Halal Mandates, Sharia Deception: How Texas Is Funding Islamic Law While Politicians Pretend It’s Banned

While Governor Greg Abbott claims to have banned Sharia (Islamic law) in Texas, the truth is far more disturbing: Sharia is already being quietly implemented—funded by your tax dollars. This article is the first in a series exposing how Islamic law is infiltrating Texas institutions. We begin with the most pervasive—and most overlooked—front of Sharia enforcement: food.

From public schools and universities to prisons and government cafeterias, halal food mandates, terror-linked certification schemes, and bureaucratic submission are helping normalize Islamic law across the state—all disguised as cultural inclusion.

Halal Is Sharia—Not Just a Dietary Choice

The word “halal” means permissible in Arabic. But permissible according to what? According to Sharia—the totalitarian religious legal code of Islam.

In the context of food, halal is not just a benign preference like vegetarian or gluten-free. It is an explicitly religious practice, involving:

The slaughter of animals while facing Mecca,
A required Islamic prayer: “Bismillah Allahu Akbar” (In the name of Allah, Allah is the greatest),
A method of cutting the throat, windpipe, and esophagus,
No stunning allowed, as pain mitigation is forbidden under Islamic law.

The animal dies a slow, agonizing death, bleeding out while hung upside down—a ritual designed for submission, not compassion.

This is not just religious—it is ideological. It is a ritual declaration that Allah is greater than any other god, and that all food must be subjected to Islamic control.

Halal Isn’t Just a Personal Choice—It’s a Cultural Imposition

Perhaps the most critical issue with halal is this: it doesn’t stay in its lane.

Unlike Kosher, which is observed voluntarily by religious Jews for their own consumption without impacting others, halal demands cultural and institutional conformity.

Jews who keep Kosher do not attempt to remove non-Kosher foods from public spaces or prevent others from eating pork. Their dietary choice is personal, private, and non-impositional.

In contrast, halal is rarely confined to the individual Muslim. Instead, it becomes a tool to reshape entire systems:

In many cafeterias, food courts, and stores—including some Costco locations—providers switch entirely to halal to avoid the logistical and financial burden of offering two separate food systems. Under Islamic rules, halal products cannot share the same storage, preparation spaces, or even refrigerators as non-halal items. That means two sets of fridges, prep stations, utensils, and staff protocols—a cost most vendors aren’t willing to bear. As a result, it’s easier and cheaper to serve halal to everyone, even if the majority neither want nor require it.
In schools and public institutions, Muslims have claimed that non-halal food, particularly pork, is offensive or ‘contaminating’, leading administrators to remove or reduce those options entirely—even for non-Muslim students.
In prisons and military settings, halal often becomes the default option because it satisfies Islamic law and is ‘good enough’ for everyone else—regardless of cost or belief.
Over time, halal becomes the path of least resistance for administrators and vendors—cheaper to implement one standard than risk lawsuits or complaints. But Sharia dictates that ‘one standard’ be followed.

This is not accommodation. It’s submission—a quiet, bureaucratic surrender of food policy, cultural norms, and public space to Islamic standards.

Halal thus functions not as a dietary preference, but as an instrument of Islamic supremacy. It creates a system where everyone—Muslim or not—eats in accordance with Sharia, often without knowing it, without consenting to it, and with no way to opt out.

Texas Public Institutions Are Quietly Enforcing Sharia Compliance

Despite Texas voters overwhelmingly rejecting the implementation of Sharia law, state-funded institutions are actively enforcing Sharia-compliant practices under the radar—starting with food. Through school lunch programs, university dining halls, and prison meal policies, halal compliance has become a taxpayer-funded norm across the state.

1. Texas Public Schools Are Serving Halal

Harmony Science Academy – Cedar Park, a state-supported charter school, offers a full halal menu for breakfast and lunch. The meals comply with Islamic slaughter rules—animals are killed while facing Mecca, without stunning, and with prayers to Allah.
In March 2025, Texas Representative, Pakistani-American Salman Bhojani Lalani, a Democrat, introduced House Bill 667 during the 89th Texas Legislature. The bill would require public schools to provide halal food upon request—not just in Muslim-majority areas, but in any county with a population over 2.1 million or any county bordering one. That includes Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio. If passed, the law would take effect as early as September 1, 2025, forcing every public district in these areas to accommodate Sharia-compliant meals—even if it violates the beliefs of Christian, Jewish, or secular families. This is not religious neutrality—it is state-sanctioned Sharia enforcement, embedded into public education using your tax dollars.
These meals are funded through the National School Lunch Program and state education budgets, meaning your tax dollars are supporting ritual Islamic slaughter being normalized in Texas classrooms.

2. Texas Universities Are Now Halal Compliant

Halal isn’t limited to K–12. State-funded universities are helping embed Sharia norms into student life:

At the University of Texas at Austin, halal food was introduced in 2020 after lobbying from Muslim student associations. Today, students can eat halal chicken and beef in dining halls subsidized by state funding and student fees.
Southern Methodist University (SMU) and University of Houston (UH) have gone even further, with dedicated halal stations, halal-certified food trucks, and “grab-and-go” halal meat options.
University of North Texas (UNT) has a digital icon marking halal-certified ingredients in its dining software.

All of these schools are supported by state appropriations and public tax dollars—yet their dining programs are being reshaped around the rules of Islamic law, not secular neutrality.

3. Texas Prisons Are Accommodating Halal Meals

Inmates in Texas prisons and jails have increasingly demanded halal meals as a religious right. Lawsuits filed under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) have forced compliance in some cases.
The Dallas County Jail began offering halal meals as early as 2010 following public and legal pressure. Inmates now receive meals prepared according to Islamic standards—paid for by county taxpayers.
In 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in favor of a Muslim inmate who claimed he was denied halal meals during a natural disaster evacuation, signaling that even emergency protocols must defer to Sharia-based dietary demands.
The Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA) is pressuring prisons nationwide—including in Texas—to institutionalize halal meal policies, pushing Sharia compliance deeper into the penal system.

This isn’t religious freedom—it’s legal leverage being used to embed Sharia dietary law into state-run facilities using your money.

The Bottom Line:

Across Texas:

Your property taxes pay for halal meals in public schools.
Your university tuition and state education dollars support halal kitchens and certifications.
Your county and state tax dollars fund halal meals in jails and prisons—even if they cost more.

And this is all happening under the radar, framed as “inclusion,” when in reality it is submission to Islamic legal norms, Sharia.

Halal Certification: A Terror-Linked Islamic Tax

For food to be officially halal, it must be certified—by Islamic organizations, many of which have ties to terrorism:

The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which is established by U.S.-based members of the Muslim Brotherhood, is one of the largest halal certifiers. It was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in U.S. history (Holy Land Foundation), for funneling money to Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.
CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), a Hamas-linked group, has fought to legalize halal animal sacrifice in residential neighborhoods, calling it a religious freedom issue.

The halal certification process is effectively an Islamic tax, where American companies pay Muslim organizations to approve their food as compliant with Sharia. These fees fund Islamic expansion, lobbying, and litigation.

Halal Meat Is Not Required by Islam—So Why Is It Mandatory for Americans?

The Quran explicitly allows Muslims to eat non-halal food if halal is unavailable. Halal is not required in non-Muslim lands. So why are schools, prisons, and hospitals bending over backwards to serve halal food?

Because this isn’t about diet—it’s about dominance.

Halal food has been weaponized to:

Normalize Sharia compliance in secular institutions,
Finance Islamic organizations, many of them radical,
Force non-Muslims to unknowingly consume food sacrificed to Allah.

Many Christians object to halal on biblical grounds. Acts 15:29 warns believers to “abstain from food sacrificed to idols.” Yet halal meat—slaughtered with Islamic prayers and offered to Allah—is routinely served in public institutions without labeling or disclosure. As a result, Christians and others are consuming meat dedicated to a foreign deity, often unknowingly.

Pastor Mark Biltz has warned that this represents more than religious compromise—it is what he calls “backdoor Sharia”: the gradual imposition of Islamic law under the banner of tolerance. Pat Robertson, the late Christian leader and media figure, similarly warned about halal’s connection to terrorist-linked certification networks and the spiritual dangers of allowing Islamic rituals to permeate American life.

But this is not only a spiritual crisis—it is a constitutional one.

Under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, government institutions are forbidden from showing preference to one religion over others. Yet taxpayer-funded entities in Texas are doing exactly that—serving halal meals to Muslims while ignoring dietary needs of Christians and Jews.

If schools provide halal food on request but not Kosher meals for Jewish students or Lenten-friendly meals for Christians, this is government favoritism toward Islam at the expense of all other faiths.

We have already seen this imbalance institutionalized in Dearborn, Michigan, where Muslim dietary law dominates public school cafeterias, and other religions are given little to no accommodation.

This is not religious equality. It’s state-sponsored Islamic privilege—bankrolled by taxpayers.

The Global Halal Cartel: Born from the Ayatollahs and Big Business

French anthropologist Florence Bergeaud-Blackler exposed the origins of the global halal market in her book Le marché halal ou l’invention d’une tradition.

Her research shows that halal food, as we know it today, was manufactured in the 1970s and 1980s by Islamic fundamentalists and multinational corporations.

After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iran and Saudi Arabia competed to export their brand of Islam.
Nestlé and other agrifood giants partnered with Muslims to build a global halal market.
The result: a billion-dollar industry used to fund mosques, madrassas, and Sharia enforcement globally.

This is not tradition—it is strategy.

The Cruelty of Halal: Betraying Western Values

Western societies banned animal cruelty long ago. But halal ignores these standards:

No stunning. No anesthesia. No compassion.
Just ritual slaughter with religious incantations.

And yet, Western governments not only permit this—they endorse it. In Texas and across the West, our governments have betrayed our values for fear of offending Islamic sensibilities.

Even mainstream watchdog groups acknowledge that halal slaughter contradicts the humane standards required in most Western food processing laws. Yet exemptions are granted under religious freedom laws—making cruelty acceptable so long as it’s cloaked in Islamic ritual.

Halal Is Not Multiculturalism—It’s Civilizational Surrender

Halal isn’t being openly debated and chosen—it’s being slipped into policy, quietly normalized, and enforced over time under false pretenses like ‘diversity’ or ‘cultural respect’—but make no mistake: it’s Sharia compliance, funded by you.

Until Texas bans halal food from all public institutions— Until halal meat is clearly labeled— Until terror-linked certification schemes are dismantled—

—we are subsidizing our own civilizational defeat.

This is not dietary accommodation. This is backdoor Sharia jihad, and it is being waged with food, finance, and fear.

Texans must get involved. The real threat isn’t some future Islamic court. The threat is already here—served on your child’s lunch tray, approved in your prison cafeteria, and pushed through legislation under the guise of reasonable accommodation.

The halal industry is not a dietary choice. It is a political weapon. And every time a Texas institution complies, it is one more victory for Sharia—and one more defeat for American values.

But this is not only a spiritual crisis—it is a constitutional one.

We have already seen this imbalance institutionalized in Dearborn, Michigan, where Muslim dietary law dominates public school cafeterias, and other religions are given little to no accommodation.

This is not religious equality. It’s state-sponsored Islamic privilege—bankrolled by taxpayers.

The Global Halal Cartel: Born from the Ayatollahs and Big Business

French anthropologist Florence Bergeaud-Blackler exposed the origins of the global halal market in her book Le marché halal ou l’invention d’une tradition.

Her research shows that halal food, as we know it today, was manufactured in the 1970s and 1980s by Islamic fundamentalists and multinational corporations.

After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iran and Saudi Arabia competed to export their brand of Islam.
Nestlé and other agrifood giants partnered with Muslims to build a global halal market.
The result: a billion-dollar industry used to fund mosques, madrassas, and Sharia enforcement globally.

This is not tradition—it is strategy.

The Cruelty of Halal: Betraying Western Values

Western societies banned animal cruelty long ago. But halal ignores these standards:

No stunning. No anesthesia. No compassion.
Just ritual slaughter with religious incantations.

And yet, Western governments not only permit this—they endorse it. In Texas and across the West, our governments have betrayed our values for fear of offending Islamic sensibilities.

Halal Is Not Multiculturalism—It’s Civilizational Surrender

Until Texas bans halal food from all public institutions— Until halal meat is clearly labeled— Until terror-linked certification schemes are dismantled—

—we are subsidizing our own civilizational defeat.

This is not dietary accommodation. This is backdoor Sharia jihad, and it is being waged with food, finance, and fear.

The halal industry is not a dietary choice. It is a political weapon. And every time a Texas institution complies, it is one more victory for Sharia—and one more defeat for American values.

Boycott Halal

Final Call to Action:

Texans: This must stop.

Reach out to your legislators and demand that they put an end to the forced spread of halal and the broader backdoor enforcement of Sharia law in public life.

Reject Texas House Bill 667, which proposes mandatory halal food accommodations in public schools. This bill is not about inclusion—it is about submission. It is about using your tax dollars to institutionalize Islamic dietary law in classrooms filled with children of all faiths.

Demand equal treatment for all religions—or better yet, insist on neutrality. No taxpayer-funded school, university, or prison should be enforcing Islamic law in any form, especially while ignoring the needs and rights of Jews, Christians, and non-believers.

Educate your community. Share this article. Refuse to purchase halal-certified products or support halal restaurants. Learn to identify halal labels and avoid funding a system that supports Islamic supremacy under the guise of tolerance. Websites like Zabihah.com are designed to map out halal-certified establishments—use them in reverse: to know what to avoid. Every dollar spent at these businesses helps expand Sharia compliance in your community, often without your knowledge or consent.