Posted on 06/19/2025 4:48:35 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
A year and a half ago I moved my family from California, where I had spent my entire adult life, to Texas. We left for the same reason as hundreds of thousands of other people in recent years: the state that should be paradise on earth had become, thanks to Democrat mismanagement – intentional, some might say – a Third World cesspit where a middle-class lifestyle was affordable only for the wealthy. My wife and I chose Texas for a variety of reasons; we knew it wasn’t paradise either, but it was definitely higher ground. Now I’m beginning to wonder if we were wrong about that.
Earlier this month I, along with something like a thousand others, had been registered to attend a three-day event just outside Dallas called the Israel Summit, featuring a full lineup of notable Jewish and Christian advocates for Israel and organized by a media initiative called the Israel Guys. The venue for the event was a public space but armed security was in place and the location was kept under wraps as long as possible.
Nonetheless, a mere few days before the summit, the organizers announced that a change of venue had been forced by current events:
After the devastating attack that left two Jewish-Israelis dead in Washington D.C. two weeks ago, the security establishment in Texas began analyzing the Israel Summit…
After several days of working with law enforcement, intelligence, the governor’s office, and other political and local leaders in Texas, it became clear that we would not be able to have the Israel Summit at the original venue.
Pastor George and Terri Pearsons from Eagle Mountain International Church, a much more private location about 35 miles farther away, offered their state-of-the-art facility instead, so the event was back on. Organizers assured event-goers that they were “working with some of the best private security in America, as well as local law enforcement to ensure that this event will be completely safe.”
Shortly thereafter, however, the event was postponed indefinitely altogether due to “jihadist threats.” They must have been serious and credible enough to shut things down despite the topnotch security and more isolated venue. The fact that a gathering as innocuous as a networking event of Jews and Christian Zionists in rural Texas could draw credible, violent, Islamist threats is eyebrow-raising – until you realize just how widespread the Islamist infiltration of the Lone Star State has been.
You may recall that it was in Garland, Texas – only about a 20-minute drive northeast of Dallas – that my Freedom Center colleague Robert Spencer and frequent Center cartoonist Bosch Fawstin were among the targets of a jihadist attack, almost exactly ten years ago, at an event awarding Fawstin first prize in a free speech contest. Fawstin had dared draw Muhammad in defiance of the fundamentalist injunction against representations of the Muslim prophet, a “blasphemy” for which the entire office of the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine was slaughtered four months earlier in Paris. Two heavily armed jihadists were taken out by Garland law enforcement before that massacre could be reenacted on Texas soil.
Texans, or at least Texas legislators, apparently didn’t take that lesson seriously enough, because in the intervening decade Islam has accelerated making inroads into the state Americans associate with a red-blooded, all-American, gun-slingin’, freedom-loving, cowboy attitude. “Don’t Mess With Texas,” as the slogan goes. But the times they are a-changin’.
Earlier this year, for example, Texas lawmakers oddly adopted a resolution, authored by Muslim Democrat Rep. Suleman Lalani, to establish March 23 as “Pakistan Day” honoring the state’s estimated 80,000 Pakistani inhabitants and “promoting diversity, inclusion, education, and the appreciation of Pakistani culture.” That day was chosen to commemorate the 1940 Lahore Resolution calling for independent Muslim states in British India. As FrontPage Mag’s Daniel Greenfield notes, in the aftermath of that resolution came
massacres of Hindus and other non-Muslims to ensure that as many areas as possible could be incorporated into the new Islamist entity.
This was followed by the Muslim League’s Direct Action Day or the Week of the Long Knives in which Muslims declared a Jihad and killed tens of thousands of people. In Calcutta, 4,000 Hindus fell to brutal Muslim violence.
Not what I would call a stellar example of diversity and inclusion. The resolution was down-voted by only a handful of Texas representatives, one of whom stated for the record that she stood with “the persecuted Christians of Pakistan” and another who rightly noted that it did not reflect the priorities of his constituents; the majority of Texas legislators, however, apparently were eager to court Muslim votes.
As for educating Texans to appreciate Pakistani culture, maybe what they really need to appreciate is the lesson Western Europeans are learning the hard way: that Islamic imperialism is “fundamentally transforming,” as Barack Obama might put it, the continent through demographic change and the gradual aggrandizement of political power.
Texans may wake up one day to find that merely telling oneself “it can’t happen here” isn’t enough. Planned Islamic communities are sprouting up all over the state – most notoriously one called EPIC City (after the East Plano Islamic Center), a $100 million, 402-acre, “Sharia-centric complex boasting 1,000 homes, a 3,200-capacity mosque, Islamic schools, clinics, and senior living, all revolving around the teachings of one of the most radical Islamic preachers in North America: Dr. Yasir Qadhi,” as FrontPage Mag’s Aynaz Anni Cyrus wrote.
That project has been stalled by Texas governor Greg Abbott, who launched investigations into EPIC City and declared that the state will allow no “sharia cities” or no-go zones, referring to reasonable concerns that such communities are future enclaves of parallel governance similar to those which are corroding major Western European cities from Paris to Stockholm.
Religion of Piece
Take apart & destroy civilization, piece by piece.
Sure would be nice for Texas to be like it used to be. More worried about Texas, and then the nation, then it was about Israel, or any breed of musloid goat humper. And then of course, the Hindus and Chinamen and New Yorkers are flooding in also. If you’re in Texas, you need to worry about Texas FIRST before ANY of those foreign ideologies.
“ Earlier this month I, along with something like a thousand others, had been registered to attend…”
What’s with the passive voice.
CA residents are gradually returning to sanity. A lot of MAGA voters might get what we all want in CA.
Yeah, that’s not exactly Texan vernacular.
Makes it sound like he didn’t attend of his own accord or something, he just magically appeared on a list.
Abbott has always seemed squishy...
At least from a distance...
The muslims in TX are the tip of the conquest spear...
Only deporting them or moving them to some welcoming place like MN, CA, or NY will prevent the growth of that cancerous lesion in TX...
There is no reason for an “investigation”...
There is reason for immediate & permanent “action”...
It might be some kind of royalty thing… You know, like how the queen says we when she means herself. I just know if you would’ve spoken that way and the school I went to in Texas you may have gotten your butt whipped.
Newsom drove California into texas
“Makes it sound like he didn’t attend of his own accord...”
He did not go in his own Accord, he went in his wife’s Subaru.
As I said elsewhere, Muslims will slyly insert themselves in lower-ranked politician positions. They will silence any objections by shouting “diversity” and “—phobia”. Liberals vote for them out of some misguided feeling of white guilt. Ballot fraud does the rest.
Soon they become councilmen and commissioners, then mayors, representatives, and Senators. It doesn’t take long to destroy a city and soon afterwards a state.
A Muslim socialist has a good chance of being the next mayor of NYC. Between people actually voting for him and election fraud, it may just happen. Look at London and many other cities in the UK. That is where we are headed if we don’t put a stop to it.
Not that long ago, Colorado wasn’t a lib paradise either. Same camel has his nose under the Texas tent.
“Abbot !!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Gov Abbott is encouraging Islam,that and the now liberal Texas Congress. Many of us are sounding the alarm, but no politico from the very top to the bottom cares because they have the Muslim vote. We’re on our own.
Yup. I’ve also been hearing about this Islamic city taking shape near Plano. And then there’s this infestation of RINOs in the Texas legislature. Not what I was expecting when I moved here a few years ago. But I guess there’s nowhere in the US you can go to completely escape the ravages of Leftism. At least TX hasn’t completely been overrun like CA.
Very true. I spent some time in Colorado in 2014, went back last year and it was shocking how much different it was. On Colfax Street downtown Denver, everything was boarded up with plywood like a hurricane was coming, and there were so many weed addled addicts sleeping on the sidewalk it looks like the aftermath of a shoot out.
Oh and the whole place is run by women and Homo’s. I might stand corrected, but I’m pretty sure the entire state legislature and Senate is the super majority now for the communists.
Religion of Pieces
Gov Abbott is no squish-he was our AG before he was gov-he is all about sticking to the letter of the law even when he pushes the envelope so he won’t get overruled by some rogue court/judge. He put the legal hex on that planned private restricted muslim enclave already-it will not be happening as they wanted...
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