At 11:04 p.m. on May 20, amid the Texas Funeral Service Commission’s probe into a North Texas mosque accused of operating as a funeral home without a license, the head commissioner of Texas’ funeral regulator Kristin Tips sent then-executive director Scott Bingaman a graphic made by the Shirion Collective, a self-described pro-Israel “surveillance network.”

It compared the tenets of Judaism and Christianity to the rules of Islam and Muslim countries, without context: that the Quran states non-Muslims are “subhuman,” and that touching the holy book as a non-Muslim, “can mean death,” according to text messages obtained by KERA News and first reported by the Houston Chronicle.

With it, Tips shared a link to a May 9 video by YouTuber Tal Oran in which he criticized a clip from an unnam

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