Link: https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/texas-republican-party-convention-muslims-sharia-law/

To some extent, Mohamed Hussein knew he was preparing to enter the lion’s den.

But he made the decision to attend the Republican Party of Texas Convention to confirm for himself that he had a place in the GOP, even as members of the party have railed for months about the urgency of ending Sharia Law and the so-called “Islamification” of Texas.

What he found was a party that didn’t want him. He arrived with hope, but left in tears after being told explicitly that he should leave the country.

Hussein was among four Muslims, who arrived at the convention in earnest — not as protesters, but as delegates or attendees — to participate in the annual meeting of the state’s most hardlined Republicans as they vote on the party’s priorities and hear from GOP leaders. Two prevailing themes from the Houston gathering were party unity and combatting Sharia Law, a movement that veered into outright Islamophobia by members of the convention.

“When they say Sharia-free, that means Muslim-free, no practices of Islam,” Hussein said in an interview with The Texas Tribune. “No one is calling for the state to implement Sharia laws.”

Hussein said he was in disbelief that he was told to convert or leave — for the first time in his life — at a Republican convention with the tagline, “Unity drives victory.”

But the group of Republican wannabe Muslims still won't face their cognitive dissonance. I mean... There's a reason they wanted to join the Republicans, after all...

She wept into her husband’s chest.

Halabi, a teacher, declined to say how she would vote in November, but said that she is a Republican and always votes.

This is why they get treated that way, because they're going to show up and vote for them anyway.

The Republicans would get a lot more votes if they weren't so racist. A lot of conservative racial minorities end up voting Democrat as a result.

Hussein said he was in disbelief that he was told to convert or leave — for the first time in his life — at a Republican convention with the tagline, “Unity drives victory.”

Their idea of unity is not coming together despite differences, it's an eradication of differences. They aren't even hiding it. I have no idea why they are surprised.

Imagine being as delusional as someone who was Muslim and felt welcome in the GOP in 2026. Trump literally tried to create a "Muslim ban". Were you not paying attention?

It’s pathetic really. These people hate their existence and yet they continue to carry water for them. Useful idiot isn’t a strong enough descriptor.

Not enough of them though. Hence, #leopardsatemyface.

Get them all CAT scans immediately

Blue no matter what?

pickme's

apparently they still do get alot votes with thier racism, despite the people voting them in is end of the targeted racism. i think they would lose votes without the culture wars and bigotry, because they be another dem party without the fascism.

or being LGBTQ+ and voting R, which is even more delusional. at least with muslim, which lean right in some cases.

they are hoping they are the exception to the rule.

Apparently not at this convention.

"No, we meant to unite with US, not whatever weirdo religion you believe in"

Can't scan a void. Can't have much there to support Trump

So many immigrants support this lunacy. My old best friend’s family are all big Trump supporters—None of them were born here. Some have citizenship, and the others have green cards. The one’s who can vote, vote red.

It’s so fucking stupid.

That makes early detection even more important!

I don't think they care, it's been well proven now that 50%+1 is enough for them to do all the damage they please, and fixing it essentially requires a supermajority.

Jeb understood this... He married a Latina and learned fluent Spanish. But the racism is a key pillar of the gop, and they don't care if you hate minorities too if you're a minority yourself.

Lol no they wouldn't they're the party of racism

Jews at nazi rally told to leave Nazi party, and nazi Germany

Teresa's? And? Was anyone surprised? I mean, Nazi's go Nazi and Nazi's do nazi shit. I'm not surprised, I'm not even outraged anymore because it's like being surprised that snakes do snake shit like biting you and injecting venom. It's a "doh" thing

But Muslims at a GOP convention, that IS interesting, that does make you wonder

Gotta have a pretty smooth brain to not recognize a political party as racist when they've been brazenly racist for decades.

Were you not paying attention?

Think you just figured out how every Trump/GOP supporter became a Trump/GOP supporter.

Blue no matter what?

Nah. Blue cuz they always govern better.

Jewish Nazis were a thing. They thought the antisemitism was just rhetoric to get votes.

Hitler sent them to the camps first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

Conservative muslims in America do love to participate in the culture war bullshit which attracts them to lemming voting for Republicans.

The idiot said he would continue to vote Republican, not delusional, a dumb ass

haha, yes indeed; that's the thing about these people - they're never gonna be embraced by the right. hell, Kaitlin Jenner is still trying to convince them she's a good trans person, and all the other ones are the icky types. jfc...

I know a gay republican. He makes my ears bleed when he talks.

Fucking idiots

Trans for Trump was certainly an interesting diversion.

I wonder how those Illinois Muslims for trump guys are getting on these days

This has to be fake, there is no way an adult human being can be this stupid. The picture show 5 of them, are 5 people really this stupid?

Buddy, there's a whole country full of em.

What about the genocide?

That picture is not of 5 muslims

I searched up one of the delegates and uh: https://threepennypress.org/features/2021/01/13/teacher-shares-her-immigration-story-to-america/

Halabi remembers a time when she stopped at a red light in traffic. Her kids were toddlers at the time, and she was dropping them off at school when she saw a car beside her with a large white man sticking his middle finger at her. The man unleashed a racist tirade to her car window, cursing her prophet and bellowing, “Go back to your country!” To her horror, the man exited his car and began to charge at her vehicle. Luckily, there were no cars parked behind her, so Halabi reversed and sped to her kids’ school, taking another route instead. Halabi told the school about her recent scare and the faculty there notified the authorities. She caught a glimpse of the man’s license plate, but she knew a report of a verbal attack wouldn’t do much justice. Halabi was just grateful she and her kids were not physically harmed.

“Unfortunately there are a lot of haters and you cannot do anything about it,” Halabi said. “Some people like to take their rights into their own hands and I don’t suggest that because it’s fast. It’s still in my memory, I will never forget how he terrorized me but it’s a good thing nothing worse happened.”

bruh

EDIT:

In the days before the convention, Muhtaseb, along with Tarek Hussein, who founded the Houston CAIR branch, were gaining attention as other delegates began realizing they had connections to CAIR.

I've forgotten but I'm like 90% sure CAIR was the scam DC org pretending to represent all the Islamic/Mulsim orgs in the USA, especially during the election cycle.

Good. Fucking pieces of shit all round.

There's never a shortage of fuck-you-got-mines until they find their comeuppance.

What about it?

Better to figure it out this way than an ICE concentration camp

You'd vote for a party doing one? That's vile.

I don't have time to research but i wonder what the right tells to people with immigrant background for the latter to be duped by the right? Are some religious minorities enamoured by, let's say misogyny, to vote for Republican but somehow forget that the Republicans also hate non-whites? I'm curious if social media feed only show minorities on certain things from the right but don't see other platforms from the same right.

You guys don't learn, do you?

Your little purity test resulted in a felon rapist pedophile controlling your life and a free-for-all wholesale slaughter of the people you were conducting a purity test for.

There is no debate here.

Palestinians were better off with Democrats in control and losers like you assured that the absolute worst possible outcome for Palestinians came to pass.

Eat shit. Freak.

Do you have a learning disability or brain damage? The genocide started under Biden, continued under Biden, and then was handed off to trump.

Palestinians were better off with Democrats in control and losers like you assured that the absolute worst possible outcome for Palestinians came to pass.

This is denying history at best, and genocide apologia at worst. Death to America.

You realize the dems had the ability to put the felon rapist pedophile in jail and decided it would be better to do a peaceful transfer of power?

By the way I'm not American, I don't get a vote, despite your fucking shit hole state destroying the planet I live on.

Blah blah blah.

None of your dipshit babbling changes that either Dems or Reps were winning and one was, and is, WAY fucking worse for Palestinians.

I feel it necessary to remind dipshits like you that Joe Biden is not president of Israel. He was president of a nation allied with Israel. So it was, in fact, another nation committing genocide while we proceeded with our allegiance with them while expressing our disapproval of their actions. Instead of, you know, showing full support and even joking about building a resort once the Palestinians are gone, which is what the current admin has done.

GET. FUCKED.

Genocide Joe is a proud Zionist. He went behind congress' back to enthusiastically supply Israel with 500 and 2000 pound bombs in order to genocide the Palestinians.

Your ignorance of history is disgusting but unsurprising.

The right only hates the "bad minorities" which they obviously are one of the good ones. Except oops! there is no such thing as a "good minority" to republicans.

Voting is not an endorsement. It's picking your boss battle. But yall rather we leave power at the table because the spectacle is too confusing for the vanguard navigate