600,000 thousand?? as in 600,000,000 which is 600 Million - Muslims in Texas? I don't think so.
There are a reported 2.2 Billion Muslims in the world, and Texas has fewer than 25% of them. You can tell, Texas is prosperous, has hard working folk, with a sense of dignity, intelligence, honor and no overwhelming urge to destroy civilization.
Further, any Governor who would address a Cleric as "Your Highness" has as much business being a Govenor, as a President who bows and grovels to foreign dictators.
I have mixed emotions about this. The courts allow arbitration on a multitude of civil proceedings based on relegious canons or halakha or shariah, etc...
but something doesn’t seem right about letting Muslims getting a foot in the door of our legal system, when they have avowed that they want shariah to be the supreme law of the US., where halakha and canons do not espouse that.
The U.S. Constitution is not a suicide pact.
I think you mean approx. 2.5%.
The US Census Bureau, while not allowed to ask about religion, does collect data from self-described and it estimates that, as of 2010, Texas has a Muslim population of 581. and estimates the U.S. has a Muslim poulation of approx. 7 million.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0075.pdf
As for your last “further” ? I agree...in spades.
What is your evidence that the number is that high?
If you CANT PROVE the number is that high, what should be our response to a religion that openly says it is supposed to be 100% of them that believe that?
I’ll ask you again: If the religion believes that 100% of the people of that religion should kill Jews and conquor the world, what should be our response?