Chameleon Magazine

A modest community plan by a Muslim organisation gets an apocalyptic rebrand thanks to some Grade-A fearmongering from Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who appears to believe that suburban zoning laws are just one step away from a caliphate. EPIC City—an ambitious name for what currently amounts to a planning sketch—has now been redubbed The Meadow, presumably to stop triggering people who think minarets come with missile launchers.

🐮 From “Muslim City” to “Sharia Strip Mall” – The Fear Circus in Full Swing

So let’s get this straight: a group of American Muslims proposes a housing development. No bulldozers. No building permits. No infrastructure. Just blueprints. And yet, it somehow inspires Texas officials to have full-blown Constitution-themed heart palpitations. Abbott practically accused them of erecting a theocracy with cul-de-sacs, as if HOA rules are going to be rewritten in Arabic.

And because EPIC City sounded a little too… well, epic, they’ve now gone with The Meadow—a name so gentle it could double as a sleep aid. What’s next? Accusing a halal food truck of declaring independence?

But here’s the kicker: the same folks waving flags for “freedom” and “private property rights” suddenly break into cold sweats when Muslims dare to use those rights. Meanwhile, Christian nationalist compounds get tax breaks, and nobody blinks when a megachurch builds a private police force. That’s just “faith-based initiative,” right?

So let’s call this what it is: a pre-emptive culture war tantrum over a development that doesn’t even exist yet. The only thing “imposing” here is the volume of hypocrisy echoing from the governor’s office.

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Why is “Muslim suburb” treated like a four-alarm fire while evangelical theme parks and doomsday prepper ranches get zoning fast-tracked? Are we allergic to consistency—or just selective about who gets to build community?

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