INVESTIGATING ISLAM

Islam’s Impact on the USA

A Critical, Evidence-Based Examination

Introduction: Why It Matters

In modern discourse, Islam is often described as “just another religion,” a neutral cultural addition to the Western world that deserves the same respect and protection as any other. But this assumption demands scrutiny, not deference. What happens when a system with its own legal code, political aims, and totalizing worldview intersects with a secular, liberal democracy like the United States?

This is not a question of individual Muslims or personal faith — this is about Islam as a socio-political system, a historical ideology, and a civilizational project that claims global jurisdiction. In this post, we critically examine the real, measurable impact of Islam on the United States across law, policy, free speech, education, security, and cultural norms — using only hard data, legal precedents, historical facts, and publicly available records.

1. Islam Is Not Just a Religion — It’s a Legal System

The United States is governed by a Constitution that strictly separates church from state. Islam, by contrast, brings with it sharia — a comprehensive legal system covering every aspect of life, from criminal justice to family law to economics.

Even “moderate” sharia includes:

Death for apostasy (Qur’an 4:89; reliance on Hadith and ijmāʿ)
Stoning for adultery (Sahih Muslim, Book 17, Hadith 4192)
Gender inequality in inheritance, testimony, and status
Blasphemy punishments (death or imprisonment)

Attempts to normalize sharia influence in U.S. courts are no longer fringe:

In 2011, 50 U.S. court cases involved sharia-based arguments. Some were dismissed, but others led to significant legal battles involving honor violence, forced marriage, or religious arbitration.
Groups like CAIR have fought to keep sharia permissible in private arbitration, framing it as religious freedom while ignoring its anti-constitutional clauses.

Why this matters: U.S. law guarantees equality under the law. Sharia does not. Where Islamic jurisprudence creeps in, liberal democratic principles get subordinated to religious doctrine.

2. Blasphemy and the Death of Free Speech

One of the most dangerous imports from Islamic ideology is its global intolerance of criticism — often enforced through violence or legal intimidation.

In 2015, the Charlie Hebdo massacre in France was directly tied to cartoons mocking Muhammad — a reaction grounded in Islamic doctrine that prohibits ridicule of the Prophet.
In the U.S., Garland, Texas (2015) saw two armed Muslim men attack an event featuring a Muhammad cartoon contest.
Islamic organizations like CAIR and ISNA routinely pressure media platforms, universities, and corporations to self-censor anything “Islamophobic” — a term that includes factual critique of doctrine, such as:
- The prophet’s marriage to a 9-year-old (Sahih Bukhari 5133)
- Slavery permitted in Islamic texts (Qur’an 4:3; 24:33)
- Islamic supremacy and non-Muslim subjugation (Qur’an 9:29)

The result? Chilling effects on speech. From publishers avoiding satire to professors being fired over historical content, a soft blasphemy code is emerging — not by law, but by fear and coordinated pressure.

3. Islam’s Political Lobby in the U.S.

Islamic organizations in the U.S. are not just religious charities — they are political actors with clear ideological goals.

Major actors include:

CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations):
Founded in 1994 and later named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism-financing trial in U.S. history (Holy Land Foundation case, 2008). CAIR presents itself as a civil rights group while:
- Promoting anti-Israel narratives
- Lobbying against anti-sharia legislation
- Pressuring media and academia to sanitize Islamic topics
ISNA (Islamic Society of North America):
Also listed in the Holy Land Foundation trial. Closely tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Islamist group with political ambitions.
MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council):
Influences Hollywood, textbooks, and journalism guidelines to ensure favorable portrayals of Islam and marginalize dissent.

These organizations are well-funded, media-savvy, and strategically placed. They lobby for laws that shield Islam from criticism while pushing narratives that conflate Muslim identity with civil rights, discouraging legitimate scrutiny as “hate speech.”

4. Islam in U.S. Prisons: Conversion and Radicalization

Islam is the fastest-growing religion among U.S. inmates. According to DOJ data:

Roughly 18% of the prison population identifies as Muslim
In some states (like New York), it exceeds 25%

Why the explosion?

Islam offers a total identity replacement — discipline, hierarchy, victimhood narrative, and divine justification for aggression. Radical groups like Nation of Islam and Salafi movements actively recruit.

Former FBI agents and counterterrorism experts have warned that prisons are incubators for jihadist ideology, as seen in:

2002: Jam’iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh plot to attack military bases
2015: ISIS sympathizers radicalized in prison systems

Bottom line: Islam in prisons isn’t just rehabilitation — it can be ideological militarization.

5. Islam in U.S. Education: Indoctrination vs. Information

While Christianity is pushed out of public schools, Islam is often introduced through biased curriculum under the banner of “multicultural understanding.”

Examples:

Textbooks in California and Texas present Muhammad as a peaceful reformer, omitting jihad, polygamy, and his political/military rule.
Assignments have included:
- Reciting the shahada (Islamic conversion creed)
- Copying Arabic phrases from the Qur’an
- Simulated prayers in classroom exercises

Parents across several states — including Tennessee, Florida, and New Jersey — have filed complaints. Some schools rolled back the lessons, but many still disproportionately sanitize Islam’s history while ignoring its expansion by conquest.

6. Islamic Immigration and Demographic Shifts

According to Pew Research (2021), Muslims are projected to double in the U.S. by 2050, reaching over 8 million. While immigration itself is not inherently problematic, ideological demographics matter.

In multiple surveys:

A significant percentage of American Muslims believe sharia should be the law of the land (Pew 2011: ~30%)
51% of U.S. Muslims in a 2017 poll preferred blasphemy laws
A majority of younger Muslims believe criticism of Islam should be legally punishable

These are not fringe views. They reflect what Islam teaches globally. In countries like the UK, France, or Sweden, we’ve already seen the results:

No-go zones
Parallel legal systems
Surging rates of anti-Semitic crimes and grooming gang scandals

The U.S. is not immune — it’s simply 10–15 years behind.

7. Islam and National Security: Domestic Terror Threats

Since 9/11, Islamic extremism has remained the dominant source of ideological terror in the U.S. — even if it no longer dominates headlines.

Key stats:

Over 100 ISIS-inspired plots have been foiled in the U.S. since 2014
Fort Hood (2009): 13 killed by a U.S. Army Major who yelled “Allahu Akbar”
Boston Marathon Bombing (2013): 3 dead, hundreds injured by Chechen Muslim brothers
Orlando Pulse Nightclub (2016): 49 killed by Omar Mateen pledging allegiance to ISIS
San Bernardino Attack (2015): 14 killed by a radicalized Muslim couple

Yes, most Muslims are peaceful. But ideological Islam, as taught in mosques worldwide, is not.

8. The “Islamophobia” Smokescreen

The term “Islamophobia” is weaponized to shut down legitimate criticism, equating ideas with identity. If you criticize Christian theology, you're a skeptic. If you criticize Islam, you're a bigot.

This distortion has created:

Cancel campaigns against ex-Muslims like Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Maajid Nawaz
De-platforming of critics from social media
Biased hate-crime reporting (e.g., many “Islamophobic” incidents turn out to be hoaxes or non-religious in origin)

It’s not about protecting people. It’s about shielding doctrine from scrutiny.

Conclusion: It’s Time to Stop Pretending

Islam’s impact on the USA is not neutral, benign, or limited to personal spirituality. It is a comprehensive, supremacist system that enters under the guise of religion but seeks to influence law, culture, education, and national security.

This isn’t about hating Muslims — it’s about recognizing that Islam is not just a religion. It is a geopolitical ideology with totalitarian instincts, incompatible with core American values like:

Freedom of speech
Religious pluralism
Gender equality
Secular governance

When a system like that grows unchecked, it doesn't assimilate — it subjugates.

🔻 DISCLAIMER

This critique targets Islamic doctrine and political influence, not individual Muslims. Many Muslims are peaceful, sincere people — often unaware of or detached from the full scope of their inherited belief system. Our criticism is of the ideological system, its historical trajectory, and its modern political manifestations — not its adherents.