{"id":841,"date":"2025-09-20T19:38:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/?p=841"},"modified":"2025-09-20T19:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:38:21","slug":"islamization-of-houston-texas-any-body-noticing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/islamization-of-houston-texas-any-body-noticing\/","title":{"rendered":"ISLAMIZATION OF HOUSTON TEXAS-ANY BODY NOTICING?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"box-inner-p-smaller box-single\">\n<div class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Islamization of Texas: Terror-Linked Pakistani Group Seizes Houston Streets for Prophet Muhammad Parade (Video) September<span class=\"updated\">\u00a019, 2025<\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"meta-item meta-rtime\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-facebook size-facebook wp-post-image lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/42cf34f2-f4c5-4946-aa26-260f974cab1d_2996x1606-1-1200x630.webp\" sizes=\"auto, 688px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/42cf34f2-f4c5-4946-aa26-260f974cab1d_2996x1606-1-1200x630.webp 1200w, https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/42cf34f2-f4c5-4946-aa26-260f974cab1d_2996x1606-1-570x300.webp 570w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" data-src=\"https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/42cf34f2-f4c5-4946-aa26-260f974cab1d_2996x1606-1-1200x630.webp\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/42cf34f2-f4c5-4946-aa26-260f974cab1d_2996x1606-1-1200x630.webp 1200w, https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/42cf34f2-f4c5-4946-aa26-260f974cab1d_2996x1606-1-570x300.webp 570w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-original-sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"box-inner-p-bigger box-single\">\n<div class=\"entry-headline h5\">\n<p>Houston\u2019s parade for Islam\u2019s prophet\u2019s birthday, led by Dawat-e-Islami, was a power play \u2014 seizing American streets while hiding an extremist agenda behind charity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In Houston, city streets were surrendered to\u00a0<em>Eid Milaad un Nabi<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 an Islamic holiday celebrating the Prophet Muhammad\u2019s birthday. Activists promote it as a harmless cultural festival, but it is nothing of the sort.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an American tradition. It is a political-religious spectacle glorifying Muhammad \u2014 remembered not as a man of peace, but as a warlord who expanded power through conquest, enforced submission by the sword, silenced dissent, married a child, and built a system that left no space for freedom of conscience.<\/p>\n<p>No one grew up in America watching armies of Muslims march down our streets \u2014 blasting music, waving Islamic flags, seizing public space in the name of their prophet. That was not America. But it is now.<\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_v6wz1ow\">\n<div id=\"vid_v6wz1ow\" class=\"rumble_v6wz1ow-Rumble-cls\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"bigPlayUI ctp\">\n<div class=\"bigPlayUIInner ctp\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"rumble_v6wz1ow\">\n<div id=\"vid_v6wz1ow\" class=\"rumble_v6wz1ow-Rumble-cls\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is what Islamization looks like:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>First, the streets.<\/strong>\u00a0Public space is claimed under the cover of \u201ccultural celebration.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Then, normalization.<\/strong>\u00a0Politicians cheer it on, terrified to say no.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Finally, acceleration.<\/strong>\u00a0Each march, each parade, each flag plant speeds up the process of domination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Islamic parades in the West are not neutral. They are demonstrations of visibility, power, and ownership. When Dawat-e-Islami shut down blocks of Houston for its procession, it was not simply celebrating \u2014 it was planting a flag. The message was unmistakable:\u00a0<em>these streets now belong to us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Such displays were never part of American life. Streets filled with Islamic flags, chants, and slogans mark a transformation. What was once unimaginable in the United States is now becoming reality.<\/p>\n<p>Look at Europe. Look at London. Look at Paris. The same parades and \u201ccelebrations\u201d marked the beginning of cultural conquest. Entire neighborhoods soon followed, living under parallel Islamic authority.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad is being glorified on American soil. Politicians remain silent as a jihadi who slaughtered Jews and Christians is praised in our streets. Families are forced to watch Houston morph into another imported stronghold of Islamic power.<\/p>\n<p>This is raw power and control, unfolding openly in front of us.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who is Behind It? Dawat-e-Islami<\/h2>\n<p>The march was organized by\u00a0<strong>Dawat-e-Islami<\/strong>, a Pakistan-founded Islamic movement now operating as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the United States. It runs 13 centers across America and presents itself as a purely religious and educational charity.<\/p>\n<p>But beneath that veneer lies a record that should alarm every American:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Links to assassins and extremists.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The murderer of Pakistani governor Salman Taseer was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/596297\/qadri-smiling-fanatic-who-killed-punjab-governor\">\u00a0reported\u00a0<\/a>to have ties to Dawat-e-Islami.A French-Pakistani who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/596297\/qadri-smiling-fanatic-who-killed-punjab-governor\">stabbed<\/a>\u00a0two people outside Charlie Hebdo\u2019s old offices in 2020 was described by his own father as a disciple of Dawat-e-Islami\u2019s founder, Ilyas Qadri \u2014 whom the attacker himself\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/islamist-watch\/beware-pakistan-barelvis\">named<\/a>\u00a0as his \u2018guide.\u2019 Qadri has openly declared: \u2018All Muslim scholars agree that a blasphemer must be killed\u2026 if a lover of the Prophet kills a blasphemer extra-judicially, the killer is not executed.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-80109 lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na-1024x683.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, 688px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na-570x380.jpg 570w, https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na-740x493.jpg 740w, https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-src=\"https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na-1024x683.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na-570x380.jpg 570w, https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na-740x493.jpg 740w, https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CzGEEzIXcAA96Na.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-original-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ilyas Qadri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In India, police linked one of the men who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/tangled-threads-tie-udaipur-murder-to-pakistan-group-that-inspired-taseer-killer-paris-knifeman\/1017749\/\">beheaded\u00a0<\/a>a Hindu tailor in Udaipur to training at a Dawat-e-Islami center in Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Glorification of violence.<\/strong>\u00a0Dawat-e-Islami-affiliated media has published tributes to blasphemy killers as \u201choly warriors,\u201d reinforcing the ideology that dissent from Islam deserves death.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Antisemitic and sectarian rhetoric.<\/strong>\u00a0In the U.K., DEI apologized after distributing a leaflet describing a former synagogue as a \u201cplace of worship of non-believers.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Asian Islam has long been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/islamist-watch\/beware-pakistan-barelvis\">split<\/a>\u00a0between the Deobandi and Barelvi sects. Deobandis are behind groups like the Taliban and Jaish-e-Muhammad, which dominate global jihad networks. Western analysts often point to the Barelvis as the \u2018moderate\u2019 foil \u2014 but Dawat-e-Islami proves this narrative false.<\/p>\n<p>But the danger of Dawat-e-Islami is not limited to individuals inspired to commit violence. Its entire ideological foundation \u2014 rooted in the Barelvi sect \u2014 carries a darker agenda often hidden beneath charitable campaigns and spiritual language.<\/p>\n<p>These incidents are symptoms of a deeper problem: the ideology baked into Dawat-e-Islami itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Barelvi Mask<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dawat-e-Islami is rooted in the Barelvi sect of Islam, a movement often\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/islamist-watch\/the-danger-of-dawat-e-islami\">portrayed i<\/a>n the West as a \u201cmoderate\u201d counterbalance to Deobandi or Salafi extremism. Yet in practice, Dawat-e-Islami has shown itself to be anything but moderate.<\/p>\n<p>Behind occasional charitable campaigns \u2014 blood drives, food rations, and aid programs \u2014 lies a hardline agenda. DeI openly commits itself to the enforcement of sharia law, describing polytheism as a \u201cheinous act\u201d punishable by \u201cthe most admonitory and worst form of death.\u201d Its founder, Ilyas Qadri, instructs followers that boycotting Jewish products is not enough; Muslims must avoid even\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/islamist-watch\/the-danger-of-dawat-e-islami?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">imitating<\/a>\u00a0Jewish behavior.<\/p>\n<p>In DeI\u2019s own teachings, participation in jihad is presented as an obligation, with preachers like Muhammad Qasim Attar<strong>i<\/strong>\u00a0quoting scripture demanding Muslims join battles for Islam\u2019s cause. While Western audiences are told the group is \u201cnon-political,\u201d its literature and sermons push an uncompromising ideological program.<\/p>\n<p>The organization also enforces cult-like discipline. American preachers loyal to Qadri have declared that anyone who deviates from the Dawat-e-Islami line risks excommunication and \u201cshould worry about his hereafter.\u201d Even other Muslims are not safe: Ahmadiyya Muslims are denounced as heretics, with Barelvi lobbying helping entrench the death penalty for Ahmadis in Pakistan. Abroad, Dawat-e-Islami followers have attacked or killed those they deem apostates \u2014 including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Murder_of_Asad_Shah\">Asad Shah,<\/a>\u00a0a Scottish Ahmadi shopkeeper murdered in 2016 by a DeI adherent.<\/p>\n<p>It was another Barelvi cleric, Tahir ul-Qadri, who played a central role in introducing Pakistan\u2019s capital punishment laws for blasphemy \u2014 legislation that has fueled systematic persecution of Christians and Ahmadis, showing that the Barelvi movement weaponizes law as readily as it unleashes mobs.<\/p>\n<p>DeI\u2019s record across Europe is equally disturbing. At a \u201cDay of the Prophet\u201d rally in Offenbach, Germany, DeI speakers celebrated the assassination of Pakistani governor Salman Taseer and openly endorsed the killing of blasphemers. In 2020, Zaheer Hassan Mahmoud, a DeI member, stabbed two people outside the former offices of\u00a0<em>Charlie Hebdo<\/em>\u00a0in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Khatme Nubuwwat \u2014 a Barelvi-linked network dedicated to eradicating the Ahmadiyya faith \u2014 held a conference in Virginia, backed by American mosques. Speakers warned of supposed Ahmadi \u2018conspiracies\u2019 and openly discussed lobbying to criminalize the Ahmadi religion in the United States. Though formally distinct from Dawat-e-Islami, Khatme Nubuwwat draws from the same Barelvi ideology \u2014 proof that sectarian hatred is not confined to Pakistan or Europe, but is being incubated on U.S. soil.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same organization operating as a tax-exempt charity in the United States, running 13 centers, including in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all this, Dawat-e-Islami is not banned in the U.S. or other Western countries. It exploits nonprofit protections, tax exemptions, and the language of \u201ccharity\u201d to expand its reach, even as individuals connected to it repeatedly show up in cases of jihadist violence.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Bigger Picture<\/h2>\n<p>What happened in Houston isn\u2019t just about one parade. It is a test. Every time American cities hand over their streets, their permits, and their public spaces for the glorification of Muhammad, the process of Islamization accelerates.<\/p>\n<p>Europe has already shown us where this road leads: parallel societies, political intimidation, religious enforcement, and ultimately the collapse of national identity.<\/p>\n<p>Dawat-e-Islami has already planted itself in America under the guise of charity. Houston was the latest warning. The question now is whether Americans will force their politicians to confront this threat in our streets \u2014 or keep looking away until it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamization of Texas: Terror-Linked Pakistani Group Seizes Houston Streets for Prophet Muhammad Parade (Video) September\u00a019, 2025 Houston\u2019s parade for Islam\u2019s prophet\u2019s birthday, led by Dawat-e-Islami, was a power play \u2014 seizing American streets while hiding an extremist agenda behind charity. 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