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Across Texas, something deeply troubling is taking shape — a quiet but deliberate transformation of our communities, institutions, and values under the guise of “religious freedom.” What’s happening isn’t random. It’s not isolated. It’s part of a calculated strategy that’s now impossible to ignore — a strategy that uses America’s own Constitution as a weapon.

The most glaring example? A 402-acre master plan near Josephine, Texas, known as EPIC City. Marketed as a peaceful, self-sustained Muslim community, its design is far more ambitious: a mosque, school system, senior housing, a college, commercial centers — even law offices that align with Islamic legal doctrine. Over a thousand homes, all structured under the banner of a singular religious identity. The project’s ideological architect, Yasir Qadhi — a name familiar to many of us who have long warned about his agenda — is openly calling it “EPIC 1.0” and “2.0” with the goal of making this model replicable across North America.

This isn’t just about real estate. It’s about parallel governance. And they’re not hiding it anymore.

During a recent segment on Brannon Howse Live, we examined footage of Islamic schools in Texas that teach skewed geopolitical narratives, including maps that effectively erase Israel, labeling the entire region “Palestine.” Boys and girls separated. Hijabs mandatory. And the teachings go far beyond religion — they push a worldview that prioritizes Islamic law, Sharia, over American principles.

While they build, they also infiltrate — demanding curriculum changes in public schools, fighting for Islamic holidays in school calendars, and even leveraging county and city officials, including the mayor of Plano, to normalize this takeover as “interfaith collaboration.” But this isn’t about faith. It’s about power.

Let’s be brutally honest: Islamists are using our freedoms to gain control and silence resistance. Free speech? They weaponize it to promote intolerance under the banner of tolerance. Freedom of religion? They invoke it to demand special privileges — while marginalizing every other belief system that doesn’t align. And anyone who speaks up? Labeled “Islamophobic,” smeared, threatened, even hunted.

They know exactly what they’re doing. As I said in the interview — and I stand by it — they are using the First Amendment to destroy the First Amendment. It’s a tactic of patience, discipline, and long-term infiltration. As Dr. Bill Warner has often said, Islam teaches its followers to play the long game. And they are.

And the silence? It’s deafening. In fact, it’s worse than silence — it’s complicity. Some of the biggest enablers of this movement are not progressives, but apostate Christians. Institutions like the Southern Baptist Convention have filed legal briefs to defend mosque-building initiatives in places like New Jersey and Tennessee. They push “interfaith dialogue,” oblivious or unwilling to recognize that while they open their arms, they’re welcoming a movement that seeks to replace the very freedoms allowing them to exist.

I lived in Dallas for most of 2023. I saw it with my own eyes — Islamic schools, law centers, and cultural enclaves growing block by block. This didn’t start yesterday. It’s been going on for over a decade, largely unnoticed, while Americans were told to “respect diversity” and “coexist.”

Now the movement is turning bold. Bolder than ever. With over 260 Sharia-aligned Muslims already elected to office in this country — and projections showing that number will climb toward 300 by 2026 — we’re facing something far more dangerous than just “cultural differences.” This is political Islam. Organized. Funded. Protected by lawfare. And it will not stop at Texas.

Tennessee is next. Florida’s on the list. And the reason they’re growing in those areas is simple: affordability, low regulation, and the tragic gullibility of well-meaning but uninformed Americans who still think “this could never happen here.”

Well, it is happening here.

This is not fearmongering. This is not about Muslims peacefully practicing their religion. This is about an Islamist ideology that seeks to replace the Constitution with a system that is the antithesis of liberty. And they’re not hiding that goal. They are telling us. They are writing it. They are building it.

We must stop pretending that silence equals peace. It doesn’t. It equals surrender.

Our laws already prohibit the practice of foreign legal systems like Sharia in U.S. jurisdictions. But laws mean nothing if no one enforces them — and right now, we’re facing a political class more concerned with being liked than being right. Tweets won’t save Texas. Hashtags won’t save America. Action will.

Let me leave you with this: if we do not defend our freedoms, someone else will use them to destroy us. And they’re already doing it — brick by brick, law by law, child by child. The Trojan horse is already inside the gates.