Islam's Shell Game and America's Institutional Enemy

Article CAIRCO note: 
Texas, not Iran, is the frontline in the struggle over political Islam inside the United States
Article author: 
Elias Cohen
Article publisher: 
American Greatness
Article date: 
6 June 2026
Article category: 
Our American Future
Medium
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Washington has managed political Islam as a distributed system rather than confronting it, and that same framework now defines the struggle playing out in Texas....

During the Cold War, Washington increasingly viewed political Islam through an anti-Soviet lens: not as a unified ideological threat, but as a usable force against Soviet influence and Soviet-aligned regimes... But what serves Washington abroad does not necessarily serve the backyard of Texas...

The Muslim Brotherhood appears fragmented because fragmentation is the tactic. Western governments look for formal hierarchy, command structures... But the Brotherhood does not operate like a Western corporation or military bureaucracy.

It operates like a distributed ideological system. Political Party here. Charity there. Student organization here. Media arm there...

Founded by Hassan al-Banna in 1928 after the Ottoman collapse, the Muslim Brotherhood was not merely a religious movement. It was a strategic answer to defeat: a disciplined effort to restore Islamic political power through a global caliphate... One mission... One civilizational project...

Qatar is the principal nation-state platform for the Muslim Brotherhood...

Texas now sits inside that network...

Qatar has poured billions into the United States to shape the minds of a generation through universities, businesses, cultural programs, policy institutions, media influence, and elite access.

Texas, not Iran, is the frontline in the struggle over political Islam inside the United States...

If Texas cannot define what the Muslim Brotherhood actually is, then every domestic branch can claim to be the peaceful branch.

And if Texas loses this fight, the consequences will not remain in Texas. A precedent will be established that allows Brotherhood-linked organizations to continue expanding state by state while always claiming that the extremists exist somewhere else...

Your attorney general, your governor, and your local politicians need to be correctly educated by a group of experts serving Texas and defending Western civilization - and no one else - whose only priority is to eradicate this problem from Texas and the rest of the United States, not perpetuate it...