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Posted on 05/12/2026 9:39:04 PM PDT by JeepersFreepers
The husband of the organizer behind a now-canceled “Muslim-only” event at a taxpayer-owned North Texas waterpark is accusing Gov. Greg Abbott of fueling “hatred” after city officials canceled the gathering amid statewide backlash. The governor had threatened to pull $530,000 in state grant funding over the event.
Muhammad Abdullah, whose wife Dr. Aminah Knight organized the annual Eid celebration at Epic Waters Indoor Waterpark in Grand Prairie, posted a video on Instagram criticizing Abbott and other Republican officials following the event’s cancellation.
“The governor of Texas is attacking my family, and I’m sick of it,” Abdullah said in the video. “Greg Abbott forced the city of Grand Prairie to cancel our Eid event at Epic Waters.”
Abdullah claimed the event had been mischaracterized by critics after an online flyer described the gathering as a “Muslim-only” event. He said organizers later changed the wording to “modest dress only” to clarify the intent.
“We never banned other religions,” Abdullah said. “Then the Islamophobes got a hold of a private flyer and twisted it into something it was never meant to be.”
Despite those claims, Abdullah’s own video displayed the original promotional flyer describing the gathering as a “Muslim Only Event” before organizers later changed the wording online.
The controversy escalated after Abbott publicly condemned the event and warned the city could lose state funding if it proceeded.
“To be clear, Sharia law is not allowed in Texas. Nor are Sharia cities. Nor are ‘no go zones’ which this event seems to imply,” Abbott wrote on X last week. “The City of Grand Prairie and Epic Waters must immediately cancel this event and prohibit any such future events. Failure to do so will trigger the loss of state funds.”
Abbott also stated that religious discrimination violates Texas law.
The city later announced the event had been canceled “after further review and in the best interest of the City of Grand Prairie.”
In an interview with BlazeTV and Texas Scorecard host Sara Gonzales following the controversy, Knight acknowledged the goal was to create a gathering specifically for Muslims.
Knight stated that after an earlier public event at the waterpark, members of the Muslim community requested “a day where the water park was rented out and it was just Muslims at the water park.”
She also defended the concept by arguing that “marginalized groups” sometimes need spaces exclusively for their own communities.
During the interview, Gonzales repeatedly questioned how a religiously exclusive event at a publicly owned facility differed from other forms of prohibited discrimination. Knight responded that she “didn’t think anything was wrong with that.”
Abdullah said his family has received harassment and threats since the controversy erupted, but vowed to continue speaking out against Republican officials who criticized the event.
“But hear me clearly,” Abdullah said. “I’m not gonna back down.”
“I’m taking these bigoted, hate filled politicians down.”
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Is Abdullah making a threat? What does he mean by "taking down"?
Click here to view the one minute video of Abdullah's lashing out at Gov. Abbott and others for cancelling the Muslim-Only event.
Must click here and watch a couple of minutes to see and hear Dr. Aminah Knight, the organizer of the event. She appears to have the same degree as Dr. Jill.
She gonna put on a suicide vest, behead some pre-schoolers?
We’ve got to making “lashing out” the number one reason for tossing refugee illegal aliens out of our country. If the bass turds want to “lash out”, they need to go home and do it. We don’t need all their whining and tantrums.
Taqiyya......
I already hate Muslims. I don’t need to be fueled to hate them more.
Having seen the pics of the dress code, I’m sad that Muslim women won’t have their chance to swim in fashionable potato sacks.
Muslim Abdullah making threats against politicians in office is a serious crime in the United States, punishable as a felony under federal and state laws.
Both physical and verbal threats are criminalized, with potential penalties including substantial fines and imprisonment, often up to 10 years for threatening federal officials.
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Message: Muslim Abdullah making threats against politicians in office is a serious crime in the United States, punishable as a felony under federal and state laws.
Both physical and verbal threats are criminalized, with potential penalties including substantial fines and imprisonment, often up to 10 years for threatening federal officials.
It’s city owned. Imagine if they tried to have a “Baptists only” day, no Moslems allowed.
There are too many of them in Texas now. Bush, Perry and Abbot are the classic “capitalists selling the role intended to be used to hang them”.
Texas Repubs have destroyed old Texas and invited in too many Indians, Moslems, New Yorkers and Californians...
If they want to rent a water park for a day, they should find one not funded by taxpayers. Why do they not just drop the idea? It’s not as though the Muslim women will be allowed to forego their burkas either way.
If muzzies go to a waterpark it will have to be closed for weeks afterwards to flush and disinfect it and replaced the water filters.
“Organizer of Texas ‘Muslim only’ waterpark event runs a misspelled ‘Learing Center’ childcare org”
“We never banned other religions,”
Really? What does MUSLIM ONLY mean dirtbag?
Comment necessary?
Regards,
wah.
Following the Reconquista culminating in 1492, Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella issued the Alhambra Decree and subsequent edicts. The remaining Muslim population (Moriscos) was forced to either convert to Catholicism or face total expulsion.
Under Arab rule, Sicily possessed a massive Muslim majority. After the Norman conquest of the island, subsequent rulers slowly pressured the Muslim population through targeted taxation, conflict, and eventual forced relocations. By the 13th century, remaining populations were forcibly converted or expelled under Frederick II.
Following Ivan the Terrible’s conquest of the Muslim Khanate of Kazan in 1552, the Russian state implemented aggressive policies to Christianize the region. This included destroying mosques, offering tax incentives for baptisms, and executing forced conversions of Muslim Tatars.
During the late 17th century, the Habsburg Empire rolled back Ottoman rule in Central Europe. Regions in Hungary, Croatia, and Slavonia that had acquired significant Muslim populations or ruling classes were rapidly systematically Christianized through forced expulsions or mandatory baptisms.
We should learn from this.
Ditto
Sure sounds like a threat to me.
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