Well, I feel safer. Do you feel safer? We should all feel safer given the latest valiant effort by state Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, to keep us all safe from the phantom menace of Sharia law and its impending attack on the Texas court system. Rep. Berman took to the Texas House floor Wednesday afternoon […]
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David Barton Peddles More Hysterics
Did David Barton promote another Sharia hysteria falsehood on his radio show earlier this week? It appears so. […]
Anti-Sharia Law Measure Back from the Dead
I’ll say this for Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler — the man is persistent. Like a weed is persistent. His one-man crusade to pass a law “protecting” Texas from Sharia law — a threat that apparently exists only in his mind, and possibly on talk radio — has officially become a zombie tale. This is the […]
Anti-Sharia Proposal Quietly Advances
After languishing in the House Calendars committee for several weeks — and looking as if the clock might run out on this ill-considered bill — Rep. Leo Berman’s anti-Sharia law measure (HB 911) made a surprise appearance on the House floor on Monday. […]
What Anti-Sharia Hysteria Can Do
Is the hateful rhetoric surrounding the anti-Sharia hysteria we’ve been reporting about filtering down into our public schools? A Houston television station reports that a local high school teacher has been put on administrative leave after he allegedly told a Muslim student “I bet you’re grieving” because of the death of Osama bin Laden. The […]