Hey, y’all down there in Texas! Did you know that the Alamo really was Islamic?
That stunner was included in a letter to state education officials warning them against the “false history” that some interests are trying to inject into the state’s history.
“It has come to our attention that an extensive lobbying effort is underway to have the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) alter curriculum standards in a way that would diminish American and Texas history,” Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, and other Texas Republicans wrote to education officials.
“The petitioners’ efforts claim that Islam influenced our founding, culture, and way of life. For instance, the (board) recently responded to public testimony asserting that the Alamo is an Islamic building.
“Such claims are intended to introduce sensationalized or false history into our curriculum, and it is not the (board’s) responsibility to accommodate flagrant lies or cultivate spurious claims of their belonging,” the letter said.
Members of the Islamic community long have demanded positive portrayals of their religion, which advocates for the beheading of those who are not what the Founding Fathers would have known as “Mahometans,” to the point some have claimed that Muslims were active and integral in the founding of America. There is no evidence for that, although the Founding Fathers did provide protections for religion in their work.
The Alamo originally was a Spanish mission started by Catholic missionaries and was one of the early establishments in Texas to be used to convert American tribes to Christianity.
It was secularized in the late 1700s and abandoned, but later turned into a fortress for what then was the Republic of Texas, and became the site of the Battle of the Alamo in which Mexican forces obtained a short-lived victory in their failed war to reclaim Texas.
Here’s exactly what I sent: pic.twitter.com/vEWLexTAR4
— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) April 10, 2026
Radical activists claimed the Alamo is an Islamic building. Now they’re lobbying Texas to insert fake Islamic history into our kids’ classrooms.
I just sent a letter demanding the SBOE reject this revisionist garbage. Texas history is not up for rewriting.…
— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) April 10, 2026
Online commenters turned blunt, with, “How in the hell can the Alamo be remotely Islamic …” and “Hell no!!! The Alamo has absolutely nothing to do with Islam! They have no right to change its history. Make home schooling the new teaching so these demons cannot get ahold of our children.”
A report at the Daily Wire said Texas education officials are facing pressure “from leftist activists” … “to place more positive references to Islam in the state’s history curriculum.”
The report explained state officials are reviewing social studies standards “amid a push from Muslim advocacy groups, which claim current proposals are ‘exclusionary and Islamophobic.’”
Republicans have warned about providing a positive image to groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a group that was designated as a terrorist organization by Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott.
CAIR has denied any connection to terrorism and has sued the state over the designation. But it was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Trial, which was over fundraising efforts in America for Islamic terrorists in the Middle East.
Muslims claim they are fighting “Islamophobia” in the state, but Gill confirmed Islam played no major role in the founding or development of Texas.
“Students should be taught age-appropriate facts and hard-truths, even when it is uncomfortable. Islam did not play a role in the founding or development of Texas, and to say so would be an outright lie,” he said.