Eighteen months ago Republicans in Texas took on a new fight(发起了一场新的斗争). It began in February 2025, when Greg Abbott, the governor, described a housing development proposed by the East Plano Islamic Centre as an example of “sharia cities(沙里亚城市（指实行伊斯兰教法的城市）)”. A dozen state agencies then launched investigations. In November he designated the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), America’s biggest Muslim civil-rights group, a “foreign terrorist organisation” and barred it from buying land in the state.(11月，他将美国伊斯兰关系委员会（CAIR）指定为“外国恐怖组织”，并禁止其在州内购买土地。) In March the state comptroller shut Muslim schools out of Texas’s new voucher scheme(代金券计划（教育券）). The state Republican Party now ranks “Stop the Islamification of Texas” second on its list of legislative priorities.
十八个月前，得克萨斯州的共和党人开启了一场新的斗争。这场斗争始于2025年2月，当时州长格雷格·阿博特将东普莱诺伊斯兰中心提议的住房开发项目描述为“沙里亚城市”的一个例子。十几个州机构随后展开了调查。同年11月，他将美国最大的穆斯林民权组织——美国伊斯兰关系委员会（CAIR）指定为“外国恐怖组织”，并禁止其在州内购买土地。3月，州审计长将穆斯林学校排除在得克萨斯州新的代金券计划之外。如今，该州共和党将“阻止得克萨斯伊斯兰化”列为立法优先事项的第二位。
On its face, this looks like a revival of the backlash(强烈反对、反弹) to radical Islam that followed the 9/11 attacks. But today’s campaign is driven by fear not so much of external violence as of internal transformation. Across the country, support is swelling for ideas that fuse American civic life with Christian values, loosely defined as Christian nationalism(基督教民族主义). How this agenda will evolve is still unclear. But Texas, America’s largest Republican state, is now showing one way forward, asserting America’s Christian roots while battling fiercely against a perceived threat.
表面上看，这似乎是9/11袭击后对激进伊斯兰的反弹的复兴。但今天的运动更多是源于对内部转变的恐惧，而非外部暴力。在全国范围内，将美国公民生活与基督教价值观融合的理念（广义上称为基督教民族主义）正在获得越来越多的支持。这一议程将如何演变尚不清楚。但作为美国最大的共和党州，得克萨斯州现在正展示出一条前进道路：在坚决对抗一种被认为的威胁的同时，维护美国的基督教根基。
“The United States of America was founded as a Christian nation,” Mr Abbott stated earlier this year, as part of a defence of religious freedom. Other prominent proponent(倡导者、支持者)s of America’s Christian identity include J.D. Vance, the vice-president, Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, and Charlie Kirk, a conservative influencer assassinated in 2025. Kirk, to whom Donald Trump posthumously(死后地、追授地) awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom(总统自由勋章，美国最高平民荣誉), tied America’s Christian character to a specific composition of citizenry. America, he argued, was living through a “constitutional crisis” because “you cannot have liberty if you do not have a Christian population”.(他认为，美国正在经历一场“宪法危机”，因为“如果没有基督教人口，你就无法拥有自由”。)
“美利坚合众国是作为一个基督教国家建立的，”阿博特先生在今年早些时候说，作为对宗教自由辩护的一部分。其他美国基督教身份的主要倡导者包括副总统J.D.万斯、战争部长皮特·赫格塞斯，以及2025年被暗杀的保守派影响者查理·柯克。唐纳德·特朗普追授柯克总统自由勋章。柯克将美国的基督教特性与特定的公民构成联系起来。他认为，美国正在经历一场“宪法危机”，因为“如果没有基督教人口，你就无法拥有自由”。
