Congressman Keith Self

The United States Constitution and Sharia are fundamentally at odds with one another.

Yeah, that's right.

It extends from McKinney all the way over to Commerce, so we've got the bulk of Collin and Hunt Counties.

Because our very foundation of our ideas of government, which are codified in the US Constitution, are the individual freedom, individual rights, as declared in the Bill of Rights.

So we believe in the individual, the collective ideas of every individual.

The matters of conscience belong to individuals, not to government.

Sharia is anathema to that.

Sharia tells you you will submit to Sharia law, most people say, but it's a complete culture.

It's a complete civilization that you will submit to.

And they intend to dominate, and they dominate cultures that they go into.

Gradually and then suddenly, they dominate cultures.

That's what we cannot allow to happen because it is fundamentally anathema, opposed to the U.S.

Constitution and our ideas of individual rights.

Well, it goes further than just Afghanistan and Iraq.

I was in the embassy in Cairo, Egypt, in the days where women walking around Cairo, very few had on burqas, the hajib.

And then I was stationed, or I worked with the IDF in the conflict between Israel and the proxies surrounding it.

Then I was in Afghanistan with the J-5 of the Central Command in the early days when the ground command was still in attempt.

Even in those early days, it was obvious that Afghanistan was a matter of tribes.

It was not a society, and it was ruled by Sharia.

Very strict Sharia.