{"id":346928,"date":"2026-06-23T11:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346928\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:42:07","slug":"there-are-more-pressing-issues-than-sharia-law-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346928\/","title":{"rendered":"There are more pressing issues than Sharia law in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to census figures, there are more than 31 million people<\/a> living in Texas. In that population, there are an estimated 313,000 Muslims<\/a>, which is roughly 1% of the total population.<\/p>\n

We have a Republican governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and secretary of state. Both chambers of the Legislature are controlled by the Republican Party. In fact, Republicans have held the majority and controlled the state government for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n

I fail to see why the fear of Sharia law is a concern when the legislative power has remained unchanged and firmly in the hands of the elected Republican officials. There are a significant number of more pressing issues that deserve the attention of our state government in order to continue to improve the lives of all Texans.<\/p>\n

The GOP is whipping up a froth and stoking emotions about Sharia. I suppose these caricatures and political hyperbole are useful as a distraction from the woes of the party and might actually serve to impugn candidates who even resemble a Muslim. But this political rhetoric dramatically overstates the reality, making it somewhat amusing to watch. Since Muslims make up around 1% of the American population, there is little danger of\u00a0Sharia being substituted for U.S. law in American courts, nor is there evidence that anything of the sort is happening or even being contemplated.<\/p>\n

Could this be just plain old Islamophobia meant to deflect attention from the far more serious infringement on the Constitution by inserting someone’s favorite religion into public school curricula, censoring books and interfering with women’s health decisions?<\/p>\n

Sharia law is like the 10 Commandments. Sharia law is a set of rules followed in predominantly Muslim countries. The Ten Commandments are a set of rules followed in predominantly Christian countries. Both have absolutely nothing to do with laws governing Texas or the United States.<\/p>\n

The Republican Party is running on ending Sharia law because they literally have nothing else to run on. The abortion issue is over. Immigration policy is a disaster. Their fiscal policies have caused our debt to exceed <\/a>$39 trillion and their foreign policies have alienated our allies.<\/p>\n

Sharia law, like the 10 commandments, is not enforceable in Texas or the United States. Ask Attorney General Ken Paxton and President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

John Cobarruvias, Houston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to census figures, there are more than 31 million people living in Texas. In that population, there…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-346928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}