Two Muslim sisters who filmed a now-viral confrontation at a suburban Houston H-E-B say the backlash has escalated into threats and doxxing, according to the local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR Houston's Imran Ghani says the women in hijabs were shopping in Conroe on Saturday when a customer, identified as Dasha Kilpatrick, told them to "go back to your Islamic country," per Chron.com. "You are not welcome here. This is a Christian country," the woman said, per the Atlanta Black Star, going on to argue "Islam is a terrorist organization" and claiming she was "very educated on this subject."
The sisters' faces weren't visible in the clip, but online sleuths tracked down the account behind the original video, then posted the family's address and school and work information, Ghani says, along with calls for deportation, though the sisters told Kilpatrick they were US citizens. While they report anxiety and harassment, Kilpatrick has seen a flood of support after being fired by a local spa, which said this was not her first incident. A fundraiser run by far-right influencer Tom Hennessey has topped $215,000 with donors praising her for "standing her ground," per Chron. CAIR labels her remarks anti-Muslim hate speech and links the episode to a wider political climate in Texas, where top Republicans have targeted Muslim institutions and designated CAIR a "foreign terrorist organization."
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