5 things Trump’s Project 2025 Agenda Has In Common with Sharia Law

While the GOP is working overtime to protect Epstein co-conspirators, while doing nothing about skyrocketing inflation, family farms going bankrupt, or their out-of-control President who wants to shred the 1st Amendment, Republican Congressman Randy Fine has introduced a law to “ban” Sharia Law.

But Randy Fine, Donald Trump, Project 2025 and his MAGA base seem to support a lot of the same ideas as countries that enforce strict interpretations of Sharia Law. Here are 5 things they have in common.

1. Regulation of Sexuality and Gender Roles

Trump’s Policies and Project 2025:

• Calls to define Title IX’s “sex” by biological sex and rescind protections interpreted to include gender identity; emphasizes “parental rights” to curtail school treatment of gender identity; proposes rolling back federal policies that recognize gender identity in education.
• In HHS, urges withdrawal of federal support for “gender-affirming care,” asserting “lack of evidence” and “damage following cross-sex treatments, especially on children.”

Strict Sharia Law Implementations

• In countries applying strict interpretations, LGBTQ conduct can be criminalized; penalties range from imprisonment to corporal punishment and, in some jurisdictions, death. (Contemporary practice varies widely; not all Muslim-majority states criminalize LGBTQ status.)
• Taliban Afghanistan has imposed sweeping gender restrictions, including bans on girls’ secondary education and strict public-morality decrees.

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2. Reproductive Control: Abortion and Contraception

Trump’s Policies and Project 2025:

• Urges reframing Title X family planning around fertility awareness; reinstating rules separating Title X providers from abortion activities; promoting “sexual risk avoidance.” It also endorses conscience protections that allow providers to decline services.
• Allies and legal commentators link the agenda to revived federal obscenity/Comstock enforcement aimed at restricting or banning medication abortion distribution by mail. (Comstock is an 1873 federal anti-obscenity statute that has been argued—contestedly—as a vehicle for national abortion drug restrictions.)

Strict Sharia Law Implementations

• In conservative applications, abortion is often prohibited except to save the mother’s life, reflecting jurisprudential views on ensoulment and fetal life. (Specific allowances vary by country/school.)
• Contraception policies differ: some jurisdictions permit it; others restrict access through religious framing or guardianship-linked barriers. (Variation is substantial.)

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3. Morality Policing and Censorship/Obscenity

Trump’s Policies and Project 2025:

• The blueprint and aligned proposals stress federal obscenity enforcement; outside Heritage, contemporaneous proposals (e.g., the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act) aim to redefine obscenity to ease the prosecution of pornography nationwide. Analysts connect Project 2025’s DOJ posture to campaigns enforcing obscenity and Comstock against abortion drugs and sexual content.
• DOJ already maintains an Obscenity program area (CEOS), but Project-aligned calls want to expand the enforcement scope.

Strict Sharia Law Implementations

• Governments may criminalize “immorality” broadly (dress, mixing of sexes, “lewd” media), enforce modesty codes, or restrict internet/media to curb “vice.” Recent Taliban decrees include internet restrictions justified as preventing “immorality.”

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4. Religious Primacy vs. Pluralism

Trump’s Policies and Project 2025:

• Calls to protect and prioritize faith-based providers and a “biblically based” definition of marriage and family in HHS programming; frames federal culture-war policy around “religious liberty” and combating “wokeism.”
• Foreword and structure stress a mission to “restore” a moral order centered on family, life, and religious liberty.

Strict Sharia Law Implementations

• Blasphemy and apostasy laws exist in several countries; penalties can be severe, including death on the books (e.g., Pakistan), and laws are widely criticized for fueling mob violence and suppressing minorities and dissent.

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5. Education and Curriculum Control

Trump’s Policies and Project 2025:

• Recommends rescinding Title IX rules from the prior administration, limiting sex to biological definitions, and repositioning federal education policy to counter “gender ideology” and “woke” content; emphasizes parents’ control over sensitive topics.
• Teacher/education associations warn the blueprint would codify bans and censorship nationally.

Strict Sharia Law Implementations

• In certain regimes (notably Taliban Afghanistan, which Trump surrendered to in 2020), authorities ban or tightly restrict girls’ education beyond certain grades and control curricula to align with religious doctrine.

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Maybe Rep. Randy Fine should explain to his constituents why he’s trying to ban “Sharia Law” (which is not enforced anywhere in the United States) while supporting the implementation of Trump’s similar policies.