09:01 PM CDT on Tuesday, June 14, 2005
By LINDA STEWART BALL / The Dallas Morning News
PLANO – The Ismaili Muslim community announced Tuesday that it is building a $6.5 million worship and community center in Plano, where it has found a warm welcome.
Gov. Rick Perry flew in to lay the first ceremonial brick for the center’s foundation. It was a symbolic gesture since the site for the new center will be a few miles northeast of the Gleneagles Country Club in Plano, where the foundation ceremony was held.
The governor, who is friends with the Ismaili Muslims’ spiritual leader, His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan, said he was honored to participate.
Or that the CAIR angle was a local chapter from Houston that was basically teasing Perry for finding the most weaksauce Muslims to make nice with. (It's just too bad he couldn't find some better Muslims to hang out with, like GW with the Saudi Royals or Barack with the Muslim Brotherhood.)
But no, you're right. Perry's probably handing out suicide vests to Texan 4th graders as we speak. That sounds pretty reasonable an assumption.