Fort Worth school board meeting interrupted by protester yelling about Sharia law

The Fort Worth Independent School District’s board meeting Monday was broken up by a protester yelling about Sharia law.

The protester stormed into the board meeting yelling “We need to stop Sharia law in Texas!” He was escorted out of the board meeting by security officers.

The meeting occurred shortly after a Fort Worth school district principal was reassigned after old posts of hers surfaced on social media. Shayma Alzubi was named the principal of Western Hills High School in May, but days later the school district reassigned her after online backlash over her old social media posts. Alzubi had posted about the Black Lives Matter movement and Sharia law. Sharia is “the set of Islamic laws that encompass both the religious and secular practices of Muslims,” according to the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research…

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