Republican Texas Agricultural Commissioner Sid Miller is doubling down on an Islamophobic social media submit after being known as out by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Final week, Miller posted a meme on his official Fb account that depicts Islam as a snake squeezing a cowboy’s leg with a knife labeled “resolution” getting used to kill the serpent.
“It’s about that point…” Miller captioned the submit, sparking outrage amongst Texas Muslims.
Miller is not any stranger to firing off bigoted and outrageous feedback on social media. He as soon as confronted criticism for calling then-Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton a “cunt” and has shared pretend information on his Fb feed to discredit Islam.
CAIR — a prime Muslim civil-rights and advocacy nonprofit — issued an announcement Sunday blasting Miller for portraying Islam as a risk that must be eradicated.
“Scapegoating is barely utilized by weak politicians as a software of distraction from accountability, and is an indication of failure,” CAIR-Texas Operations Supervisor Shaimaa Zayan mentioned in an announcement. “Muslims will not be a risk. We’re docs, professors, attorneys, enterprise homeowners, public servants and an important a part of the Texan and U.S. cloth.”
Regardless of CAIR’s admonishment, Miller doubled down, writing in a Tuesday press launch, stating he stands by his “warning concerning the risks of radical Islam in Texas.”
“Radical Islamic terrorism is a most cancers on the world,” Miller mentioned. “C.A.I.R., an affiliate of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood and a financier of Hamas, is a home terrorist group and ought to be dismantled.”
CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a 2008 federal trial that focused a corporation alleged to be funding terror group Hamas.
Even so, CAIR has lengthy disputed these claims. In a 2014 assertion, the group wrote that it “unequivocally condemns all acts of terrorism” by any group, and it has used its platform to sentence antisemitism.
Islamophobia has been on the rise in Texas and nationally this yr. CAIR tallied 8,658 Islamophobic assaults within the U.S. throughout 2024, the very best recorded for the reason that group started maintaining tabs in 1996.
Gov. Greg Abbott and Lawyer Common Ken Paxton earlier this yr ordered an investigation into EPIC Metropolis, a Muslim-focussed residential growth in North Texas, citing considerations that the ethnic enclave might be an try to carry Sharia legislation to the Lone Star State.
The U.S. Division of Justice dropped a separate investigation into EPIC Metropolis in June, and civil-rights teams preserve that state and nationwide Republican leaders have lied concerning the growth in try to spin up public paranoia.
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