Dear Governor Abbott,

I want to thank you for your leadership and determination to make sure that Sharia law does not usurp, override or nullify the rights afforded to all citizens by the United States Constitution.

Islamists in America have made it clear for decades that they want Sharia law to govern the people instead of the United States Constitution.

Dr. Yasir Qadhi, the top official listed at epicmasjid.org/epics-team, has publicly declared that:

•    Democracy is illegitimate: “No Supreme Court, no system of government, no democracy where they vote… What gives you the right to prohibit something or allow something?”
•    Any legal system outside Sharia is disbelief: “To believe that it is permissible to follow a system of laws other than the Sharia negates one’s testimony of Islam.”
•    Rejecting full Sharia is rejecting Allah: “To compartmentalize Islam… shows that you really don’t believe in Islam, you don’t believe in Allah.”
•    Apostates: He declares that believing in any law other than Sharia negates one’s Islam, effectively labeling Muslims who accept democracy as apostates.
•    He has previously asserted that a true Muslim cannot be neutral about Islam—he must either accept it or reject it and become an enemy.

Based upon the above proclamations and statements it is fairly clear that EPIC leaders are very likely to enforce Sharia law in the new Muslim township that EPIC is organizing.  To think otherwise would require one to totally ignore the dangerous proclamations and statements that Dr. Qadhi has made regarding Muslim dominion, Muslim rule, Sharia enforcement and disregard for American values and the rights afforded all Americans by the United States Constitution.  Additionally, it would require ignoring the fact that Sharia law is Islam and Islam is Sharia law.  They are one and the same.  Muslims operate under the dictate of Sharia law.

Many of the tenets of Sharia law are antithetical to the rights afforded under the United States Constitution.  Sharia law deprives women, apostate Muslims and infidels of many of the legal protections that are otherwise afforded them under the United States Constitution.  Additionally, Sharia law calls for cruel and unjust punishments, fatwas, honor killings, genital mutilations, discrimination, religious persecution and a host of other unconstitutional tenets.

If a Muslim township enforces tenets of Sharia law that conflict with the United States Constitution it violates America’s highest law.

Federal, state, county, city and school board officials take an oath to uphold the United States Constitution.  Advancing or allowing Islamist Sharia law is inconsistent with that oath.

I urge you to stand strong in this effort.  Our freedom depends on it.