The Texas Sharia Panic: How a Rallying Cry Became a Curriculum

Republican leaders across Texas are repeatedly warning that Sharia is an urgent threat to the state- making it a rallying cry as we head into the midterm elections. The Muslim community, who has long stayed quiet, is now organizing and speaking out.  Today: how the drumbeat of Islamophobic language became school curriculum, and how the small population of Muslim Texans begins to use American strategies- to work for their place in Texas. To understand what is happening in Texas we are joined by RNS journalists Fiona André and Ulaa Kuziez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices