CPAC Strongly Condemns Sharia Law and Its Growing Influence in America and Around the World

Presented by Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss.

CPAC unequivocally condemns Sharia law as a barbaric, theocratic, and totalitarian system that is fundamentally incompatible with individual liberty and Western civilization. Sharia denies equal rights by prescribing cruel and unusual punishments, including stoning, amputation, and flogging, and seeks to replace secular democracy and constitutional governance with Islamic religious rule.

We are alarmed by its growing global influence and its creeping encroachments around the world, including in the West. Their tactics include parallel legal institutions, cultural demands, foreign law in national courts, Sharia-compliant finance, and unchecked immigration from Sharia-adherent societies. Most disturbingly, segments of the political left, and even some establishment figures, have excused, downplayed, or embraced Sharia under the banners of multiculturalism, diversity, and false claims of “Islamophobia.” This hypocrisy betrays core conservative values, endangers free speech, women’s rights, and religious liberty, and labels legitimate national security concerns as bigotry.

As we meet in Texas, we acknowledge that the Lone Star State has become the frontline defense against this threat. In the March 2026 GOP primary, Texas voters delivered an overwhelming mandate by approving Proposition 10 with nearly 95% support, declaring that “Texas should prohibit Sharia law.” We warn that if incremental Sharia influence, through proposed enclaves, special accommodations, radical networks, or “boiling the frog” tactics, is allowed to take hold in Texas, the entire nation will soon be at risk.

CPAC stands firmly and unapologetically against any imposition of Sharia law in freedom-loving countries.