Muslim American groups say Republicans are weaponizing congressional hearings

WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - Muslim ​American groups said congressional hearings that Republican lawmakers cast as aimed at making the U.S. "sharia-free" ‌are being weaponized against Muslim minorities in the United States by stoking fear against them. Republicans, who hold a majority in both chambers of Congress, titled a Wednesday hearing by a House Judiciary Subcommittee as "Sharia-Free America: Why Political Islam and ​Sharia Law are Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution." A similar hearing was also held in February. "The ​radicals pushing political Islam do not want to coexist with America's culture and ⁠political order. They want to replace it,"...