A guest identified on-air as Sen. Tim Sheehy said the United States "now has Sharia law," naming Dearborn, Michigan.

We rate that false — truth score 0.12, confidence 0.90 — and trace the claim's most durable detail back to a 2013 satire site.

On the August 4, 2026 episode of The Benny Show, the segment opens with real footage: Nick Shirley chased and threatened with a knife in Ceuta, Spain, and provocateur Jake Lang assaulted at an Arbaeen procession in Dearborn (one arrest announced August 3). Neither is a legal finding about any American jurisdiction. Both are offered as evidence for one.

We steelman the claim first. Voluntary religious arbitration is real and enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act — identically for Muslims, Orthodox Jews and Christians. Trial courts sometimes get religious-belief questions wrong; S.D. ...