Outgoing Texas GOP chair tells Muslim delegates to 'leave our caucus'
Source: Raw Story/Texas Tribune
June 15, 2026 5:21PM ET
HOUSTON To some extent, Mohamed Hussein knew he was preparing to enter the lions den. But he made the decision to attend the Republican Party of Texas Convention to confirm for himself that he had a place in the GOP, even as members of the party have railed for months about the urgency of ending Sharia Law and the so-called Islamification of Texas.
What he found was a party that didnt want him. He arrived with hope, but left in tears after being told explicitly that he should leave the country.
Hussein was among four Muslims who arrived at the convention in earnest not as protesters, but as delegates or attendees to participate in the annual meeting of the states most hard-lined Republicans as they vote on the partys priorities and hear from GOP leaders. Two prevailing themes from the Houston gathering were party unity and combatting Sharia Law, a movement that veered into outright Islamophobia by members of the convention.
When they say Sharia-free, that means Muslim-free, no practices of Islam, Hussein said in an interview with The Texas Tribune. No one is calling for the state to implement Sharia laws. Hussein said he was in disbelief that he was told to convert or leave for the first time in his life at a Republican convention with the tagline, Unity drives victory.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/texas-gop-2677043224/
Why anyone of conscience could believe that GOP flatulence is the finest of perfumes, boggles the mind, and brings up doubts about their sanity.
Skittles
(173,466 posts)UpInArms
(55,572 posts)Silly rabbit, tricks are for kids
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Why anyone thinks that there is any diversity allowed in the all white male Guardians of Pedophiles is beyond me.
Baitball Blogger
(52,816 posts)What did he expect?
Joinfortmill
(21,860 posts)They need to do some hard thinking about who they are and who the republican party is and who they represent.
IronLionZion
(51,659 posts)but GOP chooses hate more often than not.
I'm still hoping Mamdani implements Shakira Law and for a Biblical exodus of Republicans leaving NYC


Ray Bruns
(6,893 posts)I could get behind that.
Biophilic
(6,756 posts)They must be able to block out 90% of what is happening and being said around them. How do they do that?
JBTaurus83
(1,800 posts)That hates other people. He just doesnt want to be one of the hated. Zero sympathy, in fact, hes one of the worst among us.
Javaman
(66,018 posts)Wonder Why
(7,327 posts)niyad
(135,029 posts)the answer is always, HELL YES!!!"
niyad
(135,029 posts)nationalist christian (nat-c for short, thank you Mrs. Betty Bowers) evangelical, cherry-picked bible bs in this SECULAR nation is just fine.
sakabatou
(46,501 posts)JustAnotherGen
(38,176 posts)For this man. He wanted to be white male adjacent. They turned on him.
ToxMarz
(3,135 posts)radical noodle
(10,728 posts)How can they even consider being part of the GOP at this moment in history? They have to know what the party is now.
Floyd R. Turbo
(33,593 posts)VBNMW_Realist
(7 posts)People like him had no problem when it came to women or even Black people, who are harmed in those types of countries, especially with patriarchy being deeply embedded in Islam. But he probably thinks that it would not be a problem and that it was all hype and that they wouldn't care about one Muslim or even five and might even appreciate it as a show of token diversity.
Ironically it is likely that his involvement in the Republican Party is a byproduct of being a Muslim in the same way that the evangelical Christians are. But they could not tolerate a different religion. And in his own country, he probably wouldn't tolerate white Christians either to be fair.
dalton99a
(96,007 posts)Do not sit down with terrorist organizations, a passerby at the convention told a woman sitting next Halabi. You know theyre CAIR, right?
I care about everybody, Halabi responded, trying to make light of the moment.
Shortly later, another attendee approached Halabi and told her to leave the country.
She wept into her husbands chest.
Halabi, a teacher, declined to say how she would vote in November, but said that she is a Republican and always votes.
Halabi and her husband, Amjad Muhtaseb, were both registered as delegates for the convention.
They hope to bring more Muslims into the Republican Party.