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Texas Republicans are increasingly focusing on the Muslim faith, even proposing to regulate Islamic practices in the Legislature. Dallas-based New York Times reporter Ruth Graham joined NTX Now to talk about their look into the rise of Islamophobia in Texas.
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Civil rights advocates have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Texas law requiring the state's public schools to display the Ten Commandments. Monday's petition tees up a case that could set a new national standard for the limits of religious expression in classrooms. Posters with the Ten Commandments began going up almost a year ago in classrooms across Texas, a state that educates about 5.5 million students. An appeals court earlier this year cleared the way for the Texas law and one in Louisiana, and similar laws have been passed in Arkansas and Alabama.
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