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Download official House Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. Self of Texas was recognized to address the House for 5 minutes.)
Mr. SELF. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address a growing threat to the rule of law in my State of Texas.
the Lone Star State, especially in north Texas, which I represent. Opaque sharia-compliant actions are advancing across our State and our Nation. We must be clear that America recognizes only one legal system: the Constitution and laws of the United States.
recently confronting this challenge. His actions regarding the proposed Texas American Muslim University and the planned Muslim-only event at a taxpayer-funded water park demonstrate the continuing vigilance required to protect our uniform system of justice.
to ban sharia. That was not a symbolic gesture. It was an overwhelming mandate. Texans declared decisively that no foreign legal framework shall influence, operate alongside, or supplant our State's judicial system. They expect their elected representatives to honor that vote.
Recent events in the United Kingdom offer a stark and tragic warning. A new independent report on grooming gangs has exposed decades of systematic child sexual exploitation, predominantly of young, White, British girls by groups of Pakistani Muslim men, with authorities repeatedly failing to act out of fear of being labeled racist.
institutions meant to protect them. We must not allow such horrors to take root here in America.
While Congress is acting—my bill, H.R. 6230, the Tehran Incitement to Violence Act, passed the House and is now pending in the Senate— Federal efforts alone are not enough. The primary responsibility for protecting our legal system from parallel frameworks rests on the shoulders of an informed citizenry, along with those of State and local leaders. Texans are leading the way, and others are beginning to follow.
in unison to stop a sharia city project backed by a Dubai-based development company.
one of their high school principals granted a group called Why Islam access to the campus to hand out Korans.
to Josephine City Hall, and stood in front of a crowded room to share her concerns about the proposed East Plano Islamic Center.
successfully put a stop to a sharia enclave after imploring their local leaders to just say no.
Even across the pond, citizens in the U.K. are beginning to push back against the cultural shift wreaking havoc in their community because of sharia's influence.
In America, belief is protected. Conduct under the law is not. Let me be clear: Sharia is a political-legal ideology, not a religion. Therefore, it should not fall under the First Amendment protection for faith and worship. The First Amendment safeguards an individual's right to believe and practice their religion, but it has never granted immunity to political systems, especially those that claim authority above the Constitution, which sharia does.
family law, criminal penalties, and public policy, sharia functions as an ideological legal code rather than a religious belief.
land. No ideological system, particularly sharia, religious in origin or otherwise, can override the liberties, equal protections, and democratic processes guaranteed to every American.
advancing commonsense measures, such as House Bill 495, which prohibits public institutions from accepting funds from foreign adversaries.
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Thomas Jefferson declared: “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” This eternal hostility must extend to any religious or foreign legal code, particularly sharia, that seeks to supplant American liberty and self-government.