I meant to comment on this little (non-)development earlier, but I forgot:
Becky Noble brought you the story in April about a proposed massive 400-plus acre development called “EPIC City” in East Plano, Texas, which some critics contend would be an exclusive Muslim-only community and would be governed by Sharia Law. (The backers deny these claims, but their promotional materials leave many questions about their true intent.)
EPIC stands for East Plano Islamic Center.
Lone Star state Gov. Greg Abbott said it’s not happening, at least not for the time being:
Texas has halted any construction of EPIC City.
There is no construction taking place.
The state of Texas has launched about a half dozen investigations into this project. That includes criminal investigations.
And, the US Department of justice is also investigating.
This matter, and similar matters, are taken very seriously, and actions are being taken to address all concerns.
Fuck me, even our crappy Senator John Cornyn is alarmed:
A master-planned “community of thousands of Muslims” could violate the constitutional rights of Jewish and Christian Texans, by preventing them from living in this new community and discriminating against them within the community. I further encourage the Department to investigate whether Christians, Jews, and other non-Muslim minorities would receive equal protection under the law in this new community. Religious discrimination, whether explicit or implicit, is unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Religious freedom is a cornerstone of our nation’s values, and I am concerned this community potentially undermines this vital protection.
Everyone seems to be pussyfooting around this issue, using Constitutional concerns — which is fine and dandy — but it avoids the main issue, which is this:
Every time, every single time anywhere in the world that Muslims become a significant minority, bad things follow.
It has happened (and continues to happen) all over Africa, and the same is true in every Western nation where the local governments have allowed these fanatical bastards to set up shop. Mosques, “cultural” centers (like their pathetic medieval culture is worth promoting) and attempts to incorporate shari’a law into national law are all, simply put, a cancer on free societies.
Allowing these Muslims to create a Muslim-only enclave in Texas will do no good at all for the state of Texas. In fact, let me be even more blunt: if these assholes want to live in an area where Islam is predominant, they should feel free to do so in places like Pakistan, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran; not in the U.S., and definitely not in Texas.
And by the way: I think it’s time we looked at the First Amendment and inserted a little asterisk that says “Except for Islam”, because their malignant little death cult has no place in our free society.
Enough is enough.