Dear Mayor Muns and City Council members,

I was shocked to learn that a video captured Mayor Muns inside the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), meeting with mosque leadership—including Yasir Qadhi, a cleric with a long-documented record of radical Islamic views.   During the meeting, Qadhi pressed for assurances that Islamic moral values and traditional family teachings would be protected in public education. In response, you pledged to arrange a private dialogue between EPIC’s leadership and multiple school board officials—a courtesy seemingly not extended to Christian churches, Hindu temples, or any other concerned faith-based groups across Texas who have similarly objected to radical sexual curricula in public schools.

Yasir Qadhi said this about other Americans “Jews and Christians are filthy, their lives and their property can be taken in Jihad by the Muslims.”

Qadhi has publicly declared that:

•    Democracy is illegitimate: “No Supreme Court, no system of government, no democracy where they vote…
•    What gives you the right to prohibit something or allow something?”
•    Any legal system outside Sharia is disbelief: “To believe that it is permissible to follow a system of laws other than the Sharia negates one’s testimony of Islam.”
•    Rejecting full Sharia is rejecting Allah: “To compartmentalize Islam… shows that you really don’t believe in Islam, you don’t believe in Allah.”
•    Apostates: He declares that believing in any law other than Sharia negates one’s Islam, effectively labeling Muslims who accept democracy as apostates.
•    He has previously asserted that a true Muslim cannot be neutral about Islam—he must either accept it or reject it and become an enemy.

The Islamic Values that Yasir Qadhi refers to are more specifically called Sharia law.  Islam is Sharia law and Sharia law is Islam.  They are one and the same.  Many of the tenets of Sharia law are antithetical to the rights afforded under the United States Constitution.

Giving special access to and empowering Islamists to elevate Sharia law above the United States Constitution is reckless and puts the values of all Americans at risk.

The mayor, council members and school board members took an oath to uphold the United States Constitution.  Advancing Islamist Sharia law is inconsistent with this oath.

I urge you to retract your school board assistance from the East Plano Islamic Center.