3 Months In: Is Texas Winning the War Against Islamization?
In November, a “WarRoom” clip exposed two Sharia courts in Texas, operating for years and handling hundreds of cases.
While legal if both parties agree, Muslim women often face strong pressure to use Sharia courts over county courts. Under strict Sharia, women inherit less, divorce is difficult, and testimony counts for less. Refusal can lead to honor-based abuse—shaming, threats, beatings, or rarely, “honor killings.”
Texas sees hundreds of unreported cases annually. For many women, signing is survival, not consent. On Nov. 19, Gov. Greg Abbott called for investigations. Three months later, and there have been no charges. Arbitrations continue quietly, and no woman has spoken out.
Fear keeps these stories hidden.
On Nov. 18, Abbott became the first governor to label the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist groups.
The move blocks them from buying land, state funds, or public contracts. Cy-Fair ISD cut ties, nonprofits halted grants, and CAIR sued for defamation. On Jan. 28, Abbott asked Attorney General Ken Paxton to revoke their nonprofit status. The groups are still active, and while the crackdown is real, it has mostly been symbolic so far.
The East Plano Islamic Center’s 400-acre housing project, now called “The Meadow,” faced a fraud lawsuit on Dec. 5. Construction has stopped, but developers continue to submit plans. The project is currently stalled, but it could start again if the lawsuit is unsuccessful or takes a long time to resolve.
The issue spread beyond Texas.
On Dec. 9, Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis gave CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood the same terrorist label. CAIR sued. Nationally, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Nov. 24 against Brotherhood chapters.
On Jan.13, the Treasury and State Department targeted Muslim Brotherhood branches in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, freezing assets and criminalizing support.
Texas now has federal support but no nationwide Sharia ban.
In Congress, Texas Republican Reps. Chip Roy and Keith Self launched the Sharia-Free America Caucus on Dec. 18. It now has 35 members from 18 states, including Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. The caucus is working on bills to limit immigration for people who follow Sharia and to deport those considered security risks. At a press conference on Feb. 4, Texas was called “ground zero.”
No laws have passed yet, but support is increasing as the midterms approach. --->READ MORE HERE
Rep. Chip Roy calls out growth of Islam in Texas during Sharia law hearing
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy attacked Texas's Muslim population during a congressional hearing Tuesday on Islam's moral system known as Sharia, saying many of those residents, "likely harbor support for Sharia's tenets"
Sharia law has become a focal point of Roy and other Texas Republicans, including Gov. Greg Abbott, in the run up to the March GOP primaries. They warn Islamic groups want to impose their way of life on other Americans as their population in Texas and other states grows, despite little evidence they are actually trying to do so.
"There's a movement across the United States that seeks to other throw the legal system and our constitution to replace it with a foreign legal system that upends our American way of life," Roy said. "One can make the claim not all devotees agree or enforce with Sharia, but no one can deny the increase in Muslim observers in Texas, many of whom likely harbor support Sharia's tenets."
Sharia is the moral code by which many Muslims live, laying out a broad set of principles and practices like how to pray and what is an appropriate diet. In some Islamic communities sharia courts operate to resolve civil matters like divorce and child custody.
During the hearing Roy targeted groups including the East Plano Islamic Center, a North Texas mosque that is planning to build an Islamic housing development, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a non-profit Abbott designated a terrorist organization. Roy pointed out the Qatari government had helped fund Arabic language programs in school districts in Houston and Austin, as well as delivering more than $197 million in research funding to Texas A&M University.
The hearing drew condemnation from Muslim groups, with Robert McCaw, director of government affairs at CAIR, equating GOP's criticism to "what was once said about Catholics and other minorities in our nation."
"Calls for the ‘destruction’ of all mainstream Muslims also mirror the dangerous rhetoric that the Nazi Party weaponized against German Jews and other minorities in the years leading up to the Holocaust," he said.
CAIR has denied any ties to terrorism and is suing Abbott over his designation, which the group says is unconstitutional. --->READ MORE HERE
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