One year ago, I wrote about how Texas Gov. Greg Abbott amplified a racist, Islamophobic tweet to further a conspiracy theory about a North Texas Muslim community. The conspiracy was that the planned community, EPIC City, was going to enact…
Oklahoma joins anti-Muslim zoning trend
Anti-Muslim sentiments have crossed the Red River, with Oklahoma now joining Texas in public fights against Muslim building projects. City Council members in Broken Arrow, a suburb of Tulsa, voted Jan. 12 to deny a rezoning request tied to a…
Texas governor seeks to ban Muslim organizations
The Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations are “foreign terrorist organizations” and are banned from owning property in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott declared in a Nov. 18 proclamation. “The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals…