JOSEPHINE, Texas—Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said on Monday that a proposed 402-acre city advertised as the “epicenter of Islam in America” to be built outside a rural Texas town won’t be allowed.
Abbott responded on Feb. 24 to an internet video for the proposed EPIC City and EPIC Ranches near the town of Josephine, Texas, about 40 miles east of Dallas, saying the project wouldn’t be allowed based on an advertisement for the planned development.
The video, which has more than 1 million views on X, prompted concerns from some on social media that sharia, which is law based on Islamic principles, would be used within the 1,000-home development….