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Greg Abbott: “Sharia law would generally be defined as requiring people to…”

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Muslim community reacts as Governor Abbott signs law | NBCDFW

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There's no Sharia compounds, as he would call it. He doesn't even know what Sharia is. The DFW Council on American Islamic Relations also calling out the rhetoric as hurtful and dangerous. Sharia law would generally be defined as requiring people to comply with either the rules of Sharia, the rules of Islam, the rules of a local mosque. What are you guys hearing that people are interpreting Sharia law to be? Sharia is some type of dark, mystic political system that would require everybody to wear burkas and their sons would be terrorists and so forth and so on. (01:33–01:48)

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