OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM ACCOUNTABILITY MATTERS and DEFENDING OUR REPUBLIC
Christian Women Forced to Cancel Peaceful Protest Against Hamas-Linked Group Due to Targeted Intimidation
April 26, 2025
It is with a heavy heart that Accountability Matters and Defending our Republic announces the cancellation of our planned peaceful protest against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) at the Texas State Capitol on April 29.
This decision was not made lightly, but was necessitated by escalating threatening language and what feels like deliberate intimidation directed at our members—particularly the Christian women who courageously organized this event.
Our protest was intended to raise awareness about CAIR’s documented associations with terrorism-linked entities, including its designation as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation trial, which exposed CAIR’s deep connections to Hamas.
We also sought to spotlight CAIR’s growing influence over Texas schools, law enforcement, and legislation.
However, in the days following our announcement, our organizers were met with a coordinated campaign of smears, false accusations, and inflammatory rhetoric from CAIR and its political allies.
The resulting environment of fear and insecurity made it impossible, in good conscience, to proceed with the rally.
The safety of our members and their families must come first.
This disturbing situation highlights the very issue we sought to protest: the suppression of dissent through intimidation.
The right to peacefully assemble and speak out is guaranteed by the Constitution. When that right is threatened by an organization with known ties to foreign terror networks, Americans must take notice.
Our decision comes as CAIR reels from mounting scandals—including national outrage over what was falsely presented as a hate crime in Houston, when a schoolyard fight was exploited by CAIR to push a false narrative of anti-Muslim bigotry. Houston Independent School District later contradicted CAIR’s claims, confirming that the incident was unrelated to religion or race.
The controversy appeared timed to manipulate public sympathy and draw attention away from an active state investigation into the EPIC City development project, tied to radical cleric Yasir Qadhi.
Make no mistake:
• CAIR is desperate to silence critics as public scrutiny intensifies.
• CAIR’s intimidation campaign proves our point—that it is not a civil rights group but a political weapon of coercion and subversion.
• CAIR’s tactics confirm why Texans must demand that their state cut all ties with groups linked to terrorism.The women who organized this protest were driven not by hate—but by love for Texas, for truth, and for America’s founding principles.
They have now been bullied off the Capitol steps by an organization that weaponizes victimhood, suppresses opposition, and manipulates public institutions to serve an extremist agenda.
While the protest has been canceled, the mission is not. We will not be silenced. We will not back down.
Accountability Matters and Defending our Republic remain fully committed to fighting for transparency, national security, and the protection of constitutional freedoms.
We urge Texas lawmakers to take up where we leave off: Investigate CAIR. Cut all government ties. Protect the people of Texas.
Texas must immediately follow the lead of Florida—and even the Biden administration—by severing all ties with Hamas-linked CAIR.
After the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians, CAIR’s national director, Nihad Awad, publicly celebrated the attacks, saying he was “happy” to see Palestinians break the siege.
The Biden White House condemned and publicly distanced itself from CAIR, calling Awad’s remarks “reprehensible.”
In 2024, Florida’s House overwhelmingly passed HR 1209, formally condemning CAIR’s terror ties and urging all government agencies to cut all contact.
Texas must do the same. Texans deserve leaders who defend them—not groups tied to terrorism and extremist ideology.
This is not the end. This is the beginning of a broader movement.
Because accountability still matters. And so does truth.
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