Muslims Are Coming to Texas to Show Us What a 'True Follower of Jesus' Looks Like

Why are we funding the eradication of Christianity with taxpayer money? Is this really what the Founding Fathers intended?

Be very strong, then, to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you may not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you will not go along with these nations, these which remain among you, and you will not mention the name of their gods, and you will not make anyone swear by them, and you will not serve them, and you will not bow down to them. But you are to cling to Yahweh your God, as you have done to this day.

Joshua 23:6-8

Never in a million years did I believe relocating my family to North Texas would land us in the thick of a unprecedented, heavily funded effort to subvert what most Americans would call Islamic colonialism.

And yet here we are.

Part of my work as a journalist is to document the massive demographic changes taking place in North Texas, once known as the buckle of the Bible Belt, where mega-mosque compounds are being planned in multiple locations in and around the DFW metroplex.

And I can tell you that, in just the less than twelve weeks of 2025, there has been an explosion of announcements of Islamic developments, mosques and other jihadist ventures here in NTX.

By now, most of you are likely aware of the most controversial of these announcements: an initiative to build a 400-acre Islam-centered faith and residential estate in a rural community outside Josephine, Texas, which I covered here.

Most of my readers surely have heard about the proposed development in rural northeast Texas known as “EPIC City” - EPIC standing for the East Plano Islamic Center located just north of Dallas. It’s a shocking proposal to build a Muslim-only community - complete with mosque, shopping centers and townhomes - on 400 acres of land in the buckle of the Bible Belt.

This is no ordinary multi-family development.

This is, as currently envisioned, a city within a city.

Notice the lush green landscapes of the proposed development. Such a stark contrast to the dry, lifeless desert regions of Saudi Arabia, where Yasir Qadhi, the Houston—based Islamic teacher and religious leader behind the EPIC development, went for his religious studies before heading back to the States.

Thankfully, Gov. Greg Abbott appears, for now at least, to be responding accordingly.

That’s all well and good, but sadly, it’s not the only threat facing our Republic.

In addition, there are at least four other similar developments at various stages of approval in North Texas, which until just a couple of years ago, was almost exclusively and undeniable Christian in both population and tradition.

No more.

Now Qadhi is assuring his fellow Muslims that they will soon teach Christians what it means to be a “true follower of Jesus.”

Here’s what Qadhi told his followers in a message at EPIC marking the end of the Islamic holiday, Ramadan:

“They claim that they're following the prophets of God and Jesus, but we are the true followers of Jesus and Muhammad…We will show them what it means to be the followers of the prophets, and we will do so through our dignity, through our courage, through our manners, through our honesty. We will demonstrate for them what it means to be believers in God, and when we do so…everybody of pure conscience will see who is spreading lies and who is speaking the truth.”

For context, in the Koran, Christians and Jews (“the people of the Book”) are accused of corrupting divine revelation, and those who don’t convert to Islam are to be fought and subjugated.

Meanwhile, these idolaters worship a black cube which dates back to the pre-Islamic era and is rumored to contain some sort of idol within it. We’re told they kiss the cube, they prostrate before it - but they definitely, for sure don’t worship it.

After doing some further research, it turns out “Qadhi” is actually an Arabic word for “judge” - specifically, one who “interprets and applies Islamic law (Sharia) in legal matters.”¹ Which means this Yasir fellow views himself as a literal Sharia judge.

Wonderful.

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‘Religious freedom’ for Islam, not Christianity

Imagine the response you would get if you went to, say, Saudi Arabia, and started telling Muslims you were going to teach them “true” Islam, that they were simply misled and that you were there to correct their errant theology.

If you did that, chances are you would be prosecuted for blasphemy.

In Texas, we welcome it under the banner of “religious liberty.”

It may surprise you (or not) to learn that in Saudi Arabia, where the “Texan native” Yasir studied Islamic law, there are zero churches allowed.

Let me say that again: there are no official churches recognized in the entire kingdom of Saudi Arabia. None.

Yet folks like Yasir are allowed to import their teachings to “Western” - which is merely another PC colloquialism for nations of European Christian origin - countries in Europe and the U.S., including here in Texas, where in just Houston alone, there are more than 130 mosques, making it the area with the largest Muslim population in the South.

Despite this effort to promote Islam in the state of Texas, it’s noteworthy that, to date, not one prominent member of the Muslim community in the Lone Star State has spoken out against the very notion of a Sharia-dominated enclave in the heart of Texas.

Not one.

This is the weakness of modern Evangelicalism. This is the fruit of decades of apostasy and deconstructionism in the American Christian community. This is the situation we find ourselves in. And it’s the situation we deserve.

It’s not like we’re ignorant to all of this. We know how this goes.

Here’s what this looks like in other countries in the Middle East.

False religions like Islam and Hinduism rely almost exclusively on demographics and foreign financial support to grow their movements. It’s the reason Hindus in North Texas raise money overseas to fund their idolatrous and cultish gatherings in the U.S.

It’s why the Holy Land Foundation, formerly the largest Islamic charity in the United States, was headquartered in Richardson, Texas, before its leaders were convicted of providing material support to Hamas.

It’s why apostate laws are central to the growth of Islam. If one is afforded the right to speak about Islam as one sees fit - or what we Americans call our God-given right to freedom of speech - than the “religion of peace” would be exposed for what it is: a political movement disguised as a religion.

In fact, this is what they do to apostates in Saudi Arabia.

If Islam had any merit, any legitimate appeal to truth, it would have no need for apostasy laws. No need to decapitate those who deny the faith.

False religions can only flourish in the U.S. because of our Constitution - a stark reality, we’re told, that is simply the price we pay for living in a free society.

Except, is that really the case?

Why do we allow other religions/races which forbid the free exercise of religion in their own lands to come to the USA and exercise "religious liberty"?

Can anyone really make a coherent argument that doing so is what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they ratified the First Amendment? Or even what the Boomers in Congress believed when they passed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965? Just so pagan terrorists can come here, flourish, and ultimately threaten our faith and our way of life through demographic change?

And we’re supposed to pretend not to notice that, as the number of people who identify as white Americans dwindles, oh by the way, so does Christianity grow closer to becoming a minority faith. What a shocking coincidence.

See, false religions like Islam have to accomplish this through works of the flesh because they have no spiritual life in them.

There’s no evangelism.

No battle for truth.

No engaging the culture.

Only raw demographics and foreign slush funds and increasingly vapid cries of "racism.” That’s why folks like Yasir are begging Muslims to come to American and live in his “diverse” enclave.

So they come here legally in large numbers, buy up land and real estate and set up what soon become essentially “Muslim-only” neighborhoods like this one outside Dallas, and all of sudden, we’re looking at an inter-generational threat to the Christian faith - all under the guise of a form of “religious freedom” that resembles little of what even non-Christians like Thomas Jefferson had in mind.

Why are we enabling the eradication of Christianity? Who is doing this?

If you still don’t get how this works, take a look at former Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and his wife compared to the current leadership of Syria.

You might be surprised to learn that the state of Israel took credit in part for Assad’s fall.

That’s right. The state of Israel. You know, “America’ bestie.” They helped prop up an Islamic leader who, we can only assume, will not hold Christians in high esteem.

Assad’s human rights record aside, it’s clear there wasn’t just a religious component to his overthrow, but a racial one.

Deracination, not democratization.

Subjugation, not assimilation.

This is why they’re here.

They’re not here to convince you to “accept Islam.”

They’re not here to promote “diversity” or “inclusivity.”

They’re here to conquer. They’re here to colonize.

And they’re here to do it not with bombs and guns - at least not yet - but the only way they can at the moment, which is by invitation, not invasion.

Over the last 70 years, we’ve let countless nations into our country and nearly all of them have sought to destroy it.

What does that say about the universal gospel?

Shouldn’t this flood of unchecked immigration be the greatest opportunity for the Gospel to go forth? And yet, that’s not at all how even most mainline churches see it.

I’ve often wondered how the so-called “Church age” would wrap up. How, after being a light to the nations for 2,000 years, the entity the world knows as Christianity could suddenly lose its influence and its power - politically and spiritually - after “turning the world upside down.”²

Now, I’m convinced it is through the absolute dilution of not just the Gospel, but of sound doctrine, of historical Biblical truth that has been subverted and exploited not by satanic forces, but by those who name the name of Christ.

Those who say to Him “Lord, Lord” and do not do the things He has said to do.

You see, Joshua knew nothing about the contemporary American notion of religious liberty. His words to the people of Israel were fairly straightforward:

This is what religious freedom means to the God of Israel. Note the five “you will not” commands in the above verse.

• Don’t “go along” with nations who worship foreign gods;

• Don’t mention the name of their gods, not even in passing;

• Don’t invoke the names of their gods in any oath;

• Don’t serve - or what we call “minister” - to them in any way; and

• Don’t bow down, whether in worship or submission, before such foreign gods.

All of these principles are reiterations from throughout the Law of Moses, who repeatedly warned the people of God to stay away from foreign gods and those who worshipped them - a warning Israel repeatedly failed to heed.³

Christianity is not merely about morality. It’s not just about keeping your hand out of the cookie jar of sin. Of course, we should strive to live holy lives in the power of the Spirit, but ultimately He has taken care of all that.

It’s so much more than that.

No, the battle before us - the one we are currently losing - is the battle for holy truth revealed from the Person of truth Himself. For what the Christian faith actually is. Centuries ago, it was esteemed as central to the American way of life.

Today, it’s being trampled under foot by idolaters and weak men who refuse to defend their King.

Lord, help us.

1. https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/hs-world-religions/qadi

2. Acts 17:6

3. Deuteronomy 9:16; Exodus 32:8; Judges 2:12; Jeremiah 11:10