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Greg Abbott: “We signed a ban on these Islamic radical Sharia city…”

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We also worked on something else, something we've seen creeping up. And we said, you know what, we're drawing a line in the sand because it's time that we addressed it. And that is We signed a ban on these Islamic radical Sharia city developments like Epic City and shut them down. I also declared these very dangerous terrorist organizations like Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations, saying they can no longer exist in the state of Texas. (20:03–20:12)

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