{"id":251384,"date":"2026-04-15T20:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/251384\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T20:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:09:07","slug":"is-sharia-law-already-in-texas-sam-westrop-on-lets-talk-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/251384\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Sharia Law Already in Texas? | Sam Westrop on Let&#8217;s Talk Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Westrop, director of Islamist Watch at the Middle East Forum, joins Let\u2019s Talk Local to distinguish between Islam and Islamism, map the major Islamist networks operating in the West, and explain how policy failures have enabled their growth. He argues that targeted measures\u2014cutting funding, designating networks, and enforcing existing laws\u2014are necessary to counter their influence.<\/p>\n<p>TIMESTAMPS: <br \/><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EnJkcZ2fwnI&amp;t=150s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2:30<\/a>&#8211; How Sam landed in Texas <br \/><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EnJkcZ2fwnI&amp;t=274s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">4:34<\/a>&#8211; A breakdown of Islam and its different sects <br \/><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EnJkcZ2fwnI&amp;t=467s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">7:47<\/a>&#8211; Islam versus Islamism <br \/><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EnJkcZ2fwnI&amp;t=676s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">11:16<\/a>&#8211; Islamism and American politics <br \/><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EnJkcZ2fwnI&amp;t=1202s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">20:02<\/a>&#8211; Clip 1- Woman being punished under Sharia Law\/Deobandi movement <br \/><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EnJkcZ2fwnI&amp;t=1502s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">25:02<\/a>&#8211; Where has Islamism already started infiltrating our culture? <br \/><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EnJkcZ2fwnI&amp;t=1672s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">27:52<\/a>&#8211; Clip 2- Islamism is not here to coexist with Christians\/The growth of the Salafis <br \/><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EnJkcZ2fwnI&amp;t=1830s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">30:30<\/a>&#8211; The seven branches of Islam <br \/><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EnJkcZ2fwnI&amp;t=2207s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">36:47<\/a>&#8211; Clip 3- Islam is not here to assimilate-they are here to dominate by using our own laws <br \/><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EnJkcZ2fwnI&amp;t=2475s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">41:15<\/a>&#8211; Melting pot versus multiculturalism <br \/><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EnJkcZ2fwnI&amp;t=2820s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">47:00<\/a>&#8211; Why isn\u2019t the media covering this issue? <br \/><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EnJkcZ2fwnI&amp;t=3100s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">51:40<\/a>&#8211; Middle East Forum\u2019s plan for leaders to stop the spread of Islamism- 3 D\u2019s <br \/><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EnJkcZ2fwnI&amp;t=3516s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">58:36<\/a>&#8211; How can faith systems help stop the spread of Islamism? <br \/><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EnJkcZ2fwnI&amp;t=4151s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">1:09:11<\/a>&#8211; What YOU can do to help stop the spread of Islamism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Westrop, director of Islamist Watch at the Middle East Forum, joins Let\u2019s Talk Local to distinguish between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-251384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}