School board meetings usually happen without much incident, but the most recent one in the Wylie Independent School District (ISD) in Texas got a bit heated. During the meeting, most speakers usually have a limited time to voice out their agendas, but outrage erupted after the Wylie ISD gave a bit more time to a Muslim woman wearing a hijab who discussed the appearance of a group called Why Islam in Texas schools.
The meeting, which was held in Collin County, Texas, on February 17, was also intended to cover the outrage about Why Islam, which visited and held activities at the Wylie schools two weeks ago. Parents also apparently disapproved of the group’s distribution of Islamic teaching materials to students, and many of them spoke out about their displeasure at the aforementioned board meeting.
It’s not clear what exactly the disapproving Christian parents spoke about, as they didn’t seem to be the highlight of the meeting. Instead, and as you can see in the video, the Muslim woman went “over time” with her speech, prompting dismissive jeers from other members of the meeting, with some even yelling, “Come on!… Time’s up!” and something along the lines of, “[unintelligible] the death of all Christians, it’s disgusting to me!”
In the end, the Muslim woman was called away since her talking time was up. Even so, some members of the meeting were not satisfied with what transpired. One of them even took to X to criticize Wylie ISD itself, ranting, “WYLIE ISD School Board ALLOWED a muslim woman to go OVER TIME, but shut down every American who had only 2 minutes to speak.”
Christians in the School Were Not Having It
Part of what caused the friction leading up to the board meeting was that the Why Islam group, which distributed Islamic teaching and recruitment materials in the school were apparently not verified by the front desk and simply allowed them in. Moreover, a student who’s a member of a Christian organization noted that, “he is a part of a Christian organization, and he knows that they’re not allowed to do that,” regarding the distribution of religious material.
Hence, sentiments from people online and parents of students in Wylie ISD schools started complaining to the authorities and even accusing Islamic groups of imposing their religion. However, some were quick to defend the Islamic groups, “Muslims can be Americans too lmaooo,” argues a commenter on X.
Meanwhile, Mustafaa Carroll, executive director of the Texas Council on American-Islamic Relations, has clarified that parents have nothing to worry about, “I think that it’s easy to be misinterpreted as something else, especially in the climate that we’re in, people think that the Muslims are trying to take over and they’re going to bring Sharia law,” transcript courtesy of WFAA.
