cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/70206388
“I won’t rest until every Muslim is gone,” Bo French, the Republican nominee for Texas railroad commissioner, wrote on social media in June 2026. Since late 2025, Texas officials have investigated plans for a Muslim-friendly housing development outside Dallas, as well as a small Dallas organization that offers religious divorce counseling. Gov. Greg Abbott also designated the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the country’s largest Muslim civil rights group, a foreign terrorist organization under Texas law.
In May 2026 Abbott threatened to pull US$530,000 in state funding from Grand Prairie unless the city canceled a private Eid celebration at a water park. He also threatened to withhold funding from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport unless it dropped plans for ablution stations, the washing facilities Muslims use before prayer.
State Rep. Alan Schoolcraft, a Republican helping lead the “Sharia Free Texas Caucus,” has framed the distinction explicitly. He told the Houston Chronicle that his concern “has nothing to do with faith, with religion,” but rather with “cultural differences, refusing to assimilate, and trying to establish a parallel culture.”
He has also said lawmakers intend to try to define what qualifies as a religion, arguing that Islam is “much more than a religion.” He has not explained where the line between Islam as religion and Islam as culture or politics would fall, or which Muslim practices would lose the protections ordinarily afforded to religious exercise.
I hate religion, but I hate bigotry even more.
There are ~2 billion muslims on earth, any beef you have with Islam is just beef you have with humanity itself.
2 billion is a number of people multiple orders of magnitude too large to make any sort of meaningful generalization about.
Bigotry, being explicitly an ideology of reductianism and simplification though attempts to disprove that by making a large chunk of earth’s population hateful in the same boring, dumb, incurious way.
Every bigot is in their heart the same bigot, even if one particular bigot is bigoted against another, doesn’t matter, they have the same rotten heart irregardless.
I only disagree in the sense that any problem I have with religious people I have with all religious people, and that’s true. lol. That said, I also believe they have the right to be religious, so not like I want to take away their rights. :)
And damn straight. I try to be hateful in new, exciting ways! :)
