The language of the Don't Sharia Our Texas priority passed by the RPT Legislative Priorities last week. I predict that when the delegate votes are counted, this will be an official priority of the RPT for 2026-27.
DON'T SHARIA OUR TEXAS
Texas government must stop Sharia Law by declaring that Sharia law is an incompatible, seditious, subversive, competing enemy of the Texas and U.S. Constitutions, and that its advocacy or implementation is a seditious criminal act, worthy of criminal punishment, disqualification for public, military, and law enforcement service, denaturalization, and, deportment. It should also be resisted in the following ways, including:
1. Immigration Reforms: Formally request that the Federal government denaturalize and/or deport advocates of Sharia law.
2. Taxpayer Funds May Not Be Granted: Taxpayer funds shall not be granted, contracted, disbursed, or otherwise provided to any entity or program that promotes or advocates allegiance to a foreign legal system, such as Sharia law, that conflicts with the Constitutions of Texas or the United States, nor shall Texas public schools and taxpayer funded institutions be allowed to provide meals or services in compliance with Sharia law.
3. Sharia Compliant Developments: Stop any economic or residential development that advocates the application of Sharia law and discriminates against those who do not submit to it.
4. Funding Prohibitions: Stop religious and/or educational institutions in Texas from receiving funding from hostile foreign or domestic sources that have any affiliation with any organization that advocates Sharia law or has been designated as a Foreign Terror Organization or Transnational Criminal Organization.
5. Enforce and Expand Our Laws: Enforce Texas sedition law against advocacy of Sharia law, and rigorously enforce other Texas law that criminalizes aspects of Sharia law such as terroristic threat,
female genital mutilation, animal cruelty, domestic violence, rape, polygamy, and pedophilia. Modify existing statutes to explicitly reference Sharia inclusion. Expand the jurisdiction of the OAG to
prosecute such law. Include elimination of taxpayer assistance to women who in reality are wives under Sharia law. Enact legislation to eliminate the fraud related to Sharia compliant financing.
6. Expand American Law For American Courts: Expand the legal applications of the American Law for American Courts. Pass (HB 45, 2017) and adopt a Texas Domestic Terrorist Organization Designation Act to define and prohibit domestic terrorists and sponsors of terror, and create a private civil cause of action allowing RICO provisions to be used by victims of terrorism.