Converting Texas to Islam

By Carole Hornsby Haynes       March 26, 2026        American Thinker

At the February meeting of the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), Shaimaa Zayan, Operations Manager of the Austin office of Council on Islamic Relations (CAIR) went to the microphone to make public comments about revisions to the social studies curriculum standards which are under review. 

Why is a designated foreign terrorist organization by Governor Abbott, allowed a platform to demand a full revision of the Texas social studies curricula to promote their Islamic agenda? 

Board member Brandon Hall (marker 1:12:40) asked that question: "Point of order...CAIR's stated goal is to push Sharia [Islamic law] in the state of Texas, and now they're here to do it in our schools. Governor Abbott designated CAIR as a foreign terrorist organization. Can we have the leader of a foreign terrorist organization testify?" 

Yes! According to the SBOE’s legal counsel, a terrorist organization is allowed under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to speak at public hearings. The SBOE is advised to seek unbiased counsel for the interpretation of the Constitution. 

When our Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, did they intend for our enemies to have equal rights under our rule of law? Did they intend for foreign enemies to have a voice in what American children are taught? Why is CAIR allowed any presence in Texas? In the United States? In our institutions? Why are their members not arrested? 

This front organization for the Muslim Brotherhood has been linked to terror and to subversion of American education. They are working within the system to change the textbooks and curriculum “to attack the children who are the heart of America.” 

CAIR is crying foul over the recently SBOE approved social studies teaching plan because all grades are heavily focused on Texas and U.S. history with only a small amount of time allocated for world history and cultures. The terrorist organization is screaming Islamaphobia over the rightward shift in the curriculum to Western civilization with Biblical history and the lack of requirements for “Islam, global civilizations and non-Western societies.” 

The revisions of the proposed Texas social studies curriculum that CAIR is demanding will cancel our Christian heritage, our founding, and our Texas legends and replace them with Islamist propaganda. 

If CAIR succeeds, students will be taught that one-third of all slaves in America were Muslims who were enslaved and murdered because of their Muslim faith. The Mayflower Compact, Christopher Columbus, Christopher Columbus Day, and President George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation and prayer will be wiped out of our history. Students will be taught that the Alamo was influenced by Islamic architecture and built as a tribute to Islam. The history of the founding of the United States and Texas will be revised with Muslims included as contributors. 

With the second largest K-12 student population in the country, Texas has been a target of Islam for decades. Political Islamis taught in public schools under the guise of studies in world history and religions. English classes promote Islam through vocabulary worksheets. 

In Texas and across the country, Muslims are allowed to proselytize while Christians cannot. 

Outside a North Texas school, students prayed in front of the American flag before classes began.  They were told to cease their prayers on school grounds.  However, a student at that school told this writer privately that Muslim students were allowed to go to the school library for their daily prayers.  Muslim students would go to classrooms to get their friends out for their numerous daily prayers. Yet the principal did not shut down their prayers and did not allow equal time for Christians who might have wanted to pray during class time inside the school.  

At Honey Grove Independent School District students were forced to hide behind a cafeteria curtain, move to an empty gym, or relocate outside to pray. 

For years at Liberty High School in Frisco, Muslim students were given preferential treatment with the transformation of a classroom into a campus mosque for 30 minutes each weekday. 

In an effort to normalize Sharlia-lite with religious symbols in the heart of Texas pride on Go Texan Day, a Ramadan display was sneaked into Bunker Hill Elementary in Houston. It was only through the vigilance of parents that the Islamic display was removed. 

Students memorize verses from the Qur’an, learn the Five Pillars of Islam, recite the American Pledge of Alliegiance (“One nation uner Allah”) and chant, “There is no god but Allah.” However, classes do not include the memorization of Bible verses. 

During class activities, students kneel on rugs and pray to Allah while facing in the direction of Mecca. Students wear burqas and necklaces with the emblem of the Muslim star and moon crescents. Deeper immersion occurs during school field trips to a mosque where female students are required to cover themselves from head to toe.  

In 2008 the American Textbook Council released a report, Islam in the Classroom: What the Textbooks Tell Us. “None of this is accidental.  Islamic organizations, willing to sow misinformation, are active in curriculum politics.  These activists are eager to expunge any critical thought about Islam from textbooks and all public discourse.”   

Educators provide students with only positive stories about the multi-culturalism and broad-mindedness of Muslims.  Textbooks whitewash the beheadings, slaughter of Christians and Jews, crucifixions, enslavement, stonings, hangings, throwing gays over balconies to their death, honor killings, female genital mutilation, dismembering of body parts, disemboweling, rape, terror, kidnapping, destroying synogogues and churches, detonating bombs strapped to babies’ heads, and locking people in cages for days and then drowning them.  Totally ignored is the plight of women living under Shari’ah.  

The pattern of Islam is to use schools and school boards, government, the courts, art museums, and other major institutions, including outreach to churches, to infiltrate,gradually introduce Shari’ah, and then finally takeover a nation. 

The goal is the conversion of America to an Islamic nation living under Shari’ah. In a 1989 video clip (tracker 10:31) about the goal of Islam for America, Islamic activist Sharifa Alkhateeb makes this quite clear to her audience at the "Muslim Americans Political Awareness Conference," 

“We do not want to melt into American society and disappear. We want to go into American society with Islamic ideals and revamp their thinking. We want to revamp them. We want to turn them into Muslim individuals.” 

Alkhateeb emphasizes that, since “education is political,” public education will be used to convert students to Islam. 

Islamic encroachment is moving swiftly across Texas, not only in education, but with the building of dozens of new mosques, the development of a large Muslim community, and infiltration of Christian churches, it is clear these are barbaric conquerors who will stop at nothing to totally destroy America. It is up to Texans to bring full stop to the assault on our schools, our history, and our way of life.