The claim that Sharia is taking over America moved through Congress, two state houses, two attorneys general, and a primary ballot in five months.
On February 10 a House Judiciary subcommittee held a hearing called “Sharia-Free America,” where Rep. Chip Roy said “they want America to become Islamic!” Two days later Sens. Cornyn and Tuberville introduced the Defeat Sharia Law in America Act, with Tuberville calling Sharia “not a religion; it is a death cult.” On March 3, Texas Republican primary voters passed Proposition 10, banning Sharia, with 94.81 percent in favor. Through March and April, Texas AG Ken Paxton pursued a Muslim-centered housing development and moved against a Dallas religious mediation body. On April 7 Gov. DeSantis signed a Florida law barring courts from applying religious law. A second House hearing followed in May. In June the Arizona legislature passed its own bill and the governor vetoed it, saying the thing it banned was already illegal.
American courts don't apply Sharia and can't. Religious arbitration exists for every faith, is voluntary, and is bounded by the same law everyone else lives under. Arizona’s governor said the quiet part in her veto: the bills ban something already banned.
That's what makes this the most consequential item of the half-year rather than the loudest. The claim didn't need to be true to move a hearing, a bill, a law, a ballot proposition, and two attorneys general. A sitting senator describing a body of religious law as a death cult is the same sentence a fringe account would write, said from a seat with subpoena power.
We score institutional actions separately from what accounts say, because an agency acting is a different kind of fact than a post. This one cluster is why the most severe material in the whole half-year came from institutions rather than from anywhere on the internet.
The receipts
Every quote checked against its source. Anything we could not get verbatim is marked as our summary rather than set in quotation marks.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville
"Sharia Law is not a religion; it is a death cult and has no place in this country."
From the senators’ own press release announcing the bill.
Rep. Chip Roy, chairing the hearing
"They want America to become Islamic!"
House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, “Sharia-Free America.”
Texas Republican primary, Proposition 10
"Should Texas prohibit Sharia law?"
Passed with 94.81 percent support and named a 2027 legislative priority.
Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona, vetoing SB 1018
Hobbs vetoed the bill on the grounds that Sharia was already barred under existing statute, and that the bill was unconstitutional and would be costly to defend.
Our summary of the reporting. We do not have the veto message verbatim. The bill passed along party lines.
One of 59 confirmed items from a six-month pass across 925 accounts, plus the legislatures, courts, and agencies around them. Nine of the 59 are on this site, picked on a stated rule rather than by feel. The rest are in the full report.
Religious hate across 925 accounts
The full six-month pass across three lanes, with per-narrative scoring and the roster hit rates. This page is the plain-language cut; that one is the whole thing, including the hate methodology that defines every score here.