[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 116 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. CON. RES. 116
Denouncing Sharia law in the United States.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 3, 2026
Mr. Self (for himself, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Carter of
Georgia, Mr. Crane, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Van Orden, Mr. Brecheen, Mr. Moore
of Alabama, and Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania) submitted the following
concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary
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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Denouncing Sharia law in the United States.
Whereas the primary role of elected officials in the United States of America is
to provide for the security and protections of its citizens as well as
preserving the liberties provided to them by the Nation's Founders;
Whereas the Constitution of the United States of America and the laws made
pursuant thereto are the supreme law of the United States of America;
Whereas any legal or political doctrine that places itself above the
Constitution threatens the stability and unity of the Nation;
Whereas, to preserve Western values and the American social compact, the Nation
must insist on assimilation into the constitutional order;
Whereas the people of the United States of America desire to preserve the
blessings of liberty and the rule of law for themselves and their
posterity and ensure that no foreign legal or political systems in
conflict or incompatible with the Nation's laws, traditions, and
individual liberties are applied in the United States;
Whereas Sharia law presents as religious while functioning as a political and
legal order;
Whereas Islamic jurisprudence (Sharia) has functioned not merely as a religious
liturgy, but also as a comprehensive political, legal, social, and
economic system, deriving from primary Islamic texts, the Quran and
Hadith, as well as jurisprudential sources such as consensus (ijma`) and
analogical reasoning (qiyas), where these sources collectively produce
fiqh, the interpretive body of Islamic jurisprudence;
Whereas Sharia touches every aspect of life including criminal, civil, and
commercial law, economic regulation, fiscal obligations, social conduct,
public order, political authority, and governance structures;
Whereas, while the Constitution guarantees equal rights, due process, and
individual autonomy, Sharia assigns legal distinctions among individuals
and bases authority on religious mandates;
Whereas Sharia does not recognize the right to life as evidenced by threatening
death for apostasy, which Sharia law defines as not being fully Muslim,
along with threatening death for blasphemy, which they define as saying
anything negative about Mohammed or Islam;
Whereas Sharia does not recognize the right to liberty as evidenced by forcing
submission to Allah over individual autonomy; restricting religious
freedom and free speech; no respect for gender equality concerning the
rights of women, those who live unapproved lifestyles, and the lengthy
list of characteristics for which United States law does not permit
discrimination; and restrictions on those under Sharia, including diet
and social activities;
Whereas the supremacy claims of Sharia have proven to put women, dissidents, and
non-Muslims into danger from the consequences resulting from Sharia's
unequal legal standards and community-enforced norms, exposing
individuals to pressures that undermine the safety and rights guaranteed
in the Constitution;
Whereas, under Sharia, women are treated as subservient to men with half the
testimonial value and receiving half the inheritance, often requiring
permission for the choices they make;
Whereas an estimated 230,000,000 girls and women worldwide have undergone female
genital mutilation, with the highest incidents in Muslim-majority
nations of parts of Africa, the Middle East and South Asia;
Whereas modern political science research demonstrates that Sharia operates as a
political system in states that incorporate it into their constitutional
or statutory law;
Whereas, in Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey, portions of the principles of
Sharia have been put into the government's legal code, and has been
shown to have profound governance implications as it shapes legislative
authority and lawmaking processes, influences judicial organization and
legal interpretation, and generates hybrid legal regimes that navigate
between doctrinal consistency and pluralistic rights frameworks;
Whereas Islam has grown through conquering and forced conversion;
Whereas, in 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams asked the Ambassador from
Tripoli why his nation attacked peaceful countries with no provocation
and he replied that it was their right and duty under their laws of the
prophet and the Quran to make war on all who do not acknowledge Islamic
authority to enslave prisoners, and that every fighter slain would go to
paradise;
Whereas Sharia is incompatible with American values, equally, American values
are incompatible with the principles held under Sharia;
Whereas America's way of life is not threatened by a religion, rather, it is
threatened by those claiming a body of law that asserts jurisdiction
over non-Muslims that is explicitly antithetical to the United States
Constitution and democratic principles;
Whereas, on August 26, 2026, President Donald Trump acknowledged Sharia Law is
being implemented in the United States and supports its prohibition; and
Whereas Sharia law is in direct conflict with the Constitution of the United
States: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),
That Congress denounces Sharia law in all forms, and opposes any
implementation of Sharia law within the United States.
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