{"id":3428,"date":"2026-03-11T00:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/3428\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T00:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:36:09","slug":"speaker-mike-johnson-warns-sharia-law-threat-in-america-is-a-serious-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/3428\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Mike Johnson warns Sharia law threat in America is a ‘serious problem’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.,<\/a> is sounding alarms about the threat of Sharia law in the U.S., warning that it is in direct conflict with the tenets the U.S. was founded on.<\/p>\n

“There’s a lot of energy in the country and a lot of popular sentiment that the demand to impose Sharia law in America is a serious problem,” Johnson told reporters at a news conference at House Republicans’ annual policy retreat in Miami.<\/p>\n

“I think that that’s a serious issue. Sharia law and the imposition of Sharia law is contrary to the U.S. Constitution.”<\/p>\n

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 10, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

He was answering a question regarding the budding backlash against Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., who posted on X, “Muslims don’t belong in American society.”<\/p>\n

The post was immediately attacked by Democrats as racist and bigoted, with some, including Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., demanding that Johnson “speak out against this hate.”<\/p>\n

Ogles, for his part, was unrepentant. He followed his post with another that said, “My comments wouldn\u2019t even be a news story if I had said this about Christians. Please spare me your moral outrage. Cry harder.”<\/p>\n

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Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., arrives at the U.S. Capitol April 10, 2025. (Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Johnson said Ogles’ comments were “different language than I would use” but suggested he believed the Tennessee Republican<\/a> was referring to immigrants who refuse to adapt to U.S. culture and values.<\/p>\n

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“When you seek to come to a country and not assimilate, but to impose Sharia law \u2014 Sharia law is in conflict with the U.S. Constitution. That is the conflict that people are talking about,” Johnson said.<\/p>\n

“It is not about people as Muslims. It’s about those who seek to impose a different belief system<\/a> that is in direct conflict with the Constitution. That’s where I think that comes from.”<\/p>\n

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A view of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Nov. 4, 2024. (Nicolas Economou\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Conservatives in Congress have grown more vocal about the threat of Sharia law in recent months, with representatives Keith Self, R-Texas, and Chip Roy, R-Texas, even moving to form a “Sharia-free America Caucus.”<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sharia broadly refers to a code of ethics and conduct used by devout Muslims. Sharia law more specifically often refers to the criminal code used in non-secular Islamic countries, like Iran.<\/p>\n

In its most extreme cases, such as when ISIS controlled parts of the Middle East, charges like blasphemy could carry the death penalty. But guarantees of religious freedom<\/a> in the Constitution mean that Sharia law cannot be carried out on any governmental level in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.<\/p>\n

Follow on Twitter at @liz_elkind and send tips to elizabeth.elkind@fox.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is sounding alarms about the threat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2973,8,2972,961,141,9,67,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-3428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-constitution","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-house-of-representatives-politics","11":"tag-islam","12":"tag-mike-johnson","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116207745926254896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}