(The Center Square)–A Texas mayor appears to be the first to issue a proclamation banning Islamic Sharia law.
Keller Mayor Armin Mizani signed a proclamation “affirming constitutional supremacy, American sovereignty, and rejection of foreign legal systems,” stating that the U.S. and Texas constitutions “alone define the lawful framework for governance, justice, and civil order within this city.”
“In Keller, we are governed by American law, NEVER foreign legal systems like Sharia law or Sharia courts,” Mizani said in an X post. “As Mayor, I take my oath to the Constitution seriously. That’s why I have issued a proclamation affirming a simple principle: one U.S. Constitution, one legal system, and equal justice under the law. No competing legal systems have authority here.”
Keller is located in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex in Tarrant County and has a population of about 50,000.
The city “affirms that no foreign law, religious law, or external system of governance shall have any legal force or recognition within its jurisdiction and sharia law, sharia courts, and any other foreign or religious based systems are not recognized, authorized, or permitted to operate as civil or judicial authority within the city … and shall have no standing in municipal governance, adjudication, or public policy,” the proclamation states.
It also affirms the First Amendment rights of “every individual to freedom of religion, belief, expression, and peaceful worship, while making clear that religious belief does not confer authority to establish parallel legal systems or supersede civil law.”
Mizani said issuing the proclamation was “just the first step.” He plans to work with city council members “to permanently codify these principles,” he said. Mizani previously served on the city council from 2014 to 2020, when he was elected mayor.
He is now running for Texas House District 98, whose incumbent, state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, R-Southlake, announced his retirement. Capriglione won 68% of the vote in the last election in the Republican-dominant district.
In total, three Republicans and two Democrats are running for the seat in March primaries.
Mizani, who was born and raised in Puerto Rico, said, “Texans should never apologize for our heritage or our values; instead, we should fight for them.”
The proclamation was issued as Texas lawmakers are leading an anti-Sharia law movement at the state and federal level, The Center Square reported.
U.S. Reps. Chip Roy and Keith Self, both Texas Republicans, last week launched a new Sharia-Free America Caucus in the U.S. House to “counter the alarming rise of Sharia Law in the United States,” they said. “Sharia is a dominating force that is not compatible with the U.S. Constitution.”
This is after they filed the Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act in October to prevent foreign nationals who follow Sharia law from entering the U.S. or from remaining in the country, The Center Square reported. Roy, who is running for attorney general, argues, “America is facing an existential threat – the spread of Sharia Law.”
Last month, Gov. Greg Abbott, who is running for reelection next year, issued three directives targeting Islamic groups, first designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on Islamic American Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations. CAIR sued and maintains it is not a terrorist organization and doesn’t fund terrorism.
Abbott also directed the Texas Department of Public Safety to launch criminal investigations into the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR and ordered an investigation into an Islamic Tribunal operating in north Texas in Self’s district that claims to make judicial rulings.
One week after Abbott’s FTO designation, President Donald Trump designated the Muslim Brotherhood as an FTO. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, also refiled a bill he’s filed multiple times over 10 years to ban all Muslim Brotherhood members from the U.S.
Abbott also requested the Treasury Department to investigate CAIR for its alleged terrorist ties and suspend its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit status, The Center Square reported.
Last week, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, introduced legislation to allow the Treasury Department to terminate the tax-exempt status of groups that provide material support to terrorism, which he argues includes CAIR.
“CAIR is a radical group of terrorist sympathizers with a long history of undermining American values and trying to unconstitutionally impose Sharia Law on Texas, which is why I stand behind Governor Abbott’s decision to designate it as a foreign terrorist organization,” Cornyn, who is running for reelection in a tough primary race, said in a statement.
He also called on Trump to designate CAIR as an FTO “at the federal level to ensure this breeding ground for anti-American hate is starved of funding and forced to close its doors once and for all.”
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
Right on! Keep control of those rabid animals, otherwise all hell will eventually break loose if those rabid animals think it time to act. Next on the list should be to deport everyone of those Islamic demons, they will never assimilate.
MUSLIMS SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED IN THE USA !!!!!!!!!!! BURN DOWN ALL MOSQUES AND DEPORT THESE SAVAGES