Texas State Land Commissioner Dr. Dawn Buckingham told Newsmax on Wednesday a planned Islamic community outside Dallas is not going to be allowed.

Buckingham told Newsmax’s “National Report,” “We have multiple agencies looking at it, but the real concern is that Sharia law is not acceptable in Texas or anywhere else in America. Our American Constitution laws are the ones that we follow.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says his office has identified the planned community development known as “EPIC City,” as directly connected with the nearby East Plano Islamic Center and that the center is the “only beneficiary of profits” from EPIC City.

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