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Should Texas fund Muslim education?
American Thinker ^ | 2 Apr, 2026 | Carole Hornsby Haynes

Posted on 04/03/2026 5:17:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber

On the one hand, America enshrines religious freedom and equal treatment for all religions. On the other, supremacist indoctrination is central to Islam. What to do?

A federal district judge has ruled that at least four Islamic schools in Texas are eligible to receive tax payer funding with dozens of others waiting to join, according to media reports. These include the Maryland-based virtual school Bayaan Academy, K–12 college prep school Brighter Horizons Academy in Garland, the Excellence Academy north of Dallas, and the K–12 Houston Quran Academy.

With public alarm growing over the Islamization of Texas due to mass immigration, state officials initially tried to exclude Islamic schools from receiving funding through the new billion-dollar school choice program, the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA). Concerned about links to terrorism and a dubious accreditation agency, officials rejected most of the applications from Islamic schools and reversed those that had been approved.

Under the voucher program, taxpayers fund more than $10,000 for student tuition at state-approved private schools. Eligible homeschool students can receive up to $2,000 for approved expenses. As expected with government programs, funds come with conditions and restrictions.

Many of the schools that have applied are linked to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been designated a terrorist organization by Texas governor Greg Abbott because it is connected to Hamas and the Mother Brotherhood.

Abbott defended his opposition: “We don’t want school choice funds going to radical Islamic indoctrination with historic connections to terrorism.”

The lawsuit employs the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment along with Freedom of Religion of the First Amendment. The plaintiffs claim religious discrimination against Muslim parents and Islamic schools that have been excluded from the approved list of private schools for voucher funding, while hundreds of other religious (mostly Christian) schools are

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TOPICS: Education; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: education; invaders; islam; islamization; texas
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To: MtnClimber

How does this square with insisting the 10 commandments be removed?


41 posted on 04/03/2026 7:27:04 AM PDT by Kudsman (Cheat free elections, too big to rig. )
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To: MtnClimber

If the Muzzies want educated kids, they need to take them back to where they came from and educate them. It’s not the American tazpayers’ job to educate the murderers who want to kill us.


42 posted on 04/03/2026 7:29:35 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Illegally "born in the U.S." doesn't make you an American. It makes you a thieving ANCHOR BABY. )
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To: MtnClimber
I've observed how the greatest weapon in our arsenal has served to impede and often reverse Islamization in Silicon Valley. The weapon is American Popular Culture and, as with our own families, it does a very efficient and thorough job. Pretty much by the third generation we own them.

The problem is they see it, and just like Catholics and other Christian denominations, they want to isolate their offspring from it and this is best done by keeping them in a religious school environment. This is what we need to do to resist. Get involved in local governance and work to make opening their new private schools difficult and expensive, without ever hinting that the opposition is religious based, but rather environmental, quality of life et cetera. The progressives have already done the heavy lifting on stopping growth, use their playbooks.

43 posted on 04/03/2026 7:33:37 AM PDT by atomic_dog
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To: Kudsman

The 10 commandments do not instruct that nonbelievers be slaughtered. They are also the basis of our law. I think that an honest history of islam should be taught in school in World History classes.


44 posted on 04/03/2026 7:48:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!


45 posted on 04/03/2026 7:49:53 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: MtnClimber

This problem was going to come up if schools run by religious entities were funded by government.

Perhaps:

The only written materials to be used by schools funded by Texas law are the materials approved by the legislature.

Each school that receives funding under Texas law must include tolerance instruction in each and every student’s school year as outlined by the State of Texas.

No religious book or any excerpt or quote from it may be used in the course of instruction in a school using funds provided by Texas law except when confined to teaching persons at least 18 years of age or on days when the public schools on the school district of the area of the school are on break and attendance is voluntary and not necessary to receive the education mandated by Texas law.


46 posted on 04/03/2026 7:50:39 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: vikingd00d

TRYING TO MONITOR A MUSLIM SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO NAIL JELLO TO THE WALL


47 posted on 04/03/2026 7:50:47 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: MtnClimber

Perhaps:

The school to be eligible for funding must be diverse and reflect the community it is to serve in terms of gender, race and religious background of its students.

All classes must be of mixed gender, excluding that of American style football.

The voucher amount shall be reduced....


48 posted on 04/03/2026 7:58:44 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

The school to be eligible for funding must be diverse and reflect the public school district in which it is to serve in terms of gender, race and religious background of its students.


49 posted on 04/03/2026 8:04:24 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: FreedomPoster

Reading my reply without comprehension...


50 posted on 04/03/2026 8:21:21 AM PDT by Mr. K (no i think 10%consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Mr. K

I comprehend just fine that you put those in the same class as Islam, and they simply are not.


51 posted on 04/03/2026 8:33:02 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est in )
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To: MtnClimber

Should any level of US govt?

Maybe take that money and send ‘em back.


52 posted on 04/03/2026 8:38:08 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MtnClimber

That would be funding Anti-Americanism and how to destroy Western-Civilization. If muslims follow the koran they cannnot assimilate to our freedoms. Recent news reports say muslims are pushing for their own society at all costs.


53 posted on 04/03/2026 9:31:52 AM PDT by chopperk (,)
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To: MtnClimber

That would be funding Anti-Americanism and how to destroy Western-Civilization. If muslims follow the koran they cannnot assimilate to our freedoms. Recent news reports say muslims are pushing for their own society at all costs.


54 posted on 04/03/2026 9:31:53 AM PDT by chopperk (,)
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To: MtnClimber

Any immigrant, legal or illegal, that refuses to assimilate should receive any public services, not one penny’s worth.


55 posted on 04/03/2026 10:03:20 AM PDT by jpp113
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To: MtnClimber

Teach children the truth ABOUT Islam, how it is a socio-political system masquerading as a religion, and its adherents are commanded to dominate, enslave or kill you if you reject it. And that by killing you and other Infidels, they earn a place in paradise.


56 posted on 04/03/2026 10:17:33 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: MtnClimber

Only the American Stinker would pose such an insulting question...


57 posted on 04/03/2026 10:24:55 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: MtnClimber; lightman; Navy Patriot

.....Should Texas fund Muslim education?.....

Of course not!!!!


58 posted on 04/03/2026 10:31:48 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: SuperLuminal
Only the American Stinker would pose such an insulting question..

You know that they are currently funding muslim private schools...right?

59 posted on 04/03/2026 11:00:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

I can’t believe we are even asking the question, the best answer is Hell NO.
Look at the UK and France, they’re gone.


60 posted on 04/03/2026 11:36:16 AM PDT by Rappini ("In hoc Signo Vinces" In this sign, you shall conquer.)
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