Sharia-Free Comments Spur Outcry at Texas GOP Convention
18th June 2026
At least four Muslim members of the Texas Republican Party shared their experience at the state’s Republican convention over remarks they described as Islamophobic.
Nobody worries about ‘Nazi-phobic’ or ‘Communist-phobic’, so why the uproar about ‘Islamophobic’? A phobia is an irrational fear, and a fear of Islam, like a fear of Nazis or a fear of Communists, is entirely rational, as history plainly demonstrates.
“When they say Sharia-free, that means Muslim-free, no practices of Islam,” Mohamed Hussein, an attendee, told The Texas Tribune. “No one is calling for the state to implement Sharia laws.”
Of course not—Muslims know that would not be well received (although they do it in Europe, and I suspect it’s only a matter of time and increased Muslim population growth before it happens here). What ‘sharia-free’ means is the elimination of the stealthy growtho of sharia-law in parallel with normal American law, as is currently happening in the UK. Muslims set up their own sharia-law tribunals and pressure all Muslims to use them in place of the existing legal structure. (Orthodox Jews have done the same thing; it’s not unusual for tribal peoples living in non-tribal societies.)
Hussein said he was in disbelief that he was told to convert or leave—for the first time in his life.
But that’s exactly the choice that Islam gives to non-Muslims. Convert or go away (Actually, historically it was convert or die, but they can’t get away with that in the modern world). If you’re a Christian or a Jew, you get a third choice: Become a dhimmi, which is kind of like being a Negro in the Democrat South.