Abbott Calls for Criminal Investigations Into Sharia Courts Operating in North Texas

[Elderberry]

Texas Scorecard By Brandon Waltens November 19, 2025

The push comes amid heightened scrutiny over Islamist influence and institutions in Texas.

Gov. Greg Abbott is calling on law enforcement officials across North Texas to launch investigations into what he says may be illegal sharia tribunals operating as rogue courts in Collin and Dallas counties.

In a letter sent to local district attorneys, sheriffs, the Texas attorney general, and the Department of Public Safety, Abbott warned that certain entities may be “masquerading as legal ‘courts’ staffed with ‘judges’ issuing orders” that claim to bind individuals to Islamic law—actions he says could violate multiple state criminal statutes.

Abbott noted that the First Amendment provides wide latitude for religious bodies to adjudicate internal doctrinal and ecclesiastical matters, but said that authority does not extend to attempting to function as a parallel legal system.

In 2017, Abbott signed House Bill 45, which prohibits Texas courts from enforcing foreign laws—including sharia law—when they conflict with state or federal constitutional rights. The law was designed to ensure that family law disputes and other civil matters in Texas cannot be governed by foreign legal codes.

More: https://texasscorecard.com/state/abbott-calls-for-criminal-investigations-into-sharia-courts-operating-in-north-texas/

[Fishrrman]

Locate these "courts".
Send in the Texas Rangers and clean them out.

[libertybele]

Locate these "courts".
Send in the Texas Rangers and clean them out.

 

[The_Reader_David]

The only question about this action is whether Texas law has provisions for disputes to be settled through binding arbitration, with the disputants having the right to choose the arbiter.  If so, it is possible there is no crime to investigate.  If on the other hand, the sharia courts are functioning outside the scope of such a statute (if one exists), raid them and seize all records of their proceedings and judgements.

[Ms. AntiFeminazi]

I sure hope Abbott is serious about this.  North Texas has been under attack for years and I'm afraid they're losing the war.  I left there a year ago, but lived there for almost 40 years and it still seems like home.

[Elderberry]

Abbott Comes Out Swinging Against Jihad

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog 11/20/2025

EPIC City may have turned out to be mostly (not entirely) a nothingburger, more a prosaic speculative land deal than an actual Islamic City, but it seems to have lit a fire under Greg Abbott, as he’s come out swinging against any opportunity for Jihad to take root in Texas this week.

First up: He designated CAIR and the BrandonMuslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations.

    Gov. Greg Abbott has officially designated both the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations.

    The move immediately prohibits the groups from purchasing or acquiring land in Texas and authorizes the state to take legal action to shut down their operations.

    The designation is the first significant use of authority granted to the governor under Senate Bill 17, a land-security measure Abbott signed into law earlier this year.

    SB 17 allows the governor, after consultation with the Department of Public Safety, to classify any foreign group or transnational criminal organization as a prohibited entity. Once designated, those organizations—and their affiliates—are barred from acquiring real property in Texas and become subject to aggressive enforcement by the attorney general.

    “The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s ‘mastership of the world,’” said Abbott. “The actions taken by the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR to support terrorism across the globe and subvert our laws through violence, intimidation, and harassment are unacceptable.”

The astonishing thing here is not only Abbott declaring an obvious truth loudly and clearly, but that the actual declaration goes even harder without even a single ritual bow to mealy-mouthed, politically correct wokespeak on the issue, and I’d quote great walloping bits of it if it weren’t an uncopyable PDF.

Back to Texas Scorecard.

    Under SB 17, the Texas attorney general is empowered to investigate any property transactions involving prohibited entities, bring actions against land they attempt to acquire, seek court-ordered divestiture, and pursue civil penalties of up to 50 percent of the property’s market value. Courts are required to appoint receivers to sell off any land improperly purchased.

More: https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=68809