{"id":142688,"date":"2025-11-20T01:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/142688\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:40:09","slug":"us-muslim-group-cair-slams-texas-governors-call-to-probe-imaginary-sharia-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/142688\/","title":{"rendered":"US Muslim group CAIR slams Texas governor’s call to probe ‘imaginary sharia courts’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Texas) has criticised Governor Greg Abbott\u2019s call to investigate alleged “sharia courts,” describing the move as “increasingly desperate and deranged” and rooted in long-standing anti-Muslim conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a>, the group said that attempting to ban “sharia” would be no different from banning Jewish halacha or Catholic canon law, calling Abbott\u2019s demand a “direct assault” on religious freedom.<\/p>\n

“Greg Abbott\u2019s disregard for the First Amendment, his obsession with Texas Muslims and his dedication to protecting the Israeli government from criticism apparently knows no bounds,” CAIR-Texas said.<\/p>\n

The group said the governor\u2019s directive follows several failed efforts to penalise Texans who criticised the Israeli government or refused to sign pro-Israel pledges. <\/p>\n

“Now, the day after issuing an unconstitutional and error-riddled proclamation targeting the state\u2019s largest Muslim civil rights group, he is ordering Texas district attorneys to investigate imaginary ‘sharia courts,'” it said.<\/p>\n

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CAIR-Texas accused Abbott of promoting “debunked conspiracy theories” and vowed to defend Muslims in the state against what it called his “desperate” attempts to undermine the First Amendment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Texas) has criticised Governor Greg Abbott\u2019s call to investigate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-142688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}