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DOJ Launches Investigation Into Proposed Islamic “Sharia Law City” In Texas

The Department of Justice has launched an official civil rights investigation into a proposed Islamic mega-city near Dallas, TX.

The East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) wants to build a new city with 1,000 homes on Texas soil. It would have a huge mosque at the center, with Muslim schools, a community college, shops, and sports fields.

All residents would have to comply with Islamic Sharia law.

Here are the details:

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Amy Mekelburg, founder of the RAIR foundation, announced:

Sen. John Cornyn also said:

Texas AG Ken Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott were already investigating the planned Sharia law city.

But now, the investigation has escalated to a federal level.

The New York Times reported:

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into a planned housing development outside of Dallas that would have a mosque at its center, Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, said on Friday.

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Mr. Cornyn, who will face Texas’s hard-right attorney general, Ken Paxton, next year in what could be a heated Republican primary contest for his own Senate seat, is the latest Texas Republican to challenge the development in the rural town of Josephine, Texas.

The project is backed by members of the East Plano Islamic Center, a mosque in Plano, about 20 miles from Josephine, and has drawn intense scrutiny from Republicans, including Gov. Greg Abbott, who have accused the planners of seeking to create an exclusively Muslim community and to impose Islamic law on residents.

In recent months, Mr. Abbott has directed several state agencies to investigate the development, known as EPIC City, suggesting it may have violated fair housing and financial laws, and that the Islamic center had conducted illegal funerals in its mosque.

Mr. Paxton has also initiated a criminal investigation.

Now Mr. Cornyn has requested a federal investigation. Mr. Cornyn wants the Justice Department to investigate whether the Muslim developers engaged in religious discrimination. A spokesman for the Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Dallas Morning News has more details on the very problematic plans for the Islamist city:

The planned mixed-use development is tied to the East Plano Islamic Center, one of North Texas’ largest mosques. Members of the mosque formed Community Capital Partners, the for-profit entity behind the development.

Dan Cogdell, attorney for the mosque and Community Capital Partners, said the groups will comply with the investigation.

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“EPIC will cooperate fully with any and all investigations — regardless of how misguided and unnecessary they are,” he said.

Community Capital Partners has said it hopes to build more than 1,000 homes, a K-12 faith-based school, a mosque, elderly and assisted living, apartments, clinics, retail shops, a community college and sports fields on 402 acres near Josephine, about 30 miles northeast of downtown Dallas.

The new EPIC Ranches One and Two developments were announced earlier this year. The developments will cover 200 acres near EPIC City.

A member at the East Plano Islamic Center is overseeing the EPIC Ranches project, Community Capital Partners representatives previously told The Dallas Morning News.

Construction has not begun on the developments.

In his April letter, Cornyn alleged that Community Capital Partners may be violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968 after the group initially advertised that it would “limit sales to only persons we believe will contribute to the overall makeup of our community and are legally eligible to invest and buy property in the United States,” according to previous language on the group’s website for EPIC City.

Cornyn also said it may be appropriate for federal investigators to determine if developers are following state and federal “prohibitions on the enforcement of sharia law.”

Sharia is the moral code for followers of Islam, but the interpretation and administration varies based on different sects, communities, countries and individuals, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization.

Last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott noted that Sharia law is outlawed in Texas due to a law he enacted:

Sharia law has no place in America. Period. Full stop.

If Muslims want to live in a city centered around their backwards laws and customs, then I’ve got good news for them…

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There are entire countries based around Islam…in the Middle East!

Maybe they should move back there, rather than trying to spread Sharia law to America! It’s not happening!


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