Peter Montgomery’s February 20, 2026 Right Wing Watch article for People For reports that anti-Muslim rhetoric is being used by Christian-nationalist and MAGA-aligned actors as an organizing and electoral frame, especially in Texas, where Sharia-law panic and hostile prayer-war language are presented as political tools.
In Montgomery’s interpretation, Christian nationalism appears not only as Christian-majoritarian rhetoric but as a selective model of religious liberty that treats Muslim visibility, worship, and public participation as suspect. Montgomery, drawing on other reporting, presents anti-Muslim rhetoric as a substitute mobilizing issue amid reduced border-related messaging. That causal interpretation remains attributed to the article.
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