Congressman Chip Roy challenges CAIR, warns of Islamist threat in US

Congressman Chip Roy challenges CAIR, warns of Islamist threat in US

Texas Republican Congressman Chip Roy delivered a forceful speech warning that Islamist ideology, not Islam as a faith, poses a growing and organized threat to American constitutional order, drawing an immediate backlash from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Speaking on the House floor, Roy argued that the danger comes from a well-funded political movement that rejects assimilation and seeks to impose Sharia law, stressing that …