Tolerating Sharia Law Is Going to Cost Us

That’s not true, of course. In Texas, an infamous imam has made a habit of harassing stores into halting the sale of pork products, alcohol, and lottery tickets. Eating pork, drinking alcohol, and gambling are all haram under Islam, after all.

Telling this imam and his adherents simply to not shop at that establishment is not enough, of course. The imam argues that the existence of the store is a temptation for Muslims, who apparently don’t have the same self-control as Baptists and Mormons, who are also teetotalers and yet somehow don’t harass businesses. Mitt Romney will never protest outside of a Starbucks, demanding they don’t sell coffee.

Now it turns out Sharia law is de facto government policy in many places. Sharia law doesn’t allow Muslims to pay interest, so everything from loan programs to economic development plans is being changed to accommodate them.

EXC: Sharia financing is being adopted as official government policy across America.

I found dozens of examples of cities, states and federal regulators changing loan programs, tax rules, banking policy and economic-development plans to accommodate Islam.

Here’s the list 🧵

— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) August 12, 2026

Louisville, Kentucky, has a “Sharia-compliant” small business loan program.

Louisville, Kentucky: Louisville Metro rewrote its own small-business lending program to accommodate Islamic finance, announcing that METCO “will now offer a Sharia-compliant modification option.” pic.twitter.com/zixNanutjT

— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) August 12, 2026

Minneapolis has city-backed business financing that “conforms with Islamic law.”

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Minneapolis openly offers city-backed business financing that it says “conforms with Islamic law.” The structure avoids conventional interest, uses shared risk and lender profit, and can be matched with city financing. pic.twitter.com/jRdjYPc0Ws

— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) August 12, 2026

Other cities include St. Peter, MN, and Auburn and Lewiston, ME. In fact, the entire state of Maine changed laws so credit unions can offer “Sharia-compliant mortgage loans.” Washington state has similar programs too, as does the city of Seattle.

Winooski, VT ordered financial institutions to create Islamic financing vehicles, Hamtramck, Michigan has “Sharia-compliant loan product” provisions, too. 

The Federal Reserve’s current Regulation K guidance addresses whether certain Islamic-finance arrangements are permissible.

Federal Reserve: The Federal Reserve’s current Regulation K guidance expressly addresses whether certain Islamic-finance arrangements are permissible and recognizes qualifying purchase-and-repurchase structures under federal banking rules. The FAQ is current guidance, although it…

— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) August 12, 2026

And Federal OCC/Project REACh work to find “Sharia-compliant commercial opportunities.”

Federal OCC / Project REACh: The same OCC initiative highlighted banks working together on “Sharia-compliant commercial opportunities,” putting Islamic commercial financing inside a federal financial-inclusion initiative. pic.twitter.com/TKAzeqKuYH

— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) August 12, 2026

If you think these financial institutions are simply eating the cost of doing Sharia-compliant business, you’re fooling yourself. The interest lost on such loans is tacked on to other loans and financial products.

In short, we’re already paying a dhimmi tax any time a non-Muslim gets a loan from any one of the regions in these threads.

Meanwhile, we get to hear about how “Islamophobic” America is, and we get to watch as Muslims in Minneapolis steal our tax dollars to get rich and fund Islamic terrorism back in Somalia. The other day, a Daily Mail writer finally addressed the high rate of rapes at the hands of Islamic men, and said even mentioning that felt “taboo.” I pointed out the solution to the problem will go down one of two paths: the removal of those Islamic invaders from Western nations, or the demand that women start dressing in Islamic garb to avoid being raped.

Guess which path we’re going to take? 

Every time a Christian says something, or a conservative piece of legislation is passed, I get to hear the Left scream about the rise of Christian nationalism. When nuns argue they shouldn’t be forced to provide birth control or house men with women simply because those men say they’re women, it’s an affront to freedom and unfit for a pluralistic, tolerant society. Pete Hegseth’s tattoos were the second coming of the Holy Roman Empire.

But Islam? It gets all the special treatment.

And the Left will tell us that Islam enjoys First Amendment protections, too, to which I say, the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Sharia law is incompatible with freedom, with equality under American law, and with civilization. The alarming thing is, Sharia law is here, and it’s codified. Every day we allow it to gain a bigger foothold means removing it root and branch will be that much more difficult, to the point of being impossible.