The Lone Star Stronghold: How Islam Built Its American Capital in Texas

The state of Texas has taken a decisive step that cuts through years of hesitation at other levels of government. Governor Greg Abbott’s November 2025 designation of the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations does more than send a signal. It recognizes a documented reality. Radical Islamism has constructed its most extensive and financially potent infrastructure in the United States inside Texas, concentrated in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston corridors. These networks, tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas financing precedents, Salafist, Deobandi, Khomeinist, and other supremacist currents, exercise disproportionate control over Islamic institutions, charities,...