From a Youtube Video;
May 25, 2026
At a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing inside the Rayburn Building, researcher and former Muslim community member Ms. Mecklenburg delivered testimony that brought the room to a standstill. Under questioning from Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming — a constitutional lawyer with twenty-five years of federal litigation experience — Mecklenburg outlined how Sharia-based tribunals operating across at least a dozen American cities are systematically denying women and children their constitutional protections. She named two organizations at the center of this parallel legal structure: the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America and the Fiqh Council of North America. And then she said something that no one in that room had come prepared to hear out loud. In this breakdown, Freya examines the full scope of what was revealed during that hearing — from the tribunal's own published mission statement declaring its intent to be replicated across the United States, to Mecklenburg's on-the-record claim that fatwas issued by these bodies include rulings on what should be done to apostates and blasphemers on American soil. The constitutional questions at stake — touching the First, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Fourteenth Amendments — go far beyond any single hearing room. The organizations named have not responded. The tribunal website Hageman quoted has since removed its founding language. And the Democratic congressman recognized immediately after this testimony spoke about something else entirely.
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