{"id":68633,"date":"2026-03-10T15:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/mike-johnson-warns-sharia-law-serious-problem-after-gop-reps-anti-muslim-post\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:45:35","slug":"mike-johnson-warns-sharia-law-serious-problem-after-gop-reps-anti-muslim-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/mike-johnson-warns-sharia-law-serious-problem-after-gop-reps-anti-muslim-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson warns Sharia law ‘serious problem’ after GOP rep’s anti-Muslim post"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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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

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

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

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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., 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. “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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}