Greg Abbott gets it: The Constitution isn’t a shield to protect radical Islamists

Should Texas taxpayers be forced to fund institutions with connections to radical Islamist networks? They will if certain activist groups have their way.

In a letter sent to the Texas attorney general last year, acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock raised concerns that numerous schools applying to take part in Texas’s new school choice program, Texas Education Freedom Accounts, were accredited through an organization with ties to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR has been designated by Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) as a foreign terrorist organization.

Several parents sued the comptroller because their Islamic schools had not yet been approved for the new program, which would give them access to parent-directed taxpayer dollars. Ignoring the ties to CAIR, their argument is that the comptroller was only blocking their admission to the program because they are Muslim schools.

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Texas leaders such as Abbott are right to reject that claim.