America was not founded as a blank slate for every legal system the world has ever known. It was founded on a revolutionary idea that our rights come from God, not government, and that law exists to protect liberty, not replace it.
That is why Sharia law is incompatible with American culture, American standards, and the constitutional order of the United States.
When I stood at the podium for the first-ever press conference of the Sharia Free America Caucus, I did so with clarity and conviction. The message was simple and firm – America will not allow any legal system to take root that conflicts with the standards that define us as a nation.
Sharia law is not merely a private religious tradition, it is a governing system that seeks authority over courts, conduct, and public life. America already has a legal framework - one shaped by centuries of Christian moral teaching, English common law, and constitutional restraint. Sharia law rejects that framework and replaces it with a fundamentally different vision of justice.
American law and Christianity treat men and women as equals. Sharia law does not. American law protects the right to exercise and change one’s beliefs without punishment. Sharia law criminalizes those who renounce it. American law is debated, amended, and accountable to the people. Sharia law claims divine finality beyond challenge or appeal. These are direct conflicts with the standards that hold American society together.
Christianity shaped this nation’s understanding of right and wrong, of justice and mercy, of human dignity rooted in the image of God. Christian influence in America elevated moral truth without forcing citizens to submit to religious courts or clerical rule. Our system reflects biblical principles while preserving ordered liberty. Sharia law does the opposite - it enforces theology through legal coercion.
The Founders never intended America to be governed by competing legal systems. A nation cannot survive when its laws are fragmented, its standards divided, and its courts pressured to recognize foreign theocratic codes. One Constitution must govern one people.
We must be clear that Sharia law has no place in a nation built on Christian moral foundations, constitutional rights, and the rule of law. That’s why I co-sponsored the No Sharia Act to preserve our constitutional and God-given rights.
To allow otherwise would be to abandon the foundation of America.
Congressman Barry Moore is the U.S. Representative for AL-01 and lives in Enterprise, Alabama with his family. He serves on the House Judiciary Committee and House Agriculture Committee in Congress.
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