Greg Abbott Gives Update on Muslim 'City' Project in Texas (1 Viewer)

[SNOWFLAKE]

Ever hear of gated communities? You know the ones - affluent white Christian folks keepin' their kids safe from the big bad world.

Can't have communities that are Muslim though, oh no!!

Greg Abbott Gives Update on Muslim 'City' Project in Texas​

Greg Abbott gives update on Muslim 'city' project in Texas

There are proposals for a new town containing over 1,000 homes in Collin and Hunt counties.

www.newsweek.com

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said "a dozen state agencies" in the Lone Star State, along with Attorney General Ken Paxton, are investigating plans by the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) to create a new Islamic focused settlement dubbed "EPIC City" in Collin and Hunt counties.

Plans for EPIC City have already proven controversial, with Abbott in February commenting "Sharia law is not allowed in Texas" in response to the project, though the organizers haven't said they plan to impose Sharia (Islamic) law in the settlement.

If constructed EPIC City would be built on a 402-acre site which covers parts of Collin and Hunt counties. Preliminary plans include over 1,000 houses, a mosque, a faith school, a community college and sports facilities split into two sections, EPIC Ranches One and Two.

In a February update East Plano Islamic Center resident scholar Yasir Qadhi said the plan was to create a "Muslim neighborhood" which would be "well integrated" into the wider community.

The proposal was condemned by Abbott on X, with the governor posting: "To be clear, Sharia law is not allowed in Texas. Nor are Sharia cities. Nor are 'no go zones' which this project seems to imply."

Meanwhile:

Leaders with EPIC City say their community will be inclusive and open to anyone, not just Muslims. They also say they will follow local, state, and federal laws. Legal experts tell CBS News Texas that this investigation by the state could face constitutional obstacles with freedom of religion.
"Just the fact that this neighborhood or community would be predominantly Muslim, that is not illegal," civil rights attorney James Roberts said.

EPIC City development in Collin County provokes controversy and investigation

The development is organized by the East Plano Islamic Center.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Loulit01]

Muslims want to do this in Texas?

 

[OrphanSlug]

Mess in the making, the concept of a "Sharia city" in any context right in the heart of White Christian Nationalism Texas. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[CaughtInThe]

Mess in the making, the concept of a "Sharia city" in any context right in the heart of White Christian Nationalism Texas. What could possibly go wrong?

It's almost like the gazillion different types of religions shouldn't fight each other. But they have for almost all of mankind.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

Mess in the making, the concept of a "Sharia city" in any context right in the heart of White Christian Nationalism Texas. What could possibly go wrong?

Who is calling it "sharia city" except the white christian nationalists in texas?

 

[Bok Tuklo]

****ing Hot Wheels.

Asshole.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

It's almost like the gazillion different types of religions shouldn't fight each other. But they have for almost all of mankind.

Yet, here in canuckland, we have mosques, temples, orthodox churches, and synagogues all within a couple of blocks of each other.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

Muslims want to do this in Texas?

I know I know, they should do this in commie paradise California.

 

[Terryj]

If this EPIC city where to be built, they would have the right to establish Sharia law within the community itself but only for those who opted in. To force the acceptance of sharia law to be resident of their city would be illegal under federal law. Now, the question would be, why would a non-Muslim want to live in a city like this?

 

[Luce]

If this EPIC city where to be built, they would have the right to establish Sharia law within the community itself but only for those who opted in.

No they would not. You cannot opt in to a system that executes people or otherwise denies them their rights.

 

[gman]

Yet, here in canuckland, we have mosques, temples, orthodox churches, and synagogues all within a couple of blocks of each other.

We already have that here in the U.S.. your post is ignorant.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

We already have that here in the U.S.. your post is ignorant.

Tsk tsk, feel better now? I always wonder what it really says about someone when they have to lash out and call other people ignorant?

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

If this EPIC city where to be built, they would have the right to establish Sharia law within the community itself but only for those who opted in. To force the acceptance of sharia law to be resident of their city would be illegal under federal law. Now, the question would be, why would a non-Muslim want to live in a city like this?

Who is saying that sharia law will be implemented? Let me guess........................... The Republicans of Texas? Yet, strangely, there are enclaves in the us where a man can have multiple wives...........
I wonder WHAT religion they practice?

 

[gman]

Hasidic and Sephardic Jews quietly buy up properties in towns and neighborhoods in cities and practice passive aggressiveness to others who they consider outsiders (non Jews). Just ask the residents of Lakewood, Deal, and Jackson Twp. New Jersey. The Muslims in Texas mistake is that they announced what their plans were before hand.

 

[gman]

Tsk tsk, feel better now? I always wonder what it really says about someone when they have to lash out and call other people ignorant?

I don’t wonder at all about ignorant people making ignorant statements. Fits you to a Tee.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

I don’t wonder at all about ignorant people making ignorant statements. Fits you to a Tee.

If you are such an insecure person that you need to get into name calling, I can't help you with that.

 

[BirdinHand]

Hasidic and Sephardic Jews quietly buy up properties in towns and neighborhoods in cities and practice passive aggressiveness to others who they consider outsiders (non Jews). Just ask the residents of Lakewood, Deal, and Jackson Twp. New Jersey. The Muslims in Texas mistake is that they announced what their plans were before hand.

Weird.

My brother lived above a Hasidic family in Brooklyn for years.

In a Hasidic neighborhood.

And had nothing but the nicest relationships with them.

Visited numerous times and also personally experienced nothing but friendly neighbors.

People have prejudices against other people who live a different lifestyle and abide different beliefs…and those prejudices often lead to false assumptions

 

[gman]

If you are such an insecure person that you need to get into name calling, I can't help you with that.

that’s a good one coming from a guy who uses name calling to anyone he disagrees with. You’re batting a thousand Snowy.

 

[gman]

Weird.

My brother lived above a Hasidic family in Brooklyn for years.

In a Hasidic neighborhood.

And had nothing but the nicest relationships with them.

Visited numerous times and also personally experienced nothing but friendly neighbors.

People have prejudices against other people who live a different lifestyle and abide different beliefs…and those prejudices often lead to false assumptions

Now that’s an exception. I know you live in Jersey but you don’t sound familiar with the towns I mentioned.

 

[BirdinHand]

Now that’s an exception. I know you live in Jersey but you don’t sound familiar with the towns I mentioned.

I don’t need to live in those towns to know that people outside those communities make assumptions about the Jewish families there because I have first hand experience with Hasidic Jewish community in NY that was wonderful.

I also don’t have qualms with the Amish or Mennonite communities in PA. And have had very pleasant experiences there.

Some people practice more stringent religions. As long as they are not trying to force others to abide their religious beliefs, I have no problems with them.

My problems with religion enter the conversation when individuals attempt to force others to abide their beliefs.

And I see that more often from Faux Christians than any others.

 

[gman]

Just as I have had first hand experiences when I lived in Jersey and still have relatives in Jersey very close to those towns.

 

[PeacefulWarrior]

Yet, here in canuckland, we have mosques, temples, orthodox churches, and synagogues all within a couple of blocks of each other.

So do we.

 

[Juin]

Hasidic and Sephardic Jews quietly buy up properties in towns and neighborhoods in cities and practice passive aggressiveness to others who they consider outsiders (non Jews). Just ask the residents of Lakewood, Deal, and Jackson Twp. New Jersey. The Muslims in Texas mistake is that they announced what their plans were before hand.

Lol. That was a mistake announcing in advance. Leftists generally are hostile to communities like that. Why the exception for Islam?

 

[StillBallin75]

If this EPIC city where to be built, they would have the right to establish Sharia law within the community itself but only for those who opted in. To force the acceptance of sharia law to be resident of their city would be illegal under federal law. Now, the question would be, why would a non-Muslim want to live in a city like this?

They would not have that right and they have stated that's not what they're going to do.

 

[notquiteright]

Yet, here in canuckland, we have mosques, temples, orthodox churches, and synagogues all within a couple of blocks of each other.

You radicalized Canucks....