Texas Governor Greg Abbott has recently targeted sharia law in the state, urging law enforcement to investigate alleged sharia tribunals and declaring the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations. He criticized the Islamic Tribunal, a mediation firm, for potentially bypassing state laws, despite it only handling religious aspects of divorces and referring civil matters to Texas courts. The tribunals representative called the governors statements factually and legally incorrect, emphasizing that religious courts have been legally operating in Texas for over two hundred and fifty years.

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