Creating a federal task force to exclusively enforce the Islamic Sharia law edict that prohibits truthful criticism of Islam would violate the First Amendment, Establishment Clause and equal protection of the law.

No one religion should be given special treatment by government tasking a special squad to enforce the religious laws of that one religion to censor truthful criticism.

The lack of definition for “Islamophobia” and “combating” makes this legislation very dangerous to the rights of all Americans except for Islamists. 

Tragically, the Combating International Islamophobia Act only protects Islam, the religion most noted for acts of violence worldwide, while ignoring the fact that Jews are the largest target of hate crimes in the United States.   The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2020 hate crime statistics reports that crimes targeting Jews comprised 54.9% of all religious bias crimes last year.   Additionally, 34 of the top 50 countries in which persecution of Christians has been documented to be the worst are Islamic.    Followers of Sharia law and Islamic fatwas commit more violent acts of hate than any other religion. Thereligionofpeace.com documents that “Islamic Terrorists have carried out more than 41,770 deadly terror attacks since 9/11.”  

Hypocritically, the Combating International Islamophobia Act is sponsored by the most notable anti-Semite in congress, Ilhan Omar.  More hypocrisy, the Council on American Islamic Relations, the organization sponsoring the Combating International Islamophobia Act, was added to the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s ‘Global Anti-Semitism’ List on December 27, 2021.   

So Americans are faced with the most notable anti-Semite in congress and anti-Semitic CAIR wanting legislation to “combat” “Islamophobia” to protect Islamists from criticism.

Many people and organizations, including other religions, rightfully educate others and express concern regarding the barbarism, inhumanity, incivility and violence associated with certain edicts and fatwas of Islam.  

I urge you to reject the Combating International Islamophobia Act S3384.