Plan for expanded Muslim community triggers hope, fear in Texas

AFP - Dawn - 20/04
Texas is one of more than a dozen states that have enacted “anti-Sharia law” bills.

PLANO: Threats to Muslims living in Texas are nothing new, but lately the vile phone calls to Imran Chaudhary have ramped up. The cause? Chaudhary’s early plans for construction of 1,000 new homes, a community centre, school, hospital and — controversially — a mosque and Islamic private school to serve the growing Muslim community near East Plano, in a thinly populated corner of east Te...
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