AFN reported in February the newly-formed Sharia-Free America Caucus was promising to take action in Congress that would ban Sharia law in the United States.
Co-founded by two Texas lawmakers, Keith Self and Chip Roy, the caucus had grown to 30-plus members, representing 18 U.S. states, by February. It had climbed to 51 members, representing 22 states, by March.
A third Texas lawmaker, Rep. Brandon Gill, who had joined the caucus, told American Family Radio last month there are “core constitutional principles” that undergird Western civilization.
“We just don’t align with political Islam in these matters and many others. That’s what people are concerned with,” Gill explained at the time.
That AFR story published just two weeks before the U.S. launched Operation Epic Fury. That ongoing U.S.-Israel campaign is expected to weaken and even topple the crazed regime that has imprisoned 90 millions Iranians under Sharia law.
More recently, likely angered by that military attack, two terrorist attacks occurred in the U.S. just days apart.
In Michigan, Lebanese-born Ayman Mohammad Ghazali (pictured below), a U.S. citizen, drove a vehicle loaded with gasoline into Temple Israel, a major Reform synagogue.
In Virginia, university ROTC students were targeted by Sierra Leone-born Mohamed Bailor Jalloh. A naturalized U.S. citizen, he killed the ROTC leader and wounded two more before students killed him.
Jalloh had previously served an 11-year sentence for providing material support to the militant Islamic group ISIS.
In an interview about the caucus, AFR talk host Jenna Ellis told AFN she has interviewed Rep. Self about the caucus and its plans.
“He said that the caucus is looking at some legislation to ensure that, specifically, Sharia law cannot get a foothold,” she relayed.
That legislation is likely the Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act authored by Rep. Roy.
In light of the two recent terrorist attacks, Ellis said it’s naïve to believe terrorists are not living among us.
Their religious and political beliefs are not the same as ours, she said, but that difficult truth is not easily accepted by far-left liberals who are naïve about Sharia and Islam.
“There is a thinking that religious freedom means that we need to validate, not just tolerate, any worldview, and belief system and legal system, in this country,” Ellis warned.
'Enemy is inside the gates'
Ellis' warning was demonstrated last week by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the Alabama lawmaker. In an X post, the Alabama senator wrote "The enemy is inside the gates" in reference to New York City's communist, Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
Democrats melted down over Sen.Tuberville's online comment, calling him "Islamaphobic" and accusing him of hatred and racism.
Sen. Tuberville did not back down, however, even when a Politico article said he was suggesting Muslims are the enemy.
"To be clear, I didn't 'suggest' Islamists are the enemy. I said it plainly," he wrote.
In a second eye-opening example, conservative activist Kaitlin Bennett conducted one of her on-the-street interviews with liberals on the topic of radical Islam. Asked if they feel more comfortable with "radical Islamists" or "MAGA" Trump supporters, Bennett was repeatedly told Trump supporters are a bigger threat.
"What is it about Trump supporters you don't think you would get along with them?" Bennett asks one young woman.
"I'm gay," the woman answered.
"But you would get along with the radical Islamists?" Bennett, looking confused, pressed.
"Yes," the woman replied.
