The Alamo, or San Antonio de Valero, was built as a Spanish Catholic mission many years before it became a makeshift fort during the Texas Revolution. But according to leftist revisionism and non-assimilating Muslims, it was… an Islamic building.
The demand that Texas schools falsely describe the Alamo as Islamic comes as part of a push from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to enforce revisionist history, emphasizing nonexistent Islamic contributions to the state on Texas schoolchildren. It is not clear why this push would even be under consideration at the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designated CAIR a foreign terrorist organization and a transnational criminal organization for its many ties to terrorists. Why would SBOE even entertain proposals from a designated terrorist organization?
Islamic activist groups are claiming that current Texas social studies standards are "exclusionary and Islamophobic," according to The Daily Wire. On participant in public testimony made the ridiculous and historically preposterous assertion that the Alamo is an Islamic building, according to American Faith.
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) and Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) both condemned the revisionism. Gill wrote on X, “Radical activists claimed the Alamo is an Islamic building. Now they’re lobbying Texas to insert fake Islamic history into our kids’ classrooms. I just sent a letter demanding the SBOE reject this revisionist garbage. Texas history is not up for rewriting.” Gill also wrote in a letter, "Islam did not play a role in the founding or development of Texas, and to say so would be an outright lie." Self angrily responded to the news, “The Alamo is NOT an Islamic building… Do not Sharia our Texas!”
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The Alamo's official website provides some history on the Catholic mission that later became so famous as the scene of a heroic last stand by Americans and Tejanos:
After several years of petitioning the Viceroy of New Spain, Baltasar de Zúñiga y Guzmán, Fray Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares was granted permission to establish a mission at the location of the San Antonio River, which Olivares had observed during an expedition in 1709. On May 1, 1718, Father Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares performed the rites and rituals establishing Mission San Antonio de Valero west of San Pedro Springs, located just a few miles from the headwaters of the San Antonio River. The mission was founded as a Spanish foothold in a territory that Spain rarely entered, with the intent to convert indigenous peoples to Catholicism and instruct them to become Spanish citizens. With the establishment of Mission Valero, the associated villa and presidio were also founded along San Pedro Creek by Martín de Alarcón on May 5, 1718...Daily life at the mission consisted of instruction in the Catholic faith, attending mass and prayers. In addition, the neophytes (indigenous residents of the mission) were taught the Spanish language and skills such as weaving, farming, masonry, and metal-working.
It certainly had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam.
But that is what Muslims do in every country to which they go — they try to impose sharia and rewrite history. There has never been a country where Muslims became a majority or even a powerful and sizable minority where they did not alter society and government. A recent example of a Christian nation that welcomed in too many fundamentalist Muslims and was taken over is Lebanon.
The Texas SBOE should throw out the Islamic revisionism immediately.
