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The Texas Muslim development

A housing development planned by a group of wealthy Muslim professionals in Texas — twenty-five or thirty large houses on an empty tract with a mosque at the centre, marketed to other Muslim doctors, lawyers and engineers. John Kiriakou cites the alarm it caused, up to and including Governor Greg Abbott, as a case study in unnecessary panic.

The Texas Muslim development is a property scheme John Kiriakou discussed in July 2026 as an example of what he considers a needlessly divisive American panic.

The scheme

A friend in Texas had written to tell him about the kerfuffle. A group of wealthy Muslims — most of them doctors — had bought a large empty piece of land and were developing it: twenty-five or thirty giant houses to be built, with a mosque at the centre. They were pitching the development to other Muslims, other doctors and lawyers and engineers and professionals.[1]

The reaction and his answer

In Kiriakou’s account people panicked to the point that the governor weighed in — “Oh my god, it’s going to be jihad in Texas.”[2]

His reply is deflationary on every axis. “No, Dr Muhammad, the brain surgeon, is not going to make a holy war against you.” The development is, in his reading, simply about Muslims wanting to live around other Muslims — and, he adds, they are all millionaires, they are all going to have nice houses, and they are all going to contribute to the tax base.[2][3]

He places the episode inside a category of American disputes he thinks are manufactured: an issue “that is dividing Americans unnecessarily,” which he says he intends to keep explaining in plain English because it is not something anybody should be afraid of.[3]

See also

References

  1. John Kiriakou, 2026-07-1639:49 on YouTube · Transcript
  2. John Kiriakou, 2026-07-1640:22 on YouTube · Transcript
  3. John Kiriakou, 2026-07-1640:52 on YouTube · Transcript

Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.