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It’s happened all over Western Europe. In Amsterdam, several neighborhoods, including the Oud-West, De Pijp, and De Baarsjes, are now heavily Muslim. So are Molenbeek, a Brussels suburb, and Gruddalen, the vast valley that forms much of the eastern half of Oslo. Four out of ten people in Tower Hamlets, London, are Muslims, as is nearly thirty-five percent of the population of Luton. Several of the banlieues, or suburbs, of Paris are no-go zones; Marseille is about one-third Islam. The Rinkeby district of Stockholm is heavily Muslim, as are parts of Malmö, not to mention the Nørrebro neighborhood of Copenhagen.
Many of these areas can fairly be described as Muslim enclaves. Regular police stay out of some of them, leaving it to the Islamic moral police to patrol the streets, as in Iran, keeping their eyes out for Muslim girls or women who are violating sharia law. In these areas, many women are as tightly controlled by their fathers or husbands as they would be in their home villages back in the old country.
Yes, there are non-Muslim residents in these neighborhoods, but their numbers are steadily dwindling. They live in an ever-intensifying state of siege. It’s dangerous for them to come home at night. At school, their sons are beaten up and their daughters are sexually harassed. Every day, they’re reminded who’s in charge, and it’s definitely not them. More than many other people in Europe, they can see the continent’s future very clearly. Needless to say, it’s an Islamic future.
This phenomenon isn’t entirely absent from the United States. The Detroit suburbs of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights, with a total population of about 170,000, are both majority Muslim; on January 20 of this year, Dearborn’s most prominent imam was scheduled to give a benediction at the inauguration, but was disinvited at the last minute when it was discovered that – surprise! – he had a long history of extremism, including participation at a pro-Hezbollah event. Another Detroit suburb, Hamtramck, with a population of about 27,000, elected the country’s first all-Muslim city council a full decade ago. Leftists in Michigan, laboring under the delusion that Muslims are fellow members of the great progressive brotherhood, were delighted with this accomplishment – until 2023, that is, when the council banned rainbow flags from municipal property.
Of course, rainbow flags are the least of what Muslims will ban as their power grows.
Which is why we should all be worried about EPIC City, Texas. I’d never heard of it until just a few weeks ago. Since then, I’ve heard about it again and again. Maybe the word hasn’t gotten to you yet. If not, here you go. EPIC City, according to an April 3 report by Caroline Vandergriff of CBS News, is a proposed “Muslim community” that is a project of the East Plano Islamic Center (hence the name EPIC) in partnership with a real-estate firm called Community Capital Partners. The plan is to construct “a thousand homes, a mosque, apartments, a school and more” on 402 acres in Collin and Hunt counties near the town of Josephine, about an hour northeast of Dallas.
Since the initiative was announced last year, the leaders of the Islamic Center have hired Dan Cogdell, a leading Houston lawyer, “to help them navigate multiple state investigations” that were ordered by Governor Greg Abbott. In reaction to Abbott’s criticism of the EPIC City venture, Cogdell told Vandergraff that his clients “aren’t foreign adversaries” but “Texans.” “Americans.” “United States citizens.” And their only goal, he contended, “is to build a community that allows them to live together with people who value family and faith.”
Yes, that’s what they want to do – but it’s not all that they want to do. They want to do Molenbeek and Tower Hamlets and Groruddalen one better. They want the total Muslim experience: no kafirun (infidels) with their uncovered wives and daughters and haram puppy dogs. If you wanted to defend EPIC City, you might point to the way in which the Amish settled Lancaster, Pennsylvania, or the Mormons’ establishment of Utah. But neither the Amish nor the Mormons have a doctrine of jihadist conquest. They aren’t instructed to despise non-believers or throw homosexuals from rooftops. Their sexual politics may be old-fashioned, but they’re light-years more advanced than Islam’s.
At least one Texan realizes this. In addition to ordering investigations into the shadowy characters involved in the EPIC City venture, Abbott has demanded a construction halt, but has been ignored. Dismissing Abbott’s expressed concern about the possible imposition of sharia law in EPIC City, Cogdell told Vandergraff: “No one associated with that community follows sharia law or is in favor of sharia law.” Nonsense. One survey of Western Muslims after another has shown that an unsettling majority of them want to live under sharia law – and expect to be living under it before too long. The goal of broadening the ambit of sharia law, after all, is a major reason why millions of Muslims moved from their native lands to the West in the first place. It’s called expanding the umma. It’s called turning the Dar al Harb (House of War) into the Dar as Islam (House of Islam), one block at a time. And lying about it to infidels is called taqiyya.
All you have to do to recognize the truth about EPIC City is to glance at the specifics of the plan and the personnel connected with it. The prospectus includes “a K–12 faith-based school.” In other words, a madrass. There’s no mention of a secular school. And who’s the face of this enterprise? No, not some Muslim businessman or doctor or lawyer. Meet Yasir Qadhi, a Pakistani-American theologian who is dean of the Islamic Seminary of America in Richardson, Texas; resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center; and chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America, which issues rulings based on sharia law and which has – surprise again! – terrorist ties. (Its parent organization, the Islamic Society of North America, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the FBI’s 2008 case against the Richardson-based Holy Land Foundation, which had transferred millions of dollars to Hamas.) Qadhi used to identify as a Salafist, but he now claims to have changed his theological views. He’s on the record for having called the Holocaust a hoax and for having made outrageously antisemitic remarks, but he now says that he regrets those statements. It’s Qadhi who is the spokesman for EPIC City and is also its “spiritual leader.”
Have Qadhi’s abhorrent remarks and affiliations bothered the Muslims in Texas to whom EPIC City is being marketed, and who the Texas media would have us believe are freedom-loving religious moderates? Hardly. Within days after the EPIC City project made the news, “more than 500 lots” were snapped up, according to the Dallas News. In February, the East Plano Islamic Center put out word that it had just purchased two additional sites, both of them within a mile of EPIC City, that will be targeted for extensive residential development. And how do the locals feel? While some of them say that they’re going to move away in order to escape the area’s impending transformation, others are delighted that their property values have skyrocketed. This is, needless to say, the very definition of short-sightedness.
Alas, that short-sightedness seems to be widespread. On March 8, a group of people described as “Muslim, Jewish and Christian community leaders in North Texas” held a press conference at which they stood up for the EPIC City project and condemned its critics. Among the participants was Mustafaa Carroll of the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Council of American Islamic Relations, which is considered a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates and whose U.S. leader applauded the Hamas massacres of October 7, 2023. Another participant was Deborah Armintor of the pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace. There was plenty of talk about “love” and “solidarity” and “common ground” and the vulnerability of Muslim children – the kind of phony rhetoric that might well fool low-information Texans into believing that they’re dealing with something here other than a stealth jihad of the first order.
So far, EPIC City’s most outspoken critic appears to be Amy Mekelberg, a New York counterjihadist who goes online by the name Amy Mek, and who has noted that EPIC City really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody: the nearby cities of Plano and Irving already contain “Islamic-only parks and signage,” “Quran schools that reject Western education,” and “[s]treets named after Islamic figures: Ali Akbar Court, Amal Saleh Drive, Salma Jameel Court, Hafeela Drive, Zulaya Drive, Shemsa Way.” But if the Dallas News has it right, residents of Collin and Hunt counties are less concerned about the newcomers’ religion than about their impact on the environment and infrastructure.
Which just goes to show how much even rural Texans need to learn about Islam. Well, if the EPIC City initiative isn’t stopped in its tracks, they’ll be learning a great deal about it soon enough.
This is settler colonialism. A mosque in a kaffir land is an outpost with all of Islam’s elements, including military, to conquer the place.
I wish more people could see that.
I’m pretty sure a Texas court threw out jihad city.
This habit in the west of importing these specimens is going to end badly.
Bruce: You are one of my favorite writers; I always look forward to reading you. As a Plano resident, I just want to let you know that Texans are not as clueless as the media may want people to believe. We know that only Muslims can buy into this place and know that it is planned as totally Sharia. We in North Texas are passionately opposed to this and determined to keep it from happening. Happy to keep you posted on the progress of the Opposition! Susan
Thank you for this. Please do keep me posted! brucebawer@gmail.com
What ever happened to all the sh*t kick’in macho yahoos in Texas? Have they all gone soft and feminine?
out in the country and the rural areas. Not the prog territory of Dallas, Austin, San Antone and Houston.
I think ‘globalism’ and the ease of mobility (job/home) wrecked what you are talking about. I think Yellowstone illustrated that in a way. Jackson Hole, Vale, all those places were great until the people with more money than brains found them.
The TEXAS that spawned and nurtured the ALAMO…..no longer exists
The Alamo has been turned into a taco stand.
Clinton(Bill)Obama and Bidens Open Borders with Soros and the UN/CFR and the rest of the sinister Globalists
This doesn’t surprise me. When 9-11 happened I immediately started researching anything about Islam. It is not a religion of peace, They do not ever assimilate. They are a cult of evil and will slowly take over our culture. I have read dozens of books and articles about Islam. Their “religion” is a death cult.
Much like most other states. Tejas exceptionalism mostly myth. But don’t give up the ship: Deus Vult
Please translate “Dar al islam” completely.
It means “house of submission”.
The end goal of all observant muslims is to make the entire world into dar al islam.
Stray dogs should be unleashed in and around the Muslim enclave.
Re-zone the area for hog farming and start makin bacon!
Multiple wives make more Muslims at a faster rate than locals. Islamic doctrine clearly teaches “settlement” as a type of national overthrow.
Islam is as evil as Nazism would any rational country allow devout Nazis to immigrate to their country? NO!
I believe there will come a time when the West either surrenders to Islam or kicks all the Muslims out, a new RECONQUISTA.
Then you, as an objectivist atheist will be in deep deep sh*t. What are you going to do if that day comes? Wag your finger at everyone?
Oh shut up !!!
Your satanic church teaches YOU worship the same fake god allah as satanic islam…
AND…
Your satanic church houses islamic immigrants for money… paid by the Federal government…
You have no place to speak about anything… idiot…
The Muslim Terrorists have been working on EPIC subdivision for 12 years now. They are really sneaky.
And, to own property in their no-go zone one must be a member of the mosque. How about that for exclusivity?
The worst is yet to come. A probably well-meaning but totally naive and ignorant legislative bill was filed in the Texas House of Representatives this session. HB1805 would create a seven-member “Religious Freedom Commission” appointed by the governor who “have served prominently as leaders of or spokespersons for organizations that serve members of religious communities, including the Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim communities.”
Their duties would include making recommendations “regarding local and state policies that violate freedom
of religion or that fail to ensure the individual’s right to religious belief and practice.” “The office of the governor shall provide administrative support, including staff to the commission” paid for by tax-payer dollars. Funded in part by unlimited gifts and grants, the presiding officer of the commission would become a pay-to-play position headquartered in the governor’s office.
Under the guise of insuring religious freedom for everyone, the Islamic commitment to conquest, the stronghold Muslims already have here, and their unlimited funding, it is easy to see how any such commission would be used to destroy religious freedom of all other non-Muslim faiths. Please pray for Texas.
Newsmax and Mark Levin covered EPIC in Texas recently. One video clip of the local Planning and Zoning Meeting (apparently) showed a commissioner questioning the project’s validity. If EPIC falls under the purview of a Planning and Zoning Commission, it can be nipped in the bud with a rejection of the application. If the Commission doesn’t vote to deny it, then they own it. The rest of the country needs to provide suicide watch on this.
The enemy of liberty, peace, and prosperity is any form of irrationality whether secular or religious.
“ To live, man must use his mind; he must think. All human values — from money to art to love — are based on and require unbroken commitment to rationality. This is why, in the Objectivist ethics, rationality is the primary virtue.…
As to those on the “right” who seek to combine reason, individualism, and individual rights with the religious faith and the primordial view of man as an object of sacrifice, Rand was clear: “In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.”…
To those who seek such a compromise, we say: if you think you can reconcile reason and faith in your personal life, go ahead and try. But we urge you not to base your support of freedom and capitalism on religion: to say freedom stems from faith is to say that reason is on the side of dictatorship.
The enemies of freedom could hardly hope for a bigger boost” – Harry Binswanger
I see your proxy finger wagging has already begun. Somehow I don’t think ‘ole Harry B. is going to save anyone when the SHTF.
And yet… you belong to a homosexual approved satanic church…
So what are you going to do? Play the Islamic call to prayer on your collector Bass Guitar?
…
You’re a waste of air…
I once read about plans for a mega-mosque just outside Boise. I wonder if that is progressing.
Interesting. When visiting a niece in Nampa, Idaho (just outside of Boise), I drove by a cornfield with a tiny little white structure that looked like the stereotypical little one-room schoolhouse. However, this one had a sign that said Mosque of Kuna or something like that. Kuna being another little town outside of Boise.
1980 I was living in Houston. Gilly’s in Pasadena, Texas had the mechanical bull that was in “Urban Cowboy” movie so it was very popular for city folks to go to Gilly’s and get wasted.
Driving back one Friday night in my 1970 F100 pickup I passed a building off the highway with a bold sign on top of the manufactured building: KNIGHTS OF THE KLU KLUX KLAN
My thought was: “Jew boy, you better not break down here”
How is letting in a myzylam city in Texas better than allowing the KKK and other domestic terrorists?
Comparing a Muslim terrorist organization to the KKK is like comparing a small 2 person Army to a well organized/funded Muslim terrorist organization/jihad Army.
Islam is the most well funded, evil, atrocity oriented, terrorist organization/civilization in the world. Islam is invading the world and no one sees it or understands it. Americans are ignorant of what Muslims can do to America. If Muslim demographics exceeds 5% things start to change, rapes of young American women, attacks on Jews and Christians, tearing down gravesites with religious symbols on them, praying in the streets, Islamic call to prayer heard in certain neighborhoods, continue to build mosques in every major city.
Muslims hate America, they hate you and me for being non-Muslim, would kill you and me for being non-Muslim. Per Allah and Muhammad, would kill you then call their Mother at home to say I’ve killed Jews, Christians, today and then celebrate on the phone. If Muslim demographics reaches 13% in America, churches and synagogues with be defaced, rallies in the streets to support Sharia law will be common place, anti-American rallies on campus.
Communists and Islamists are working together to defeat America, we’re not just talking about a few people, we’re talking millions of fighting age men, here in America, that want to defeat America, kill you and me.
John Guandolo can tell you all about it himself, if ever he comes to a city near you. He’s a former FBI agent, fired by Obama, who worked on counter-terrorism in the USA. Look em up! UnderstandingtheThreat.org.
There is no migration (Hijra) without Jihad. This is played out across Europe massacre after massacre, stabbing after stabbing, rape after rape.
The BS about this problem is just BS. It only makes us feel better about the problem. What has to be done is, a long and legal look at this, and then get into action to stop the cancer that is spreading. We got rid of the Nazis ,,the KKK , and we can kill this problem as well. I pray that Gov. Abbott has a handle on this. H K Shoe dog
All of those adherents of the Religion of Peace. In one place.
In the remake of The Magnificent 7 starring Denzel Washington, he warns the people of their town, which is being taken over by a corrupt silver mine co. “If you want your town back you will have to fight for it”.
The same thing has happened in the Detroit suburbs of Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and Hamtramk. Brooklyn NY is overrun with knife wielding Muslims. It’s tough to buy guns legally in the blue states but you can bet there are plenty of illegal guns already in the mosques.
Non-Muslim People are leaving these Muslim enclaves in droves.
But Texas? Plano Texas? The non-Muslims folks have guns a-plenty in Texas and they better get their act together and drive these “settler colonialists” out. My understanding houses are being built without building permits. That lawsuit should be enough to put a temporary hold on this idiotic project.
When the jihad attack comes it will originate in the places I have mentioned. It will spread from there.
Arm up. Ammo up.
Intrepid…that is a lovely sentiment but just because people own guns doesn’t mean they are going to use them. It isn’t the 1880s, and the Alamo was a long, long time ago.
I never would have thought Texas cops would have handled the Uvalde Massacre the way they did, but it happened.
I never would have thought the Texas governor would just watch thousands of illegals wade across the Rio Grande for two years before taking any kind of action, like busing them to NYC. But that’s what happened.
I hope Texans can stop this outrage but I’m not feeling too optimistic.
This is truly a cancer in our midst and must be cut out.
On the other hand! W/what is going on in the public schools & society in general I can’t blame them, like religious Jews from wanting to raise their children as they see fit!
It’s not the same thing. Time for that Red Pill, Garry!
What a nightmare. Islam is spreading like a deadly cancer all over the world. God help us!
I’ve seen this coming, I’ve known this has been the plan (for Muslims to infiltrate & destroy the West) for a while, but couldn’t imagine Americans sitting by & allowing it, actually facilitating it!
I’m 73, & grateful that I’ll be gone by the time the West opens its eyes & realizes it’s too late to stop it. I grieve for future generations.