.Uust a few weeks ago, Tarrant County GOP Chairman Bo French shook the political establishment with his groundbreaking exposé on militant Islamic networks operating in North Texas. The backlash was swift — and telling.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) — a Hamas-linked group with a long history of defending terrorists and extremists — immediately launched a smear campaign to discredit Bo French. They weren’t alone. A coordinated alliance of left-wing media outlets and compromised GOP operatives piled on, attacking him relentlessly for daring to speak the truth about the Islamic threat festering in our own backyard.
This wasn’t just political blowback — it was a coordinated assault, designed to silence one of the few Republican leaders in Texas brave enough to call out the radical ideologies taking root in our institutions.
But Bo French didn’t flinch. He doubled down.
Did you see radical Islamists are demanding I resign as the Tarrant County GOP Chair?
— Bo French (@BoFrenchTX) July 22, 2025
They hate the work I have done to expose them as a threat and now they're organizing a push to get me to step down.
I am not backing down and neither is the Tarrant County Republican Party.… pic.twitter.com/15d390lU1U
In this second installment, French goes even further — exposing the disturbing record of Imam Moujahed Bakhach, a man elevated by city councils, embraced by the Obama State Department, and allowed to teach at Texas schools, police academies, and even the Fort Worth Human Relations Commission.
He was also one of the key figures behind the creation of America’s first Islamic sharia tribunal, launched in Dallas to mirror the religious court systems used across the Middle East. While its organizers downplayed its function, the tribunal was intended to handle “civil disputes” under sharia — bypassing the U.S. Constitution and laying the groundwork for a parallel Islamic legal system in Texas. Imam Bakhach, a certified sharia mediator, served as one of its official judges. The move sparked national outrage, with critics warning it was the first step toward institutionalized Islamic governance — the kind seen in authoritarian Muslim-majority regimes, where women, non-Muslims, and dissidents face brutal oppression. Yet despite the backlash, Bakhach continued to gain influence — all while cloaking himself in the language of diversity and religious tolerance.
What Bo uncovered is chilling: Bakhach has direct ties to convicted Hamas financiers, served in organizations that raised money for terrorists, and claims to represent a Grand Mufti who preached jihad against Jews and Americans. He was also an active member of an Islamist group that hosted and cheered known terrorists.
This is the man Democrats and weak Republicans want you to believe represents “moderate Islam” in Texas.
Read Bo French’s most explosive report yet and help expose what they’re desperately trying to hide.
They tried to silence him. Now it’s time to make sure every Texan hears the truth.
Radical Islam in Tarrant County: Part 2 by Bo French
The entrenchment of radical Islam in our county is far worse than we described last week. Since our last report on radical Islam, CAIR has called for our Chairman to step down. Naturally, this has only motivated us to go further.
Today, we will show you that Tarrant County has a prominent Islamic leader with longstanding political connections who is deeply connected to pro-terrorist activity. His name is Moujahed Bakhach.
Imam Bakhach is the former imam for the Islamic Association of Tarrant County. He spent seven years as a member of Fort Worth’s Human Relations Commission, which is housed under the DEI Department. He has given the opening prayer for the Fort Worth City Council, Dallas Commissioners’ Court, and more.
He was the first imam to serve as “Pastor of the Day” in the Texas House. He has been interviewed countless times by prominent news outlets. He even served as an international ambassador for Islam under Obama’s Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. The liberal establishment has set him up as the poster child for Islam in North Texas. He even set up America’s first sharia tribunal.
Here’s the catch: he is deeply connected to jihadists and has even served in an organization that assisted criminals who raised money for Hamas.
To start, he had serious personal and professional connections to the men convicted of funneling money to terrorist organizations like Hamas. When the Holy Land Foundation officers were convicted of funding Hamas, Bakhach was photographed hugging defendant Mufid Abdulqadar at his trial in Dallas. Abdulqadar spent 16 years in prison for this crime. It should come as no surprise that he gave money to Hamas, considering his half-brother is Khaled Mashal, who led the Hamas Political Bureau from 1996 to 2017.
Bakhach has also served on the Board of Advisors for the Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA). He held this position while the Fund raised money in DFW for the defense of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) founders, who were imprisoned for funneling money to Hamas. One of them, Ghassan Elashi, whom Bakhach’s organization raised money for, received a 65-year prison sentence for his financial support of terrorism. Ghassan’s cousin, Mousa Abu Marzook, served as the Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from 1992 to 1996. Many other officers and board members for the MLFA, people with whom Bakhach served, were former members of the Holy Land Foundation.
The imam claims to have been the Texas representative for the Grand Mufti of Lebanon since 1982, the year he came to the United States. This means that he was the Mufti’s representative under Grand Mufti Mohammed Rashid Qabbani, who has had much to say about the Jews. Here’s a brief selection, with clips for proof:
- Qabbani has claimed that the Jews orchestrated 9/11.
- He issued a fatwa saying that “it is the Islamic duty to wage jihad to liberate Palestine” and that peace agreements with the Jews are null and void.
- He claims that Jews in Israel will “meet their fate” if they don’t leave, which will be “worse than the Holocaust.” He also suggests that the Holocaust did not happen.
- Qabbani has also stated that muslims “must wage jihad against Jews in Palestine and Americans in Iraq” and that “jihad is the slogan of our nation.”
Bakhach claims to have been this man’s representative in the State of Texas. Moujahed Bakhach also claims to have been an “active member” of the Muslim Arab Youth Association (MAYA) from 1984 to 1994. The timing here is interesting because MAYA became infamous in 1989 for its conference in Kansas City, Missouri, where it hosted and cheered avowed terrorists. One of the event’s guest speakers was a known Hamas terrorist named Sheikh Mohammed Siyyam, who has called for violent jihad against Israel, Jews, and Christians. It has been reported that the keynote speaker was proudly introduced as a man who had killed 16 Israelis in a bus attack. Attendees responded to this introduction with a rowdy “Allahu Akbar.” Bakhach was a member of this organization for years after this conference.
At a 1992 conference co-hosted by MAYA and the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) in Oklahoma City, one of the featured speakers was Kamal Helbawy, a representative of the Muslim Brotherhood. This event also occurred several years before Bakhach left the organization.
MAYA was also listed by the terroristic Muslim Brotherhood as an affiliate organization in 1991, while Bakhach claims to have been an “active member.” The US government reportedly placed MAYA on a list of organizations that “finance terrorism and perpetuate violence.”
Apart from his deep connections to and platforming by local and state governments, as well as the federal government, Bakhach has lectured at schools including TCU, Texas Women’s University, Dallas Theological Seminary. He has even taught at the Fort Worth Police Academy and “many high schools.”
No matter how much Democrats and their liberal Republican allies try to cover for radical Islam, we will not be fooled and will continue to expose it. People like this want our county destroyed. They think that sending their watchdogs in the liberal media will scare us off. No matter how many times CAIR, the leftist media, or other radicals come after us, we will not back down.
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