, and the congressman delivered a curious warning about Islamic law. “You’ve got Sharia law trying to be established in America today,” Brecheen declared.....

What I didn’t realize was just how many other Republican officials were thinking along the same lines.

As this week got underway, for example, Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama published an item via social media that read, “BAN SHARIA LAW. It has NO PLACE in America.”

Four days earlier, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also argued via social media, “Sharia law has no place in the USA and is incompatible with the Constitution.” The Republican governor’s missive appeared alongside a related item about a legislative effort in the Sunshine State to ban Sharia law.

Two weeks earlier, Republican Rep. Chip Roy, who’s currently running for state attorney general in Texas, argued during a Fox Business appearance, “I don’t think Texas should be subject to the advancement of Sharia.”.....

The fact that this anti-Sharia nonsense is apparently back suggests that the GOP’s existing list of boogeymen isn’t delivering the kind of results the party wants to see, so at least some Republicans are turning back the clock, pointing anew to an old threat that still does not exist.

[markodochartaigh]

1. More projection.

The Republicans absolutely support reich wing Christian law.

[Botany]

2. It doesn't matter that the imposing of Sharia law anywhere in America is never going to happen but ...

…. reality is that making shit up is standard operating procedure for the G.O.P.. Students going to school
as one sex and coming home as another sex, ANTIFA is real and a terrorist threat to America, a 78 year old
man gets a bullet wound to his ear that heals in under 2 weeks without leaving a scab or a scar, Russia
didn’t interfere with our elections, w bush kept us safe, John Kerry who was awarded a bronze star, silver
star, 3 Purple Hearts, and didn’t lose a single man on his swift boat was labeled as a coward by Karl Rove
and company, …

[Torchlight]

3. I thing radical christian clerics are a much more immediate threat

as well as a much greater force of corruption in contemporary politics. Sharia laws aren't banning books, classes, authors, protests, etc... that's all on the extremist American clergy.

[haele]

4. Levitican Law, Sharia Law - very small differences.

The primary difference is that Jesus was recognized as a Prophet in the Koran, and not in the Old Testament. Most of the other differences are pretty minor, and subject to local interpretation.

[Glorious bastard]

5. The fixation is not sudden. It goes back decades. And it is all based on utter and willful ignorance.

Ask any one of them to cite any of the most basic principles of Sharia law, and they will draw a blank.

And they are completely oblivious to the fact that what they are calling for is a blatant violation of the First Amendment.

[young_at_heart]

6. I wonder... what is the percentage of ignorance?

It's not a subject I ever thought about in years past. Now I am aware of its pervasiveness almost daily!

[usonian]

7. Every Accusation is a Confession

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Stephen Mullah



Artificial Image.
I tried. This was too much for my toolset.

[gulliver]

8. Why would we not join them in "banning boogeymen?"

Is Sharia Law a pressing threat to our democracy here? No. Should it be banned? Why not? If observing it is a cracked idea among one one-millionth of the population and is widely thought crackpot and radical by American Muslims and other Americans, why not ban it?

While we're at it, ban spider eggs in chewing gum. Ban asteroid collisions. There's no harm in banning a non-existent threat.

I think Sharia Law, seriously, would set up its adherents, if any, for catastrophic civil and criminal liabilities based on the good old Constitution of the United States. Somebody actually tries enforcing a "law" that's not on the books? Sue them and their organization into oblivion and lock them up! That's how you deal with vigilantes and fanatics who think they get to tell other people what to do in this country.

But if it helps the anxious Republicans to ban Sharia Law in addition to punishing it under existing law, so be it. We have elections to win. We can't have the Republicans gulling people into thinking we're "pro boogeyman."

[tanyev]

9. New talking point, same as the old talking point.