Actor Rob Schneider, who has become controversial in recent years over his ties to the MAGA movement, is publicly criticizing the Texas Republican Party, alleging that its leaders have allowed Islamic law to gain influence in the state.

Schneider, who has also drawn attention for promoting medical misinformation and unproven remedies for illnesses, posted his criticism on X on Monday. In the post, he targeted senior Republican officials in Texas, including Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and Ken Paxton, the state attorney general who is running for the U.S. Senate. The post was available at https://x.com/robschneider/status/2081694354238816538?s=46&t=cdIVxMmIPG5io6ExW9A9zA.

"I never thought I would watch the Islamic and Marxist threat seize large parts of our great nation," Schneider wrote. "For years we have seen the damage this alliance has done to Europe, and now we are witnessing the same damage unfolding in the blue states. What I never fully understood until recently is how deeply this threat is already embedded — and how rapidly it is gaining power —inside red states."

Schneider then listed what he presented as evidence that Texas is facing an Islamic takeover.

"Organizations with terror ties receive nonprofit status and political access while most elected officials either pander or look the other way," he wrote. Schneider also accused Texas of being complicit through taxpayer funding of "madrasas."

"Does anyone even care what is happening to the children trapped inside these abusive training schools that pump out imams? Your state has Sharia courts, Sharia judges, and Sharia patrols — and not one has been shut down," Schneider wrote.

Schneider did not identify specific courts, judges, patrols, or taxpayer-funded schools in the post. In the United States, religious rules or private religious arbitration do not override state or federal law, and civil courts remain bound by constitutional and statutory law.

He said he would continue speaking out until Texas politicians responded to what he described as a growing threat.

"I will keep speaking until every Texas politician takes this transformation seriously and understands the threat that every Texas citizen is up against — because this threat is advancing," Schneider wrote, while criticizing what he called "the protective circle around their most powerful elected leaders — Ken Paxton, Greg Abbott, and Dan Patrick."

Conspiracy theories alleging Islamic takeovers of Texas have circulated for years, often focusing on immigrant communities that have become established in the state. More recently, a moral panic developed around an Islamic event that had been planned at a water park in North Texas. The claims fit a broader pattern in which anti-Muslim narratives frame ordinary religious or community activity as evidence of a parallel legal system or political takeover.