Religious Liberty in Texas ... as long as you're practicing the right religion
In Texas, they're champions of Religious Liberty ... as long as that religion is Christianity. But for Muslims, that Religious Liberty becomes "troubling". It's the hypocrisy and double standard we're always talking about.
The Texas AG sued to keep a Bible quote in school. Now hes troubled by Muslim prayers.
Every day at lunch, a handful of teenagers in Frisco, Tex., would pop into room C112, face a whiteboard and kneel for one of their five daily prayers.
It was just a spare classroom, used for everything from teachers grading to Buddhist meditation, school officials say. But Muslims at Liberty High seemed to like it.
Takes like five minutes, instead of having to leave school, get in a car and go to my parents, junior Sarah Qureshi told the school news site early this month.
This is the seventh year weve been doing this, and weve never had one issue, school principal Scott Warstler said.
Last week, however, top state officials learned about the room and suddenly Liberty High had a big issue indeed.