Amanda Tyler THE EMBARASSING FOOLISH EXPERT on SHARIAH

 

Amanda Tyler appeared as an expert before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government Hearing: “Sharia-Free America: Why Political Islam & Sharia Law are Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution: Part II”” May 13, 2026. Her written testimony mentions shariah 11 times on four pages with no demonstrable knowledge displayed on what shariah is. At no time does Amanda Tyler address what is in shariah. So we have to ask what is her expertise?

She serves as the Executive Director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC). She states, she is honored “to give testimony about how targeting individuals and groups based on religion violates our countries constitutional commitment to religious freedom for all.” This claimed expertise has nothing to do with the topic. Shariah is Islamic law. Which she revealed repeatedly, by stating in the hearing “Shariah law.” She was actually telling every Muslim listening, that she knows ZERO about Islamic law, because she was saying, “law law.”  Usama Dakdok whose native tongue is Arabic, puts it plainly, “people who say Shariah law, live in Lah-Lah Land.”

Her claimed knowledge that standing against shariah is standing against a religion is another demonstration of her ignorance of Shariah. Muslims believe shariah is to be followed by the entire world. This includes all non-Muslims. Until the entire world is following shariah, jihad must be waged. This is reinforced by o9.0 Jihad.

Amanda Tyler also demonstrates she is unaware of what shariah considers permissible. Amongst the things that are permissible, that Amanda Taylor, expert at stating no one should say no to Shariah must agree with are,

• ·         Shariah may not be questioned (b6.1)

o   (Salih Mu'adhdhin:) Muslims of the Sunna and Community are in agreement that we have arrived at all the rulings of Sacred Law through evidence that iscitherof unquestionably established transmission (qal'i al-wurud) or probabilistically established transmission (zanni al-wurud).

 The suras of the Koran. all of its verses. and those hadiths which have reached us by so many channels of transmission that belief in them is obligatory (mutawatir, def: 022.1(d(11) are all of unquestionably established transmission, since they have reached us by numerous means. by gen eration from generation, whole groups from whole groups, such that it is impossible that the various channels could all have conspired to fabricate them.

 As for the evidentiary character of these texts, regardless whether they are of unquestionably or probabilistically established transmission, they are of two types.

 The first type, unquestionable as evidence (qat'i aJ-daJala), is a plain text that does not admit of more than one meaning, which no mind can interpret beyond its one meaning, and which there is no possibility to construe in terms of other than its apparent sense. This type includes Koranic ver ses that deal with fundamental tenets of faith in the oneness of Allah, the prayer, zakat. and fast ing; in none of which is there any room for disagreement, nor have any differences concerning them been heard of or reported from the Imams of Sacred Law. Everything in this is termed unquestionable as evidence.

• ·         Forbidden Knowledge includes natural sciences, anything that sows doubts in Islam, philosophy (a7.2)

Unlawful knowledge includes:

(1) learning soreery (dis: p3), since according to the most reliable position, it is unlaw ful, as the vast majority of scholars have decisively stated;

(2) philosophy (dis: wlO);

(3) magic (sha'badha, meaning sleight of hand, etc,);

(4) astrology (dis: p41);

(5) the sciences of the materialists (dis: wII);

(6) and anything that is a means to create doubts (n: in eternal truths). Such things vary in their degree of unlawfulness.

• ·         Almost all books would be banned (a7.3-4)

Offensive knowledge includes such thing;, as post-classical poetry which contains romance and uselessness.

 Permissible knowledge includes post classical poetry which does not contain stupidity or anything that is offensive. incites to evil, hin ders from good; nor yet that which urges one to do good or helps one to do it (n: as the latter would be recommended) (ibid .. 1.27).

 ·         Circumcision of women is obligatory (e4.3)

Circumcision is obligatory (0: for both men and women. For men it consists of removing the prepuce from the penis, and for women, removing the prepuce (Ar. bazr) of the clitoris (n: not the clitoris itself, as some mistakenly assert). (A: Hanbalis hold that circumcision of women is not obligatory but sunna, while Hanafis consider it a mere courtesy to the husband.)

 ·         Marriage to prepubescent girls (e10.2-3).

If sperm or man-ay or if fluid seen, man or women was seen in clothes or bed coverings, if someone is sleeping in the bed, if it was from them they must wash. If each one of them thought the fluid come from the other person since they do not know where it is from then they do not have to wash.  And no one of them will be guided by the other because they thought the fluid belonged to the other but if no one else slept in the bed he must wash and he must repeat all the prayers.

When a woman who has been made love to performs the purificatory bath, and the male's sperm afterwards leaves her vagina, then she must repeat the ghusl if two conditions exist:

 (a) that she is not a child, but rather old enough to have sexual gratification (A: as it might otherwise be solely her husband's sperm);

 (b) and that she was fulfilling her sexual urge with the lovemaking, not sleeping or forced.

 ·         Financing Jihad (terrorism) is required (h8.7)

It is obligatory to distribute one's zakat among eight categories of recipients (0: meaning that zakat goes to none besides them), one"eighth of the zakat to each category.

o   The poor (h8.8)

o   People short of money (h8.11)

o   Zakat workers (h8.13)

o   Bribing people to become Muslim (h8.14)

o   Buying a Slave’s freedom (h8.15)

o   Those in debt (h8.16)

o   Those waging war for Allah (h8.17)

o   Travelers in need of money (h8.18)

 ·         Slavery, sex slavery, multiple owners of a single slave (Book K Trade) .

• ·         First cousin marriage is accepted in Islam. (m6.0-2)

o   What you can not marry

o   (H: It is forbidden for a man to marry his roots, descendants, the descendants of his parents, and the first generation of descendants of his grandfathers and grandmothers (his aunts and maternal aunts). A mahram is one whom it is forbidden to marry with certainty.)

 

It is forbidden by the meaning of  committing sin, marriage to one’s mother, maternal grandmothers or paternal grandmothers, no matter how high they are, daughters, daughters of sons, no matter how low they are, sisters, daughters of brothers and sisters, no matter how low they are, paternal aunts, no matter how high they are, the wife’s mother and grandmother, the wives of his fathers and his sons: all of these are forbidden by virtue of the contract. And the mother of his wife’s daughter is not forbidden except by consummation with the mother.

 As you can see Tyler’s lack of knowledge of Islamic law, accompanied by her desire to defend it, is cause for alarm. I have only mentioned a few things. What about the acceptance of forced marriage? Under shariah a woman’s silence is her consent to marriage. Would Amanda Tyler accept this and the laws above as being in agreement with the US Constitution?

Do Baptists across America believe that accepting these laws into America is appositive move? After all, she represents their beliefs. Sadly, Amanda Tyler went to display her expertise on “separation of church and state” something that exists in the Communist manifesto and not in the US Constitution. Her expert witness testimony in print is below.

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/tyler-testimony_0.pdf

I challenge Ms. Amanda Tyler, to debate her own claims of knowledge and expertise on shariah.