A US congressman, Barry Moore, has called for immigrants entering the country as religious workers to formally disavow Sharia law and pledge allegiance to the US Constitution.
Moore stated this in a post published on X on Wednesday while announcing the introduction of proposed legislation titled the “CRUSADE Act.”
Sharia law, which is based on Islamic religious precepts, is practiced in various ways in many Muslim-majority countries and communities around the world.
According to the senator, the bill was intended to ban the promotion of religious ideas that, in his opinion, contradict American constitutional norms.
“Sharia law justifies the persecution of religious minorities, restrictions on women, and the elevation of religious law above all. This is why I introduced the CRUSADE Act.
“Immigrants entering our nation as religious workers should disavow sharia and uphold the Constitution,” he added.
The First Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees religious freedom, yet federal laws and visa requirements oversee immigration policy involving religious workers.
A congressional hearing on the growing ‘Sharia-Free America’ movement has sparked heated debate across the United States about Islam and constitutional law.
The lawmakers contend that political Islam and Sharia law are fundamentally incompatible with the US Constitution and legal norms.
Earlier in the year, the United States began an assessment of Nigeria’s compliance with international religious freedom, owing to the mass persecution of Christians in the country.
The move followed Nigeria’s redesignation as a Country of Particular Concern by President Donald Trump, following what he termed persecution of Christians in the country.
This initiative was spearheaded by the United States’ representative for West Virginia’s 2nd congressional district, Riley Moore, and Chris Smith, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Africa Subcommittee.
Together, they presented the Nigeria Religious Freedom and Accountability Act of 2026, a bill intended to stop the religious persecution in the West African country.
The investigation body also made other ideas, including Riley Moore’s proposal for a US-Nigeria security cooperation “to protect vulnerable Christian communities and dismantle jihadist networks.”
Currently, Sharia and anti-blasphemy laws exist in up to 12 northern states.
“Blasphemy laws in Nigeria’s northern states are used to silence speech and dissent, target Christians and minorities, and justify so-called ‘convictions’ without due process,” the US lawmakers said.
