Sharia Law and America

There is an undeniable and growing push to infiltrate America’s legal and political institutions with Sharia law, a foreign, theocratic system that stands in direct opposition to the Constitution.¹ This isn’t about private belief or worship; it’s an effort to supplant the rule of law with a doctrine incompatible with the rights and freedoms secured by our republic.² America was founded on immutable principles rooted in natural law and Christian moral order.³ The Constitution’s sole and only legitimate purpose is to secure the rights of the people under a republican form of government.⁴ Any attempt to impose Sharia law, whether in courts, legislation, or public office, isn’t diversity or tolerance. It’s treason and it must be confronted as such, with clarity, courage, and constitutional fidelity.

Jefferson, the Barbary Pirates, and Islam

Thomas Jefferson had already identified the dangers posed by an uncompromising foreign legal system cloaked in religious authority: Islam under Sharia law. As America’s envoy to France in the 1780s, Jefferson confronted the Barbary pirates, Muslim states engaged in piracy, slavery, and extortion under Islamic law.⁷ In his correspondence with John Adams in 1786, Jefferson documented that the Barbary ambassador justified these attacks by citing the Quran itself, claiming it was their duty under Islamic law to make war upon non-Muslims.

The Quran states in Surah At-Tawbah 9:29: ”Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day… until they pay the jizyah with willing submission and feel themselves subdued. This command formed the legal basis for the Barbary states’ piracy and enslavement of Americans.

Jefferson recognized that Sharia law fused religious command with civil authority, creating a system inherently incompatible with liberty, natural law, and individual rights. His determination to confront the Barbary powers was a defense of a legal order rooted in reason, natural rights, and Christian moral law. The Founders embedded these warnings into the Constitution’s guarantee of a republican form of government, ensuring no foreign, theocratic legal system could lawfully take root on American soil.

Article IV  Relationships Between the States

• Section 4 Republican Form of Government

  The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

  
  

The Guarantee of a Republican Form of Government

Jefferson’s warnings were enshrined in Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution: ”The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” A republican form of government is not merely a structure; it is a guarantee of government rooted in the rule of law, equality before the law, protection of inherent rights, and the absence of arbitrary or theocratic rule.

By guaranteeing a republican form of government, the Constitution bars any attempt, whether by legislation, judicial activism, or public officeholders, to impose a system like Sharia law, which substitutes divine command for natural rights, denies equality, and mandates submission. Consider the 2010 case S.D. v. M.J.R. in New Jersey, where a judge initially refused a restraining order against a Muslim husband accused of marital rape, citing his religious beliefs under Sharia. Only an appellate reversal protected the wife’s constitutional rights. This case reveals the danger of allowing Sharia principles to influence American courts.

Christianity as the Root of American Law

The Founders framed a nation built upon Christian moral order, rooted in divine law and natural law as revealed through Scripture. The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 declared: ”The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality.” The Virginia Declaration of Rights asserted: ”It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.”²⁰ These were not generic references to morality, they were affirmations of Christianity as the moral bedrock of law and governance.

Maxims of law affirm: ”Christianity is parcel of the common law.” The Founders did not intend for competing religious systems to stand equal before the law. Islam, with its fusion of religious and civil law under Sharia, stands in direct contradiction to the Christian moral order at the heart of American law.

Core Principles of Sharia Law Incompatible with the Constitution

Under Sharia law:

• Freedom of religion is denied. Apostasy from Islam is punishable by death, violating the First Amendment.

• Freedom of speech is forbidden. Criticism of Islam or Muhammad is blasphemy punishable by imprisonment or death.

• Equality before the law is rejected. Sharia assigns inferior legal status to non-Muslims and women, violating the Fourteenth Amendment.

• Supremacy of religious law over civil law is enforced. Sharia holds divine law supersedes human or constitutional law.

  
  

This is not theory. It is codified in Sharia jurisprudence and practiced in Islamic states today. Anyone claiming such a system can coexist with the Constitution is either lying or gravely mistaken.

For the Intellectually Challenged, Here’s What This Really Means

If you’re a homosexual under Sharia, you could be thrown off a building. If you’re a woman, you have no legal standing apart from a male guardian. If you leave Islam, you can be sentenced to death for apostasy. If you criticize Muhammad, you can be punished for blasphemy. And under taqiyya, Islamic doctrine permitting deception toward non-Muslims, a devout Muslim may lie to an infidel if it serves Islam’s interest.

Look at the United Kingdom today: citizens arrested for social media posts deemed offensive to Islamic sensibilities. People jailed for speech. That is not freedom. That is the fruit of tolerating a foreign legal system incompatible with liberty.

Holding Office and Divided Loyalties

Article VI of the Constitution requires all officers to swear an oath to support the Constitution. That oath leaves no room for dual allegiance. Yet public officials sit in office while adhering to legal systems fundamentally hostile to the Constitution. Whether by advancing Sharia law or enforcing unconstitutional administrative law, these are acts of divided loyalty.⁴⁰ As Scripture reminds: “No man can serve two masters.” (Matthew 6:24).

Defining Treason and Maladministration

The Virginia Declaration of Rights, Section 3, declares government is instituted for the benefit and protection of the people, and warns of ”the dangers of maladministration.” Maladministration is not mere incompetence; it is betrayal of government’s legitimate end. When officials undermine constitutional order, they commit maladministration. When such acts rise to subverting the republic or advancing foreign law, they cross into treason.

Treason exists on multiple levels:

Treason against the state: violating state constitutional guarantees.

Treason against the federal government: undermining constitutional supremacy.

Treason against the sovereignty of the people: betraying the oath to uphold the Constitution.

And the punishment for such, under Article IV, Section 4, and Amendment XIV, Sections 3 and 4, is immediate removal from office.

Conclusion: A Line in the Sand

We do not need to speculate about the consequences. Look at the UK, where citizens are jailed for speech, neighborhoods governed by Sharia, and mobs proclaiming: “Every part of this land will belong to Islam.”

This is Jefferson’s prophecy fulfilled before our eyes. Those who seek to impose Sharia law here are saying the quiet part out loud. Therefore: there is no middle ground. You stand against the Constitution or with it. Silence is consent. Indifference is complicity.

Let it be declared: those advancing this betrayal from within are domestic enemies of the Constitution. Those advancing it from without are foreign enemies and terrorists.

To ignore this threat is treason. To refuse to speak is to aid the enemy. To abdicate the duty to preserve the republic is to forfeit liberty for ourselves and our posterity. Therefore, let every man and woman of conscience rise and reclaim their rightful authority as the sovereign People, under God, to secure the blessings of liberty, the rule of law, and the republican form of government guaranteed by the Constitution.