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Sharia at 44:36: How a 2013 Satire Article Became a Sitting Senator’s Fact
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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…
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