Chapter 1: What bill did Governor Abbott sign regarding Sharia law in Texas?
Governor Abbott signed a bill banning Sharia law, the legislation created after a religious rights battle erupted in Collin County. Good evening, I'm Clarice Tinsley. Governor Abbott was in North Texas for that bill signing banning residential properties from creating Sharia law compounds.
This comes after state Republican leaders raised concerns about a Muslim-centric development plan in Collin County called Epic City. Fox 4's Stephen Dial. is there and has more Stephen. Glory's governor habit says that this law was needed in his words to prevent discrimination based on religion.
As you mentioned, some lawmakers were concerned and passed bills after the East Plano Islamic Center had plans to make a development for people of the Muslim faith in Josephine. Now, while Sharia law is not mentioned in this bill language, the governor signed Friday. He says he intend it intends to ban residential property developments like Epic City from creating Sharia law compounds.
Abbott said that this law is not targeting Muslims. He says it prevents any housing discrimination on the basis of any religion. Regardless of which religion it is, people are not going to be able to establish these comprehensive, large-scale developments that limit only people of one religious belief to that area. And you can only buy if you're part of that religion.
Chapter 2: What concerns did Texas Republican leaders have about the Epic City development?
You can only steal if you're part of that religion. Religious discrimination is in violation of Texas law. Now the plan for the development included 1000 homes, a mosque and school. The developers for the community say that people from all religions will be welcome in June. The US Department of Justice closed an investigation into Epic City.
Now there have still been multiple state investigations into this type of development, and it's important to note that the lawyers representing those for this development say that this is what they call racial profiling.
Radical Islam is a bloodthirsty ideology. It fueled the unspeakable crimes on October the 7th. It showed its evil face again at Bondi Beach. As Texas Senator, I'm fighting to revoke the tax-exempt status of the Council on American Islamic Relations. Let me be clear. No organization that supports terrorists should receive taxpayer benefits.
And Sharia law has no place in American courts or communities. I'm John Cornyn and I approve this message. Join my team and give today.
Chapter 3: How does Governor Abbott justify the ban on Sharia law compounds?
And this is all about a special election for a Texas state Senate seat.
around Fort Worth that's exactly right Texas 9 Texas 9 because what happened in Texas 9 it didn't just swing to the left it took a rocket ship to the left my goodness gracious the Texas 9 Senate district election marches this was a district that Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024 the Democratic candidate in the special election on Saturday hello won it by 14 points that's an over 30 point shift to the left any Republican
Unlike Ron DeSantis, who doesn't take this seriously, they should realize that this is very perilous. They ignore this result at their own peril.
Ron DeSantis is right to say, hey, special elections can be quirky, but this ain't no quirk. Congressman Pete Sessions from Texas basically told me, he said, no Democrat should ever win in North Texas like this. Although we also said, ah, there was an ice storm. 31 points. That's not an ice storm. No, that ain't no ice storm.
If you ignore this, you're going to ice yourself out of a majority come the midterm. All right. When we look at these special elections, and this is something you and I talk about a lot and look at very closely in between the federal elections, what can they tell us?
Okay. So, you know, you see this 31-point shift to the left, right? If this were just one election, that would be one thing. But it's the slew.
of special elections that together paint a picture and it's a picture that democrats should love and a picture that republicans should be really worried about because what are we talking about here okay the average twenty twenty five twenty six special election democrats are doing get this twelve points better 12 points better than Kamala Harris did in 2024.
You know, that was a state special election that happened in Texas on Saturday. If you look at the federal special elections, this 12 points is actually north of 15 points on average. I was looking back through the history books. This looks a whole... heck of a lot like what we saw during the 2017, 2018 cycle, where you saw these Democrats outperforming how Hillary Clinton did in 2016.
And what did it forecast? It forecast a net gain of 40 seats for Democrats. And I remember back in Pennsylvania, remember there was that Southwestern, that was a congressional special election seat, but that was one in which the Democratic candidate was able to actually win a deeply red Republican district.
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Chapter 4: What implications does the special election in Texas Senate District 9 have?
Okay, so you see this 12-point overperformance.
You see this 31-point overperformance. But that don't mean nothing if it ain't forecastable to the midterm elections. So what are we looking at here? Well, take a look at special elections since all the way back in the 2005-2006 cycle. Five out of five times the party that outperforms in the special elections goes on to win the U.S. House of Representatives.
And this, of course, all paints a picture, right? Texas 9, the special elections, the history of special elections in which Democrats look like they're in the catbird seat to take back the U.S. House come 2026 November.
Which is why Ron DeSantis and others are nervous this morning.
Islamic jihadis are plotting against you. Why in the hell you think they're in Houston and in north of Dallas? They are working together to overthrow Western civilization.
Sharia compounds, which are areas governed by religious rules.
We know who you are, we know what you are, and we know what you're trying to accomplish, and it is not going to happen in the jewel of the crown of the union of this republic.
We purge any attempt to impose Sharia law in Texas.
They are not coming. They are already here. You are not here properly and you're going to leave. On the 3rd of March, Sharia law goes on the ballot in the state of Texas.
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Chapter 5: How did the recent election results reflect a shift in voter sentiment?
It's Monday, 2 February, in the year of our Lord, 2026. I want to thank Scott Coburn for joining us. A... a long-term Texan, right? You're a Texan. Tell me about, your dad actually worked for Ross Perot and you spent a lot of years actually in a place that we talk about a lot, Tehran.
Talk to us about, you've actually had to live as a very small child, I guess it was, under the tender care, tender mercies of the Islamic Republic. What was it like?
Yeah, Steve. So when I was about eight or nine years old, my father worked for Ross Perot and EDS. We got we got transferred over to Tehran, Iran to do a government contract. And just so happened why we lived there was the was when the Shah was overthrown.
This is about 79, 79, 1970. What year did you get over there?
We got over there in late 78 and we were only supposed to be over there for two years. Well, things escalated. And literally one day with all the rioting going on in the streets, they had left a note on our door in our house that said Americans leave or die. Wow. Yeah, we were gone. Our family, me and my sisters and my mom, were gone the next day.
My dad stayed over there to try to get the rest of the EDS people out of the country.
Well, this led to, didn't Ross Perot, even before, because I was a young naval officer, 79 and 80, was in the North Arabian Sea, as the audience knows, on a destroyer, a destroyer officer. And we were practicing in the run-up to Desert One, which turned out to be a failure, not because of the people, just because of the... kind of the equipment and it was just too impractical to do.
We didn't have the special forces coordination. But Ross Perot basically tried to get his, attempted to get his guys out, correct? He wouldn't, he was a leave nobody behind and he was not that convinced that the Carter administration was being aggressive enough in helping American citizens get out.
That's exactly right, Steve. So essentially, this kind of speaks volumes about the kind of guy Ross Perot was. He tried through Kissinger and the State Department to get the two hostages that had been taken by the Iranian government.
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Chapter 6: What strategies are Republicans discussing to regain control in Texas?
And when that failed, the typical Perot fashion, he formed his own team of ex-military guys that worked for EDS.
There were a couple of three of those. He would hire every now and again the Eric Princes of the world.
And they went over there and busted the guys out, brought them back home, wrote a book about it. But my father was actually the deputy commander under Colonel Bull Simons on that mission.
On the mission. So tell me about it. I mean, so your family, you saw very early on at a young age what Islam was going to do and what an Islamic republic could do, right?
Yeah. And I saw how quickly it could escalate.
How quickly?
Yeah.
Well, the Shah seemingly had everything under control.
He was America's greatest ally in the region. It wasn't Israel at that time. It was Persia and the Shah of Iran.
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Chapter 7: What role does grassroots mobilization play in upcoming elections?
If the US government's not gonna help us, we're gonna go in ourselves. How is it what you're seeing in particularly in North Texas relate to that?
Yeah, so what seemingly started as simple protests and what have you quickly escalate into warfare and violence and whatnot, we've seen that here very quickly escalate into that. And we know what happens next if we don't squash this. So when we talk about taking matters into our own hands here in North Texas, that's what we're trying to do.
Because personally, I've seen it, but we've seen it elsewhere happen. Look at what's happening in Minnesota. If we don't get this under control now, that's where we're headed. So there's no more important thing that we could be focused on right now than the Islamification.
It seems like it was right below the surface. You had Abbott come out a while ago, and he was trying to put down Epic City, but he went out of his way and said, this is not, it's about Sharia, it's not about Islam. Then you've had Cornyn, who's about as conventional as you get in the U.S. Senate. He must know the heat's up, because now, not only has he made the spot,
He's carpet bombing the spot everywhere to let people know where he stands on this. Why did it go from below the surface now to the permission structure that people not only want to talk about this, they feel that they have to talk about it and they have to take action about it?
Honestly, Steve, I would look at even your own actions, getting involved in this, educating people in and outside of our area of what's going on, the dangers of this, pulling back the covers to expose really what's happening. That's what's going on. And I want to thank you guys for kind of helping us lead the way in that.
We just saw it building, and I saw... Talk to me about this Epic City. Epic City, I think, brought it to the... Because you've had issues in Plano and other cities around here. You've had the mayor that's now in Congress. They hassled her for years at the city council meetings. So this was going around in spots... But people couldn't connect the dots that it didn't seem organized.
I guess Epic City is what broke the barrier on that. All of a sudden, people said, well, hang over a second. This is too big. It takes too much financing. It's going to be too big a community.
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Chapter 8: How can Texans prepare for the upcoming primary elections?
It's centered around a mosque. All of a sudden, this looks real, and it's in one of the most beautiful places of North Texas.
Yeah, actually, I grew up in Plano. So I had seen kind of how that community has changed over the years.
But how's that? Tell us about Plano.
Well, when I lived in Plano in the late 80s, early 90s, it was just a podunk, you know, suburb of Dallas. And we didn't think anything of it. I didn't even know what Islamification was.
So when you came back from Tehran, you guys moved to Plano. We did. You brought the family back. Yep. So you had left... the fire, right, of the Islamic, and by the way, the Ayatollah was about as radical as you can get, but I keep saying here, you know, Mark Levin did his 18-minute pitch last night for military action. You were there. They did bring it on themselves.
I mean, they threw the Shah out. The Shah was far from perfect. They had Savak, they had an internal police force. He had lost touch with a lot of his people. But the people in Iran, and particularly the people today that are in the streets, their parents, some of them themselves, but their parents are what brought on this Islamic Republic. To me, they've gotta take care of it.
But you, having seen that, come back to the kind of prototypical small Texas town north of Dallas, And kind of that era of when the suburbs are being built and all these towns are becoming very big, it's just a sleepy Texas town.
Yeah.
And it ain't a sleepy Texas town anymore.
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