Controversy over Muslim real estate developments is buffeting the region from east and west. About the time a statewide uproar over the East Plano Islamic Center project was easing, plans for a subdivision with a name that included the term “Muslim” ignited an uproar in rural Parker County near Weatherford on the other side of Fort Worth.
What happened was that back in April, an item showed up on the agenda for Parker’s Commissioners Court requesting final approval of a plat for the second phase of a roughly 4.5-acre subdivision to be called Muslims United for Progress. Approval of the first phase had gone unnoticed in February.
This time, however, word of the plan was picked up by people concerned about another EPIC-like development. Concern was boosted on social media by the likes of Carlos Turcios, head of the Tarrant County Republican Party community involvement committee. In an X post shared nearly 3,000 times, Turcios shared information about the upcoming approval and declared: “Radical Sharia Law Centers are being constructed EVERYWHERE! Why is this happening in TEXAS?!”…