Members of the Tarrant County Republican Party are preparing to host an anti-Muslim speaker just weeks before the local party's leaders vote on the removal of a Muslim vice chairman from his post.

According to emails about the event sent by a precinct chairman and obtained by the Texas Observer, members "need to know the truth" before Jan. 10, the day the party's executive committee will vote on ousting Shahid Shafi.

John Guandolo (Understanding the Threat)

John Guandolo, a former FBI agent and founder of the Dallas-based group Understanding the Threat, trains police and other officials on dealing with the perceived threat of Muslims in the United States.

Guandolo has made statements equating all Muslims with terrorists and tweeted a picture of an unidentified Southwest Airlines employee earlier this year, calling the man a jihadi. His Twitter account was suspended in October after he claimed that Democrats were to blame for an attack that left 11 people dead at a Pittsburgh synagogue.

The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies Understanding the Threat as a hate group.

In October, a post on the group's Facebook page referred to Lisa Grimaldi Abdulkareem — a Tarrant County GOP precinct chair who may be ousted in January and whose husband is Muslim — as a "jihadi-defending muslim working inside the Republic party."

Guandolo is set to speak to Tarrant County GOP officials on Dec. 29. Precinct chairman Dale Attebery claimed in an email that about 100 people may attend, including precinct chairs, police, and local party chairman Darl Easton, the Observer and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

In an email published by the Observer, Attebery says Republicans are "losing Tarrant County" like Dearborn, Mich., where Arab Americans are the largest ethnic group. He also says Europe is "falling to Islam."

Although some of Guandolo's past training sessions have counted as education credits for Texas law enforcement, the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement rescinded credits for a class that took place in May for painting "an entire religion with an overly broad brush," the Texas Tribune reported.

The upcoming six-hour session is titled "School: Islam and Sharia vs. the U.S. Constitution"; the emails say its location is being kept secret for now for security reasons.

The DFW chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations released a statement Monday calling for the event featuring a "disgraced ex-FBI agent and anti-Muslim extremist" to be canceled.

Guandolo and his group have targeted CAIR in the past, claiming the Islamic advocacy group has terrorist ties. The U.S. does not consider CAIR a terrorist organization.