Islamic influence continues to expand in the United States. Adam Hamawy, an Egyptian Muslim, won the House primary in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District. In the past Hamawy, not only accompanied Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the ‘Blind Sheikh’ linked to the World Trade Center terror attacks, he also volunteered for an Al Qaeda-linked group. A newly formed pro-Palestinian political action committee spent more than $1.5 million to boost his candidacy.
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Then there is niqab-clad Lakeshia M. Alston, who has snagged the Republican nomination for North Carolina State Senate District 22.
Indeed, Election Jihad is on the rise in America. This 2024 article documents the growth of Islamist political power. In 2020, CAIR released a “Strategic Election Plan” for mobilizing one million Muslim voters. Consider that Nihad Awad is one of the featured speakers at CAIR events. CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood money run thousands of Muslim candidates in the U.S.
In 2025, 42 Muslim Americans were elected to public office across the U.S. in the off-year elections.
In 2019, U.S. congressman Andre Carson, a Muslim convert, highlighted the role of Muslims elected to the U.S. Congress.
“It’s more than just about having three Muslims in Congress… but I won’t rest until 2020 [when] we have five more members of Congress; 2022 and 24, we have ten more Muslims in Congress. In 2030 we may have about 30, 35 Muslims in Congress.
Each and every one of us has a directive to represent Islam, [emphasis mine]… to represent Islam and let the world know that Muslims are here to stay, and Muslims are a part of America. And we will, we will have a Muslim caucus that is sizable, that is formidable, and that is there for you.
Stephen M. Kirby, Ph.D. unpacked the ramifications of the above quotation in his booklet titled “ In the book’s preface, Clare Lopez, Vice President for Research and Analysis at the Center for Security Policy, writes:
“Increasing numbers of Muslim candidates for office are entering the U.S. political system at every level from local to state and federal; and, while we applaud civic engagement by all citizens in our democratic system, we also are mindful that Islam is a faith like none other in the obligation levied on its followers to place Islamic Law (shariah) above any other law, including the U.S. Constitution [emphasis mine].
“Such declarations set up a direct challenge to Article VI Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution, to which each and every Member of Congress, House and Senate, is pledged under oath to uphold.
Hence, “…it becomes possible to assess Islam and statements of loyalty to it by
Indeed, “Dr. Kirby has elucidated the very direct conflicts between Islamic Law and the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 8th, 13th, and 14th Amendments to the Constitution.
The obvious dichotomy between the Constitution and Sharia law begets a logical question.
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Aren’t all members of Congress obligated to swear or affirm an oath to support the Constitution (Article 6, Clause 3)? So, how could a Muslim official take such an oath and yet remain true to both his faith and the Constitution he has pledged to uphold?
“Dr. Kirby turns next to a brief review of what Islamic doctrine in fact consists, including the actual obligation… to lie to infidels (non-believers in Islam) under certain circumstances. Critically, he notes that there is no such concept as individual liberty, right to government by consent of the governed, or equality before the rule of man-made law under Islam.
Consequently,
“The glaring incompatibility of shariah with the Supreme Law of the Land in this country is obvious and perhaps shocking for some who may not have considered it before.
In fact, Kirby set out to determine which Muslim public officials and candidates (over 200) would express support for the Constitution over Islamic doctrine. He inquired whether these Muslim officials would:
- Condemn anyone who threatens death or physical harm to another person who is exercising the First Amendment right to criticize or disagree with the prophet Mohammad?
- Go on record and state that in the United States, a Muslim has not only the freedom to leave Islam, but to do so without fear of physical harm, and also go on record to condemn anyone who threatens physical harm to a Muslim who is exercising that freedom?
- Agree with Allah and your prophet Muhammad that amputation of a hand is an acceptable punishment for theft in the United States, or do you believe that our man-made laws prohibiting such punishments are true laws and are to be followed instead of this 7th-century command of Allah and teaching of Muhammad?
- Agree with Allah that it is legal for a Muslim man in the United States to be married to more than one woman, or that our man-made laws prohibiting bigamy are true laws and are to be followed instead of this 7th-century command of Allah?
The results are alarming, as the list of those who expressed support for the Constitution is considerably smaller when contrasted against those who would not express support for the Constitution.
In 2020, “it would appear that 93% of the Muslim public officials Kirby contacted gave more credence to Islamic doctrine than the United States Constitution and their oath of office.”
As of May 5, 2026, seventeen Muslim officials expressed support for the Constitution, while 250 would not express support for the Constitution.
One puzzling piece in all this is the reaction by Dr. Zudhi Jasser, who is running for office in Arizona. In this interview, he explains that he is “an American who happens to be Muslim, that [his] faith identity is important for [his] relationship with God, but [his] community identity is primarily related to being an American and having a faith and loyalty to the U.S. Constitution and our system of government.” On the other hand, he has twice refused to support the Constitution as per the Kirby questions above.
In 2019, Andre Carson asserted that in time Americans would see “Madame Chair Rashida… Madame Chair Ilhan. Hell, we could be saying Speaker of the House Ilhan, Speaker of the House Rashida, Senator Rashida, Governor Ilhan, President Fatima, Vice President Aziza, Inshah’ Allah.”
These people mean business. And, I fear, that virtue-signaling faux feminists, as well as naïve and uninformed Americans, are surrendering to a system that is hell-bent on the destruction of this country and our freedoms.
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