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Texas lawmaker demands Muslim visitors take loyalty oath
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jan 31, 2015 06:10pm |
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| Author | Adam B. Lerner |
| News Date | Friday, January 30, 2015 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A Texas state lawmaker drew criticism Thursday for demanding that Muslims visiting her office during a day of outreach in Austin take a loyalty oath and denounce Islamic terrorism.
As local students and others went to the statehouse for Muslim State Capitol day, state Rep. Molly White, a Republican from Belton, offered her warning to would-be visitors on Facebook. While she did not plan to be in her office on Thursday, “I did leave an Israeli flag on the reception desk in my office with instructions to ask representatives from the Muslim community to renounce Islamic terrorist groups and publicly announce allegiance to America and our laws,” she wrote.
“We will see how long they stay in my office,” she added.
The Council of American-Islamic Relations, whose Texas chapter organized the day as a way to introduce young people to state government, wrote Thursday to House Speaker Joe Straus to protest the move and ask for an ethics investigation. |
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