Republican Texas Agricultural Commissioner Sid Miller is doubling down on an Islamophobic social media post after being called out by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Last week, Miller posted a meme on his official Facebook account that depicts Islam as a snake squeezing a cowboy’s leg with a knife labeled “solution” being used to kill the serpent.
“It’s about that time…” Miller captioned the post, sparking outrage among Texas Muslims.
Miller is no stranger to firing off bigoted and outrageous comments on social media. He once faced criticism for calling then-Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton a “cunt” and has shared fake news on his Facebook feed to discredit Islam.
CAIR — a top Muslim civil-rights and advocacy nonprofit — issued a statement Sunday blasting Miller for portraying Islam as a threat that needs to be eradicated.
“Scapegoating is only used by weak politicians as a tool of distraction from accountability, and is a sign of failure,” CAIR-Texas Operations Manager Shaimaa Zayan said in a statement. “Muslims are not a threat. We are doctors, professors, lawyers, business owners, public servants and an essential part of the Texan and U.S. fabric.”
Despite CAIR’s admonishment, Miller doubled down, writing in a Tuesday press release, stating he stands by his “warning about the dangers of radical Islam in Texas.”
“Radical Islamic terrorism is a cancer on the world,” Miller said. “C.A.I.R., an affiliate of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood and a financier of Hamas, is a domestic terrorist organization and should be dismantled.”
CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a 2008 federal trial that targeted an organization alleged to be funding terror group Hamas.
Even so, CAIR has long disputed these claims. In a 2014 statement, the group wrote that it “unequivocally condemns all acts of terrorism” by any group, and it has used its platform to condemn antisemitism.
Islamophobia has been on the rise in Texas and nationally this year. CAIR tallied 8,658 Islamophobic attacks in the U.S. during 2024, the highest recorded since the organization began keeping tabs in 1996.
Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton earlier this year ordered an investigation into EPIC City, a Muslim-focussed residential development in North Texas, citing concerns that the ethnic enclave could be an attempt to bring Sharia law to the Lone Star State.
The U.S. Department of Justice dropped a separate investigation into EPIC City in June, and civil-rights groups maintain that state and national Republican leaders have lied about the development in attempt to spin up public paranoia.
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