(Dallas Morning News) Muslim, Jewish and Christian community leaders gathered for a news conference Tuesday morning to condemn the slew of recent investigations into Muslim-centric neighborhood EPIC City. EPIC City, currently the subject of at least five investigations announced by Texas politicians, has ties to the East Plano Islamic Center, a large North Texas mosque.
The news conference was promoted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights advocacy group, and was held at the Wyndham DFW Airport hotel. The event featured CAIR’s D-FW executive director, along with an ordained Lutheran minister and a spokesperson for Jewish Voice for Peace, a Jewish anti-Zionist organization.
At the start of the conference, Mustafaa Carroll, D-FW executive director for CAIR, said the EPIC mosque had been subjected to attacks from Texas politicians.
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