Cypress-Fairbanks ISD leaders say they are following the law — not politics — as the state’s third-largest district becomes the latest flashpoint in Gov. Greg Abbott’s escalating fight over the Islamic Games and a Muslim civil rights group.
Superintendent Douglas Killian wrote a personal letter to the GOP governor late last week, expressing frustration over his demands for Cy-Fair ISD to cancel the Islamic Games of North America at its facilities and saying he needed to clear up “significant inaccuracies related to this situation.”
According to the letter, which the Chronicle obtained Monday, Killian challenged Abbott’s demand directly, saying that it would be illegal for the district to discriminate against the Islamic Games and that the group “is not identified as a foreign terrorist organization.”…