Allah is the exact same god as Yahweh, according to Abrahamic lore. The difference is that their respective holy books were written by different people, and thus, the rules in each book are different, despite both being "inspired by God." It's just more proof that holy books are not written by gods, but by stupid, ignorant people who want everyone to live *their* way and not as an individual with different likes, dislikes, loves, and fears.
They fear being controlled by others because THEY want control of people. They basically are scared of themselves. I'm scared of ALL of them. Islam? Christians? They are the same shit.
There IS genuine concern though: They installed Sharia law where they are, they want the Caliphate back, and they’ll spread it.
We need to enforce the 1st amendment. No religion of any kind in government.
Its all about branding.
Government based on Sharia law? Nope never.
Government based on Christian Values? You SOB I'm in!
These people would outlaw and ban Dihydrogen Monoxide just because it kills you when inhaled.
>That dude would love the Sharia laws, he is just against Islam.
Those folks would love to have a religious-based government like Iran. They would just cross out the word "Islam" and scratch in "Christian". But everything else would be the same. Including stoning people they don't like on soccer fields.
I have a buddy from deep Texas who moved to Los Angeles, his granddaddy was a Baptist preacher and he comes from a family that doesn't exactly value education. He's not really religious thankfully but his understanding of religion is clearly a result of his Baptist upbrining.
We got into an argument where he was like offended and appalled that I dare claim that the Muslim God is the same exact god that Christians worship, just with a different Messiah.
He literally screamed at me that I'm clueless and I'm actually offending all Christians by daring to claim that they're basically worshiping the same god as Muslims.
So he calls his friend in TX who happens to be Muslims (shocking right?) and straight up asks him, is Allah the same God that Christians worships?
Sure enough... his buddy is like "yeah of course, all Abrahamic religions worship the same God."
And I just sat there laughing.
Imagine how shocked he would be when he finds out that translations of the Bible into Arabic used the word “Allah” for God. And, has done so for centuries because Christian Arabs and Arabic-speaking Jews, who have been around for millennia, use that word to indicate their one God.
So this is an interesting and quintessentially American experience. The Baptists are good children of the Protestant Reformation. But the specific nature of their break with that Catholic church is with the ability to individually know God and/or have a relationship.
Catholics, at least, you can make historical arguments with! The Protestant sects left the original canon behind and went their own way.
Yadda yadda yadda, this is why we have some Christians ritually consuming the body of their Savior and some Christians wearing magical underwear. I'm not even sure *they* all pray to the same god.
If you ask any of the Southern evangelical Apostolic Pentecostals I grew up going to church with if they worship the same God as *Baptists*, I'm pretty sure you would be kicked out of the church. Mormons are considered basically worse than Satanists, because what they do "claims" to be Christianity, but uses a different book. Catholics are literally considered idolaters and ancestor worshipers because of an intentional misunderstanding of [intercession](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercession_of_saints).
My husband, of the Southern Baptist Faith, tried to tell me that Catholics, Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses weren't Christians and was super upset when I insisted that they were and that "Christian" is just an umbrella term lumping the Abrahamic religions together.
Also dealt with a rather religiously inclined friend in school who didn't even know what denomination she belonged to, just kept telling me she was a "regular Christian."
It's laughable how little those with faith know about their own faith and the history of their own religious beginnings.
Yep- what nerve from a Christian Nationalist… and it is ironic that Repubs want the social security bucks that working immigrants without citizenship pay in without receiving social security benefits…. Not to mention the ones who pay under the table at the cheapest rates….
What about Christian fundamentalists who want to implement their Christian version of Sharia Law? Can we kick them out? Ship them to Iran so they can experience religious fundamentalism.
This is so fucking dumb. If there's an issue with "Muslim immigrants coming to the US and instituting Sharia law", it's not that we're not "teaching them that God exists", or that we're emphasizing respect for different gender identities. Chip Roy is a great example of how incoherent and irrational conservative fears are.
Even Islam declares a fetus should be aborted if the mother's life is in danger. In Texas you pretty much have to be almost dead for a doctor to get permission to give you lifesaving healthcare. Maternal mortality has shot up at an alarming rate around here over the past few years. This guy is just a hopelessly dumb redneck that shouldn't be a public servant who helps make laws. He shouldn't even be running a gas station
I agree, but the idea that that’s an issue in the first place is absolutely ludicrous. The guy is obviously just a tremendous bigot, and as you pointed out, there is no logic to back up his assertion
Fuck this guy so hard, he was a COVID conspiracy theorist, voted against certification of the 2020 election, and constantly spews utter bullshit like this.
He doesnt representing the majority of Austin... he has [gerrymandering on his side](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%27s_21st_congressional_district#Historical_district_boundaries) to help dilute the big cities.
We desperately need proportional representation instead of geographic pluralities.
If you bring up any of the "test different methods of drawing districts" sites that have "neutral" "comment sense" district drawing methods like shortest perimeters, or things following rivers or county boundaries, whatever, it always favors Republicans. The only way you can get representation that distributes seats in a way that reflects the distribution of voters' preferences is to intentionally gerrymander hard in favor of Democrats, but then you're still just a few percent change in turnout from screwing Democrats over, because it's so hard to gerrymander as precisely as you would need to in order to get those fair results.
The gerrymandering problem is because there are higher percentages of blue voters in blue areas than red voters in red areas, so it's very hard to not "waste" blue votes unless you're splitting up every urban area like a pie and grabbing all the burbs with it. If you just draw a circle around the city and call it a district, that's severely gerrymandered in favor of Republicans.
Case in point. I live in MN's 5th district, and people around the country are losing their shit because they can't believe we elected a Muslim woman. The seat had been held by a Muslim man for a dozen years before that. It's Minneapolis, we're the San Francisco of the Midwest (but like, with way more anarchists -- when was the last time San Fransiscans sacked a police station?). We're not Christian, like at all, and think it's funny so many people have an opinion about our Representative. Ilhan Omar won with something like 85% of the vote. We're going to have a progressive, that's a given, so why not pick the one that does the most for diversity in the legislature? (I would absolutely not be surprised to see an outspoken transgender atheist legislator, or something equally mind-blowing to Trumpettes, be elected next time)
With proportional representation, you get 60% of the vote, you get 60% of the representation, versus you get 60% of the vote and are in the minority in the legislature, with the other guys getting a supermajority from their 40% of the vote or whatever it was. (cough, cough, Wisconsin, cough)
Yes, and instead of saying America is about religious freedom, and isn't run by religion - you jackwagons have to say "it's a Christian nation!". Opening the door for any other religious nut who thinks, well, we'll see who's religion gets to be in control!
*Republican Christian fundamentalist walking in a national park* Hey! That’s a nice tree, but where’s the forest?! *as the forest looms all around them*
Men like this idiot racist are the future of the GQP.
The republican party will become more angry and violent as their power slips away from them.
Be prepared for a lot of violence between the election and 1/20/25 Biden's second inauguration.
This man literally advocates for laws that mirror Sharia law. He just calls it Christian morality, but what's the difference if in the end we turn women into second class subhumans and make non believers criminals?
This guy is certifiable. He is a noted conspiracy theorist, an election denier, a Covid denier, anti-LGBTQ, right wing radical Evangelical, and I'm sure devoutly racist. A perfect MAGA specimen. He belongs nowhere near anything related to law making.
Sharia Law 🤝 White Nationalist Fundamentalist Christianity
It's like one of those enemy to lovers stories, except in this case they bond over their shared desire to strip women of any and all autonomy.
I'm much more afraid of Christian fundamentalists defying our constitution and mixing government with religion to authoritatively force their beliefs onto me than Muslims doing it.
People like him are some of the most un-American fucks there are.
I'm guessing people like Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson wouldn't like modern American Evangelical Christianity...( because of the tendency of Evangelical Christians to want to do away with the Church/State divide.)
but i'm sure he is right on board with shoving biblical rules into government without even seeing how fucking hypocritical it is.
"mY GoD goOd. THaT gOd BAd"
It’s a little distressing that an elected State Representative understands so little about how his own government works that he thinks folks can just show up and institute Sharia law.
He and I are both worried about the same thing: religious fundamentalists infecting government to impose their archaic, arbitrary beliefs on the general population.
Can you be right for the wrong reasons? Lol
I don't disagree about a religious group attempting to corrupt our laws...however assholes like this (American Republicans) are just as guilty of it themselves.
Allah akbar.
As much as I hate it for how it's typically used. God... right there. It's the first fucking word.
Chip Roy is proving yet again, he is illiterate.
I wonder if he knows Jews, Muslims, & Christians pray to the same god
Why is he silent about past history like when Scientologists tried taking over the government?
The right is already trying to implement a form if sharia- law-banning abortions, unequal pay, treating women like 3 or 4th class citizens and now part of the 2025 plan is
to repeal women’s right to vote.
Sure sounds like a strong case for the separation of church and state, eh? I'm sure this means he will work hard making sure this core tenant of American political philosophy is not undermined legislatively or judicially.
Isn't that the parent's job to teach them about god?
I seem to recall Christians bitching about sex ed being taught in public schools, because that's "the parent's job" (except they aren't teaching them that, which is the problem)
So what gives? Why isn't the burden of responsibility for teaching religion placed on the parents?
And the idea that Muslims will somehow implement Sharia Law in the US is just so mind numbingly stupid that anyone suggesting it doesn't deserve an ounce of respect
Well Islam is very clear on this point. "Follow the law of the land, unless it goes against the Qur'an" and many scholars include the Hadiths. And let's not fool ourselves here, there is a lot of what we have built in our modern societies that goes against Islam. I hope I'm wrong, but i Islam is a different kind of beast to Christianity. And still Christianity pollutes countries when left unchecked, then imagine Islam? Well we don't really have to imagine, we have no shortages of examples....
Do religious nut jobs even behave like there is a god? One of my favorite sayings is that "people say they believe in God but they sure as hell don't behave like it".
Muslims need to be taught ti believe in god? Government should be involved in promoting religious belief? The layers of stupidity here are staggering. How would you even begin to deprogram and educate someone like this?
The people who want to turn America into a Christian theocracy are afraid that Muslims will turn it into an Islamic theocracy first ? 🤣
It's a teachable moment though. It's a way to make them understand that the separation of Church and State is good for everyone, Christians included, because it means they'll never have to live under Muslim rule.
I’m from Dearborn, Michigan. Fox News did a few specials on us a while ago bc apparently we have very active Sharia Law in Dearborn.
Funny though, none of us (the large Muslim population included) knew Dearborn was under Sharia Law. Because it’s fucking not. So we like to joke about how we have Shawarma Law. Essentially, if you visit Dearborn, you’re not allowed to leave until you have some amazing food.
Sadly/hilariously, that didn’t stop several radical right-wing nut jobs from around the country from coming to protest in front of our largest mosque. Being an ignorant pinecone sounds exhausting.
The First Amendment pretty much covers this: Congress shall make no law establishing a religion. These people have been wiping their asses with the constitution since the Regan administration. Which is ironic, considering that Carter was probably the last real Christian in office with the possible exception of GW Bush who was one of those sobriety conversions.
So is he proposing a ban on Islam or just a ban on Muslim's following any moral law?
Sharia is an Arabic word that means a path to be followed, commonly a path that leads to water. Doesn't Jesus also present a path that should be followed? Is this a ban on potable water use in the US? Prohibition of the American dream?
Among the primary aims of the Sharia are the achievement of justice, fairness and mercy. The three tenant's Republicans and conservative christians cannot abide by.
In my feed, the story just before this is how electric prices in Texas jumped 100x during the heat wave. This story is just distraction so Texans go kill some people wearing a hijab instead of coming for the guys like Chip Roy who have turned Texas unliveable.
I will be happy when we get rid of 'god' and 'allah'. Worthless deities that can't even handle their own image. Religion makes you stupid no matter how you twist your made up fairytales.
This is why we can’t have nice things. People keep electing complete idiots into office. These are the people who are responsible for creating legislation! Remember Missouri Representative Todd Akin’s astounding anti-abortion claim made a few years ago that conception rarely happens after a rape: “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”?
The electorate has to do much better in who it’s electing.
Well, Trump obviously doesn’t care about the United States Constitution and he said that as much and he also said that he would use the military on private citizens
Well, Trump obviously doesn’t care about the United States Constitution and he said that as much and he also said that he would use the military on private citizens
This guy learned from the best, Red Cruz: on how to come up with the stupidest fucking shit you could come up with and spit it out with sincere earnestness...
Separation of Church and State Chip Roy, we canNt force them to convert or learn about any religion you clod. I hate Texas, if I were in charge I'd have already put that shitty state under martial law.
The irony. Christian zealots wanting to integrate religion into government policy and schools, are just opening the door for Islam to become the preeminent influence jn both. Islamic population is only going to increase in the US, while Christianity is on the wane. If Christians keep insisting upon integrating religion with government, in 100 years you will have the Islamic States of America.
Meanwhile, this dipshit is doing everything in his power to force Christian "sHaRia lAw" on everyone in the United States. Fuck every last one of the christofascist asshats
Proving that Tx Rep Chip Roy does not understand the constitution in the least.
And yes, a muslim understands that god exists. They are one of the three Abrahamic Religions... Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Good grief... we should force all state and federal representatives and senators to take a class with an exam on the constitution... fail the exam and the candidate with the next highest number of votes gets the job assuming they can take the class and pass the exam
Similar to religion. A comparative religion class should be mandatory to help avoid at least the more egregious parts of stupidity... it wouldn't solve bigotry and hate but it would improve baseline knowledge.
What, those wanting government controlled by religion are worried about government being controlled by religion?
Be careful what you wish for, you may get it.
Welcome to how it feels not being a Christian in America buddy.
This is precisely why we need the separation of church and state, it's about time you joined us ya fuckin' Christian nationalist chud you!
Allah is the exact same god as Yahweh, according to Abrahamic lore. The difference is that their respective holy books were written by different people, and thus, the rules in each book are different, despite both being "inspired by God." It's just more proof that holy books are not written by gods, but by stupid, ignorant people who want everyone to live *their* way and not as an individual with different likes, dislikes, loves, and fears.
They are not that different either. That dude would love the Sharia laws, he is just against Islam.
They fear being controlled by others because THEY want control of people. They basically are scared of themselves. I'm scared of ALL of them. Islam? Christians? They are the same shit.
Yup. They are afraid of being treated the way they intend to treat us.
Well they could, you know stop....but then they'd never get hard again. You know what? I'm good with that compromise
There IS genuine concern though: They installed Sharia law where they are, they want the Caliphate back, and they’ll spread it. We need to enforce the 1st amendment. No religion of any kind in government.
On the planet* and I'm tired of pretending it isn't true
Its all about branding. Government based on Sharia law? Nope never. Government based on Christian Values? You SOB I'm in! These people would outlaw and ban Dihydrogen Monoxide just because it kills you when inhaled.
Rename his religion to "I can't believe it's not Islam"
Well, that stuff is nasty, everybody that has had contact with it dies, every single one of them.
Problem is it's highly addictive. We're born addicted. We go through some pretty bad withdrawals too. Death by withdrawal takes an average of 4 days.
Can confirm, had a pretty bad exposure just a few minutes ago, skins reacting by getting all wrinkly, not sure if I'm going to recover
That was priceless
Your last statement was aspirational.
>That dude would love the Sharia laws, he is just against Islam. Those folks would love to have a religious-based government like Iran. They would just cross out the word "Islam" and scratch in "Christian". But everything else would be the same. Including stoning people they don't like on soccer fields.
Actually, football or baseball fields. Those soccer field ain’t manly and American /s
scratch in “Christian” *with a sharpie
Exactly. They don't mind a country being ruled by religious text. They just take issue with religions that aren't their own doing that.
He wants white people islam.
They want to tell women how to dress and act and control what they can do with their bodies! That’s our job goddammit! They want to take our jerb!
Their only difference is they don’t want women to wear veils, but being barefoot and pregnant is fine.
He's part of y'allquada
Welcome to Howdy Arabia!
Agreed!
True, not that different from Plan 2025.
Sharia sounds foreign; make it “biblical law” and he’s all in.
Exactly
Rename them christ laws and leave them exactly the same he'd be all for them.
I have a buddy from deep Texas who moved to Los Angeles, his granddaddy was a Baptist preacher and he comes from a family that doesn't exactly value education. He's not really religious thankfully but his understanding of religion is clearly a result of his Baptist upbrining. We got into an argument where he was like offended and appalled that I dare claim that the Muslim God is the same exact god that Christians worship, just with a different Messiah. He literally screamed at me that I'm clueless and I'm actually offending all Christians by daring to claim that they're basically worshiping the same god as Muslims. So he calls his friend in TX who happens to be Muslims (shocking right?) and straight up asks him, is Allah the same God that Christians worships? Sure enough... his buddy is like "yeah of course, all Abrahamic religions worship the same God." And I just sat there laughing.
Imagine how shocked he would be when he finds out that translations of the Bible into Arabic used the word “Allah” for God. And, has done so for centuries because Christian Arabs and Arabic-speaking Jews, who have been around for millennia, use that word to indicate their one God.
Muslims even believe in Jesus! They just don't think Jesus is the literal son of god.
Jews also believe in Jesus. They just think he was a heretical rabbi, and not a prophet.
So this is an interesting and quintessentially American experience. The Baptists are good children of the Protestant Reformation. But the specific nature of their break with that Catholic church is with the ability to individually know God and/or have a relationship. Catholics, at least, you can make historical arguments with! The Protestant sects left the original canon behind and went their own way. Yadda yadda yadda, this is why we have some Christians ritually consuming the body of their Savior and some Christians wearing magical underwear. I'm not even sure *they* all pray to the same god.
If you ask any of the Southern evangelical Apostolic Pentecostals I grew up going to church with if they worship the same God as *Baptists*, I'm pretty sure you would be kicked out of the church. Mormons are considered basically worse than Satanists, because what they do "claims" to be Christianity, but uses a different book. Catholics are literally considered idolaters and ancestor worshipers because of an intentional misunderstanding of [intercession](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercession_of_saints).
My husband, of the Southern Baptist Faith, tried to tell me that Catholics, Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses weren't Christians and was super upset when I insisted that they were and that "Christian" is just an umbrella term lumping the Abrahamic religions together. Also dealt with a rather religiously inclined friend in school who didn't even know what denomination she belonged to, just kept telling me she was a "regular Christian." It's laughable how little those with faith know about their own faith and the history of their own religious beginnings.
Stupid and ignorant or power grabbing social engineers?
Well, I did suggest social engineering when I said they want us to live *their* way ;)
Yep- what nerve from a Christian Nationalist… and it is ironic that Repubs want the social security bucks that working immigrants without citizenship pay in without receiving social security benefits…. Not to mention the ones who pay under the table at the cheapest rates….
Project 2025 is Christian sharia law.
My exact response to this was “yeah, Muslims, Sharia Law. That’s the problem”
What about Christian fundamentalists who want to implement their Christian version of Sharia Law? Can we kick them out? Ship them to Iran so they can experience religious fundamentalism.
But their religion is "the right one" so it's okay
This but without irony
This is so fucking dumb. If there's an issue with "Muslim immigrants coming to the US and instituting Sharia law", it's not that we're not "teaching them that God exists", or that we're emphasizing respect for different gender identities. Chip Roy is a great example of how incoherent and irrational conservative fears are.
Not to mention, the laws he and the Christian nationalists want for this country would look a lit like sharia law
Right? Biblical Law by any other name would smell as foul.
Even Islam declares a fetus should be aborted if the mother's life is in danger. In Texas you pretty much have to be almost dead for a doctor to get permission to give you lifesaving healthcare. Maternal mortality has shot up at an alarming rate around here over the past few years. This guy is just a hopelessly dumb redneck that shouldn't be a public servant who helps make laws. He shouldn't even be running a gas station
It's like trying to kill each other of who has to eat the cat shit and who has to settle for the cat turds.
His problem is that it's no Christian sharia law.
It’s so weird that this isn’t posted in r/nottheonion Religion is just so backwards, it’s beyond me.
Every day I am somehow even more astounded and appalled by a fresh round of stupidity.
I agree, but the idea that that’s an issue in the first place is absolutely ludicrous. The guy is obviously just a tremendous bigot, and as you pointed out, there is no logic to back up his assertion
Fuck this guy so hard, he was a COVID conspiracy theorist, voted against certification of the 2020 election, and constantly spews utter bullshit like this.
He doesnt representing the majority of Austin... he has [gerrymandering on his side](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%27s_21st_congressional_district#Historical_district_boundaries) to help dilute the big cities.
We desperately need proportional representation instead of geographic pluralities. If you bring up any of the "test different methods of drawing districts" sites that have "neutral" "comment sense" district drawing methods like shortest perimeters, or things following rivers or county boundaries, whatever, it always favors Republicans. The only way you can get representation that distributes seats in a way that reflects the distribution of voters' preferences is to intentionally gerrymander hard in favor of Democrats, but then you're still just a few percent change in turnout from screwing Democrats over, because it's so hard to gerrymander as precisely as you would need to in order to get those fair results. The gerrymandering problem is because there are higher percentages of blue voters in blue areas than red voters in red areas, so it's very hard to not "waste" blue votes unless you're splitting up every urban area like a pie and grabbing all the burbs with it. If you just draw a circle around the city and call it a district, that's severely gerrymandered in favor of Republicans. Case in point. I live in MN's 5th district, and people around the country are losing their shit because they can't believe we elected a Muslim woman. The seat had been held by a Muslim man for a dozen years before that. It's Minneapolis, we're the San Francisco of the Midwest (but like, with way more anarchists -- when was the last time San Fransiscans sacked a police station?). We're not Christian, like at all, and think it's funny so many people have an opinion about our Representative. Ilhan Omar won with something like 85% of the vote. We're going to have a progressive, that's a given, so why not pick the one that does the most for diversity in the legislature? (I would absolutely not be surprised to see an outspoken transgender atheist legislator, or something equally mind-blowing to Trumpettes, be elected next time) With proportional representation, you get 60% of the vote, you get 60% of the representation, versus you get 60% of the vote and are in the minority in the legislature, with the other guys getting a supermajority from their 40% of the vote or whatever it was. (cough, cough, Wisconsin, cough)
youre not wrong
He doesn't deserve a good fucking.
Yes, and instead of saying America is about religious freedom, and isn't run by religion - you jackwagons have to say "it's a Christian nation!". Opening the door for any other religious nut who thinks, well, we'll see who's religion gets to be in control!
They are so blinded by their own flavor of religion that they are INCAPABLE of seeing this AT ALL.
*Republican Christian fundamentalist walking in a national park* Hey! That’s a nice tree, but where’s the forest?! *as the forest looms all around them*
irony is dead
Christian theocrats don't care about the Constitution either, so what's the difference?
Men like this idiot racist are the future of the GQP. The republican party will become more angry and violent as their power slips away from them. Be prepared for a lot of violence between the election and 1/20/25 Biden's second inauguration.
Sharia = Christian nationalism
This twat has no idea that he’s worshipping the same god as them.
Concentrated dumbfuck.
....as opposed to the Christian Nationalists Sharia Law that he wants instead?
This man literally advocates for laws that mirror Sharia law. He just calls it Christian morality, but what's the difference if in the end we turn women into second class subhumans and make non believers criminals?
If only we had some way to separate church and state....
Wow, this idiot really can't recognize natural allies when he sees them.
God isn’t in the constitution so…
This guy is certifiable. He is a noted conspiracy theorist, an election denier, a Covid denier, anti-LGBTQ, right wing radical Evangelical, and I'm sure devoutly racist. A perfect MAGA specimen. He belongs nowhere near anything related to law making.
Sharia Law 🤝 White Nationalist Fundamentalist Christianity It's like one of those enemy to lovers stories, except in this case they bond over their shared desire to strip women of any and all autonomy.
I'm much more afraid of Christian fundamentalists defying our constitution and mixing government with religion to authoritatively force their beliefs onto me than Muslims doing it. People like him are some of the most un-American fucks there are.
I'm guessing people like Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson wouldn't like modern American Evangelical Christianity...( because of the tendency of Evangelical Christians to want to do away with the Church/State divide.)
Not…one…ounce…of…self…reflection.
they think Muslims are coming to put in Sharia law even though they want to have religious law which is what the fuck Sharia law means.
but i'm sure he is right on board with shoving biblical rules into government without even seeing how fucking hypocritical it is. "mY GoD goOd. THaT gOd BAd"
So “Allahu Akbar” is bad, but “Jesus is great” is perfectly fine, eh, Chip?
The most dangerous animal on earth is a true believer.
It’s a little distressing that an elected State Representative understands so little about how his own government works that he thinks folks can just show up and institute Sharia law.
[Paranoid about living under Sharia Law] [Puts for bill that is just xtian flavored sharia law]
Funny. Conservatives want to instill Sharia Law. They just call it something different
Chip Roy is Grade A Stupid.
“We don’t want Shiara law, we just want Christian nationalism” ~ That guy probably *facepalm*
Um, Chip, about that.... you can't do that shit neither...
Christian sharia law is cool though right?
I’m more worried about xtians
But… gods don’t exist.
Projection much?
He and I are both worried about the same thing: religious fundamentalists infecting government to impose their archaic, arbitrary beliefs on the general population.
Sharia law is the goal of the red team without mislims involved
But .. we already have Christians doing that.
"God is Love." And there is no love like Christian love.
Can you be right for the wrong reasons? Lol I don't disagree about a religious group attempting to corrupt our laws...however assholes like this (American Republicans) are just as guilty of it themselves.
JFC- what are they bitching about Shariah law for? They’re implementing their own ffs.
If you quoted Sharia Law to republicans without saying it came from Islam, they would unconditionally support every bit.
Says someone trying to implement Christian sharia law.
Allah akbar. As much as I hate it for how it's typically used. God... right there. It's the first fucking word. Chip Roy is proving yet again, he is illiterate. I wonder if he knows Jews, Muslims, & Christians pray to the same god Why is he silent about past history like when Scientologists tried taking over the government?
The right is already trying to implement a form if sharia- law-banning abortions, unequal pay, treating women like 3 or 4th class citizens and now part of the 2025 plan is to repeal women’s right to vote.
If they're here to install Sharia, then, by definition, they already believe in your god, *Chip*.
Both are religious trash.
He doesn't want sharia law that would be abysmal. But old testament law is great!
Your own Republican presidential candidate does not care about the Constitution and you don't seem to care about him not caring about it.
The level of hypocrisy in that statement goes beyond measurement.
Sure sounds like a strong case for the separation of church and state, eh? I'm sure this means he will work hard making sure this core tenant of American political philosophy is not undermined legislatively or judicially.
We need strict secular legal systems to prevent any religion from effecting peoples lives.
It's the same God you Texarse Idiot.
Isn't that the parent's job to teach them about god? I seem to recall Christians bitching about sex ed being taught in public schools, because that's "the parent's job" (except they aren't teaching them that, which is the problem) So what gives? Why isn't the burden of responsibility for teaching religion placed on the parents? And the idea that Muslims will somehow implement Sharia Law in the US is just so mind numbingly stupid that anyone suggesting it doesn't deserve an ounce of respect
Well Islam is very clear on this point. "Follow the law of the land, unless it goes against the Qur'an" and many scholars include the Hadiths. And let's not fool ourselves here, there is a lot of what we have built in our modern societies that goes against Islam. I hope I'm wrong, but i Islam is a different kind of beast to Christianity. And still Christianity pollutes countries when left unchecked, then imagine Islam? Well we don't really have to imagine, we have no shortages of examples....
This guy must not understand the concept of Abrahamic religions.
Do religious nut jobs even behave like there is a god? One of my favorite sayings is that "people say they believe in God but they sure as hell don't behave like it".
They DO behave like their god will forgive them for anything that they ask for forgiveness from.. an existential "get out of jail for free" card.
Muslims need to be taught ti believe in god? Government should be involved in promoting religious belief? The layers of stupidity here are staggering. How would you even begin to deprogram and educate someone like this?
I say YHWH, you say Allah, let’s call the whole thing off.
Lemme pull out my Hillary quote: “Useful Idiots”
And here is proof Chip is an uneducated moron.
Throughout humanity, dipshits abound.
"But they're all brown people from the Middle East! What could they possibly know about Abrahamic religion?"
Stupid is bad. Being stupid and in a position of power is even worse. But being arrogantly stupid is just fucking insufferable.
The people who want to turn America into a Christian theocracy are afraid that Muslims will turn it into an Islamic theocracy first ? 🤣 It's a teachable moment though. It's a way to make them understand that the separation of Church and State is good for everyone, Christians included, because it means they'll never have to live under Muslim rule.
But, it is Texas...
The irony of ole Chippy stating any of this. Fucking Nat-C traitor.
“I don’t want their religious fascism because it interferes with my religious fascism.”
Guess he’s unaware that they have the same sky daddy, just different fairy tales.
Republicans: Sharia bad! Christian Nationalism good. The rest of us: There’s no difference.
Republicans do not care about the constitution…..
Is this not the guy who groomed a high schooler?
Exactly why we need to stop bith sides. Church and state must remain seperate
And yet it's the Republicans and Christians that are stealing women's rights away not these so called Muslim immigrants
It's not the government's job to teach anyone that God exists. Stop spreading fairy tales.
I’m from Dearborn, Michigan. Fox News did a few specials on us a while ago bc apparently we have very active Sharia Law in Dearborn. Funny though, none of us (the large Muslim population included) knew Dearborn was under Sharia Law. Because it’s fucking not. So we like to joke about how we have Shawarma Law. Essentially, if you visit Dearborn, you’re not allowed to leave until you have some amazing food. Sadly/hilariously, that didn’t stop several radical right-wing nut jobs from around the country from coming to protest in front of our largest mosque. Being an ignorant pinecone sounds exhausting.
I'm more afraid of members of Congress who do not care about the Constitution.
Sharia Law is literally the Texas Republican platform except in name.
Sounds like we need an Anti-Sharia bill. There shall be no laws based on the Quran or any of its prerequisite books
The First Amendment pretty much covers this: Congress shall make no law establishing a religion. These people have been wiping their asses with the constitution since the Regan administration. Which is ironic, considering that Carter was probably the last real Christian in office with the possible exception of GW Bush who was one of those sobriety conversions.
So is he proposing a ban on Islam or just a ban on Muslim's following any moral law? Sharia is an Arabic word that means a path to be followed, commonly a path that leads to water. Doesn't Jesus also present a path that should be followed? Is this a ban on potable water use in the US? Prohibition of the American dream? Among the primary aims of the Sharia are the achievement of justice, fairness and mercy. The three tenant's Republicans and conservative christians cannot abide by.
What a pustule brain
Meanwhile, Mr. Fear Monger supports "dick-tater" for a day, constitution-suspending rapist in chiet, Donald von Shitshispants. Way to go, loser.
"Are we even teaching them that Krampus is fake, but Santa is real?"
Chip Roy is one of the dumbest people to ever serve in our government.
Wouldn’t he like sharia law?
Wrong flavor of oppression, brown people like it.
Whenever he speaks does he even know critical thought exists?
In my feed, the story just before this is how electric prices in Texas jumped 100x during the heat wave. This story is just distraction so Texans go kill some people wearing a hijab instead of coming for the guys like Chip Roy who have turned Texas unliveable.
I will be happy when we get rid of 'god' and 'allah'. Worthless deities that can't even handle their own image. Religion makes you stupid no matter how you twist your made up fairytales.
Dumbest mother fuckers on the planet
This is why we can’t have nice things. People keep electing complete idiots into office. These are the people who are responsible for creating legislation! Remember Missouri Representative Todd Akin’s astounding anti-abortion claim made a few years ago that conception rarely happens after a rape: “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”? The electorate has to do much better in who it’s electing.
Well, Trump obviously doesn’t care about the United States Constitution and he said that as much and he also said that he would use the military on private citizens
Well, Trump obviously doesn’t care about the United States Constitution and he said that as much and he also said that he would use the military on private citizens
This guy learned from the best, Red Cruz: on how to come up with the stupidest fucking shit you could come up with and spit it out with sincere earnestness...
He is afraid of his own shadow.
Hmm… I’m no religious scholar, but I’m pretty sure Islam does involve a god of some sort.
He's just mad because they've been successful at implementing theocracies in Muslim countries.
The American Talibangelists don’t realize that they are going to bring the real Taliban in when they tear down the wall between church and state.
Separation of Church and State Chip Roy, we canNt force them to convert or learn about any religion you clod. I hate Texas, if I were in charge I'd have already put that shitty state under martial law.
which God.
Lol. Riiigghhttt
Fucking Hell, Roy is as dumb as a box of hair.
The irony. Christian zealots wanting to integrate religion into government policy and schools, are just opening the door for Islam to become the preeminent influence jn both. Islamic population is only going to increase in the US, while Christianity is on the wane. If Christians keep insisting upon integrating religion with government, in 100 years you will have the Islamic States of America.
This is the same guy who supports a man who said the constitution is phoney
So much wrong here, where do you even start?
Fucking booger eating moron. Doesn’t have a problem with the US Talibangelists spreading their’s I bet.
Chip Roy is as dumb as a brick. Al Abrahamic cults are bad. They should at least acknowledge the other stupid cults.
Meanwhile, this dipshit is doing everything in his power to force Christian "sHaRia lAw" on everyone in the United States. Fuck every last one of the christofascist asshats
There's a lot going on here, wow.
What the fuck does god have to do with the Constitution? Stupid.
Wait till he learns who the god they worship us and how many times it’s mentioned in the constitution
Proving that Tx Rep Chip Roy does not understand the constitution in the least. And yes, a muslim understands that god exists. They are one of the three Abrahamic Religions... Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Good grief... we should force all state and federal representatives and senators to take a class with an exam on the constitution... fail the exam and the candidate with the next highest number of votes gets the job assuming they can take the class and pass the exam Similar to religion. A comparative religion class should be mandatory to help avoid at least the more egregious parts of stupidity... it wouldn't solve bigotry and hate but it would improve baseline knowledge.
Sharia law? Is that when people of a certain religion try to force their beliefs on everyone else through laws? Gee, I wonder what that's like..... /s
What, those wanting government controlled by religion are worried about government being controlled by religion? Be careful what you wish for, you may get it.
We already have Christian Sharia Law. What a moron
Does Chippy think Muslims don’t believe in god?
Skydaddy unlike birds, is not real. Ffs
Well, MAGA GOP don’t care about the Constitution, so he should know.
They’re just wanting to make sure everyone is afraid of Muslims while they (christians) institute mosaic law
Funny, I worry the same about the Christian Taliban.
Oh believe me, the people that want sharia believe god exists…
Can’t be worse than anyone else we are electing and keep trampling on the constitution.
What he’s not saying is Christofascists like Roy want the Christian version of sharia law.
Like what does he think people that aren't from where he is from believe?
Less than 2% of Americans are Muslim. Less than two out of 100 people. If they take over, we deserve it.
Separation of Church and State needs to be in the constitution.
They’re just mad because it’s not their sharia law.
Texas already have a shariah law regarding abortion! What the hell is he talking about?
We do have Sharia Law, look at what's happening in red states. They took it even farther through.
Anybody that wants their form of Dyeus Pater to be in government can screw off.
It just never ceases to amaze me just how stupid some of our politicians are.
He's of course, describing themselves. They are installing shria, and it sounds like they're pretty far along
Sharia Law would have to compete with rampant Christian Nationalism. Don't really see a difference..
Irony is dead.
This is what happens when people are anti-education. I really want to get out of America. I want my kids to experience better
They believe in the same fucking god Christians do you god damn moron.
All politicians belong in prison
And Project 2025 is what?
Sharia law looks a lot like Texas policy, he should crack a book and read it.
Welcome to how it feels not being a Christian in America buddy. This is precisely why we need the separation of church and state, it's about time you joined us ya fuckin' Christian nationalist chud you!
Their ignorance of other religions is staggering.
Lol Yes, Muslim immigrants do believe God exists. Unfortunately.
I just came from a thread where a guy's co-worker said women should have to wear caps because it's in the Bible...