Political Analysis and Global Affairs

 Texas Republicans are not banning Sharia law. They are banning a memory they do not want to confront. Proposition 10 in the 2026 Texas Republican primary asks voters whether the state should prohibit Sharia law. The problem is simple and inconvenient. Sharia law has no legal standing in Texas. It never has. It never could. The U.S. Constitution already blocks religious law from replacing civil law. So why ask the question at all? Because this is not legislation. It is theater. And more precisely, it is historical avoidance dressed up as public safety. A Phantom Threat That Doesn’t Exist Texas has a population of roughly 30 million people. Muslims make up around 1.5 to 2 percent of that number. At most, that is about 600,000 people. They are spread across Houston, Dallas, Austin, and a few other urban centers. They do not control courts. They do not dominate school boards. They do not set state policy. They cannot impose anything. Yet they are being treated as if they are ...

Steve Bannon’s Texas Warning: A Fear Looking for a Threat When Steve Bannon stood on a stage in Texas and warned of an “Islamic invasion,” he wasn’t unveiling a new danger. He was recycling an old narrative, sharpened for a familiar audience and a volatile political moment. Texas, in his telling, is not just a state. It is a civilizational symbol. A final frontier. A place where, he claims, Western identity must now draw a hard line. The question worth asking, calmly and without slogans, is simple: is the threat he describes real, or is it a fear being politically curated? What Bannon Is Claiming Bannon’s speech rests on three assertions. First, that major European cities such as London, Paris, and Amsterdam have been “taken” by Islam without resistance. Second, that Islamic law is quietly advancing inside Western legal systems. Third, that Texas must act now by banning sharia law before it is “too late.” These claims are emotionally potent. They are also notably short on...