Houston, Texas Has a Radical Islamic Terrorism Problem
It's time for some adult talk
Howdy,
Believe me, the only thing that would bring me out of my first slumber is these pesky people who are murdering Afghan refugees across the country. What in the good fuck is going on, people?
Are Afghan Interpreters Being Targeted in America?
(GCV Note: We have permission from Jill Butler to cross-post her article in American Grit)
Another Afghan Refugee Killed
On 28 April 2025, Houston Police reported they were investigating a reported fatal shooting. The victim was—yet again—an Afghan refugee. According to national and local news, Abdul Rahman Waziri, an Afghan refugee who worked alongside United States Special Forces (USSF), was killed over a supposed argument over a parking spot.
Now, we’re just going to focus on Houston, Texas. These snippets are from various articles I wrote over the last year. These attacks are previous to the ones listed above.
In the early morning hours of January 1, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Army veteran from Houston, drove his rented truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 and injuring more than 50. In the more than two months since Jabbar’s attack, American law enforcement officials have detained two men charged with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State in Brooklyn and Minneapolis, respectively, illustrating persistent propaganda and recruitment efforts by jihadist groups.
On 8 October, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force detained Anas Said outside of his apartment in Houston, Texas, following a seven-year investigation. Said, who was born in Houston, TX, in 1996, was planning to conduct a “9-11 style” attack on the United States. If Said is found guilty, he could face up to 20 years in federal prison and a hefty fine.
ON JUNE 11, IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT agents arrested eight Tajik nationals with ties to the Islamic State in Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia. These men hailed from the same region as the Moscow attackers, underscoring the breadth of the Islamic State Khorasan Province’s reach. They’re not just factors in the Middle East and South Asia; they’ve now expanded into Central Asia, a prime recruiting ground that the Taliban is also exploiting.
“I think Islamic radicalism is making inroads throughout Central Asia, particularly among the youth,” Col. Abdul Rahman Rahmani, a counterterrorism officer in the former Afghan government, told The Bulwark. “It is dangerous for them and the region.”
Most importantly, some of the men crossed the southern border, requested asylum, and passed the initial screening. It wasn’t until members of the American intelligence community sniffed out some extremist rhetoric on social media that federal law enforcement scrambled to apprehend the men.
While the FBI is confident Jabbar acted alone, in October 2024, law enforcement officials arrested Said Anas in Houston, where Jabar resides, for providing material support to the Islamic State. Approximately 200,000 Muslims live in Houston, making it the largest Muslim population in Texas. As of 2024, Texas has the fifth-largest Muslim population in the United States. Additionally, Houston’s proximity to the southern border makes it a key point of interest for the Islamic State. For example, in June 2024, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified 400 immigrants brought to the United States through an IS-affiliated human smuggling network.
Please don’t get it twisted; many good people have come across the border seeking asylum. Further, the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Houston want nothing to do with these people and are just chasing the American dream!
GCV 6 Assessment: Houston, Texas, has a radical Islamic terrorism problem, and the FBI has not been able to get its hands around it. There are just too many blips on the radar screen for the FBI not to focus the majority of their counter-terrorism resources on Houston. My hunch is that they have not been able to penetrate the community with proper informants. Perhaps I’m wrong. And If I’m wrong, I’ll come on here and say I Was Wrong! It happens often enough that I don’t shy away from it.
And do yourself a solid. This was one of my better articles for
on this subject.