Three more House Republicans have joined the newly organized Sharia-Free America Caucus in the lower chamber of Congress, bringing the total membership to 43 after a mere two months since the legislative group’s formation was announced by GOP Representatives Keith Self and Chip Roy of Texas.

Rep. Michael Rulli (R) of Ohio, Rep. August Pfluger (R) of Texas, and Rep. Buddy Carter (R) of Georgia are the latest additions to the caucus that was first made public on Christmas Day 2025. Twenty-four House Republicans joined the caucus within its first month of existence, and it has continued adding members throughout the month of February.

Asked by The Washington Stand if he expects more House Members to join the new caucus, Self said, “Oh, absolutely. I haven’t even made a complete pitch. I’ve tried a couple of times, but things intervened. Just with the Texas delegation, we’ve got 25 Republicans, so I absolutely expect it to grow.”

The caucus was formed in response to growing concerns in Congress and elsewhere about the recent surge in efforts by Muslim activists around the country to establish developments offered exclusively to followers of Islam and to replace America’s local, state, and federal laws with Sharia law.

Sharia law is the civil and religious commands prescribed by the Quran to regulate public and private life. Among much else, Sharia sanctions Muslim husbands treating wives as slaves, justifies Islamic men who rape non-Islamic women, requires the death penalty for those who identify as homosexual, death by stoning for adulterers, and forces non-Muslims to convert or face death by beheading.

“Under Sharia law, there is no freedom of speech, religion, or women’s rights. Europe should be a wake-up call to America, showing what the spread of Sharia law looks like. America’s immigration system must brace to take on this battle, not only to preserve our constitutional republic but to take charge in the spiritual warfare and defend our Judeo-Christian values,” Roy declared recently.

In recent years, the Lone Star State has become a focal point for the growing Muslim presence. Developers of a massive Muslim-only combined residential and commercial complex near Dallas, initially known as EPIC City, recently opted to change the project’s name to “The Meadows” following public backlash in response to reports that Sharia law would exclusively govern residents there.

When asked by TWS why he joined the caucus, Carter replied, “Sharia law is a direct threat to freedom and the American way of life. This radical, Third-World ideology is poisonous and has no place in the United States. If we import the Third World, we become the Third World. Immigrants who are welcomed into our country must assimilate, not bring their toxic and violent beliefs with them. Georgians want to preserve our nation’s values, not destroy them.”

Rep. Josh Brecheen (R) of Oklahoma, who was among the earliest members of the caucus, told TWS he joined because “we must not allow Oklahoma to be lulled to sleep by a people who, under the deceitful guise of peace and tolerance, have infiltrated our nation. Americans must be made aware that, in strict adherence to the Quran, its extremist followers are directed to kill all infidels and apostates, meaning anyone who doesn’t believe as they do. In tandem, extremist followers advocate for Sharia law to be implemented in our nation.”

Brecheen added that he is “grateful to the group of Oklahoma state lawmakers who are introducing bills to ban Sharia at the state level and to curb foreign influence in our state. For my part, I am committed to preventing Sharia from being spread in our federal jurisdictions, as this code of law is inherently at odds with the American way of life.”

Despite its short existence, the caucus has been unusually active since being announced. In addition to a February 5 news conference, Roy chaired a February 11 hearing of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government that heard from four witnesses explaining why “Political Islam and Sharia Law are Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution.”

One of the witnesses, Krista Shields, Texas State Director for the RAIR Foundation, told the hearing that the rapid growth today of efforts to establish Muslim-only communities in America, in which Sharia law takes precedence over every other legal system, is a direct result of planning by radical Islamic extremist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood. Shields cited two documents as being of particular importance.

“First, a document titled ‘Towards a Global Strategy for Islamic Policy,’ largely known as ‘The Project,’ was a 12-point master plan detailing the ‘westward expansion’ of the Muslim Brotherhood. The document was seized by Swiss authorities shortly after 9/11 as the ‘formalized output’ of a 1977 meeting of exiled Muslim Brotherhood leaders. The document details a strategy of ‘institutional action’ designed to ‘penetrate’ social services and ‘control’ local centers of power, explicitly rejecting assimilation in favor of a ‘parallel’ existence governed by an ‘Islamic Constitution’ and ‘Islamic laws.’”

The second document cited by Shield was the 1991 Explanatory Memorandum, which she told the subcommittee was “entered [as] evidence in U.S. federal courts, [and] declares their mission in America: ‘The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process.’… The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.’ Groups like ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and their many proxies — including those operating in America — aim to impose Sharia worldwide and establish a global Caliphate.”

Another witness — veteran Islamic terrorism expert Robert Spencer — explained to subcommittee members that “immigration to a new land to bring Sharia to it is also an Islamic imperative. The Quran promises a reward from Allah to those who ‘emigrate for the sake of Allah,’ which means for the purpose of bringing Sharia to a non-Muslim land. Thus, the conflict between Sharia and the U.S. Constitution will only grow as the Muslim population in the U.S. grows, for among that population will always be some Muslims who take these imperatives with the utmost seriousness.”

Rep. Mary Scanlon (D-Pa.), the subcommittee’s ranking member, dismissed the hearing, accusing Roy and other Republicans of “stoking fear and suspicion of fellow Americans or anyone else on the explicit basis of their religious beliefs” and described GOP warnings about the suppression by Sharia law of all other beliefs as merely “hysterical rhetoric.”