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Muslim Americans in Texas seek greater political influence ahead of US midterm elections

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“Muslim Americans in Texas seek greater political influence ahead of US midterm elections”

WASHINGTON: Mosques in Houston are doubling as voter registration centres ahead of the Nov 3 midterms , and local Muslim leaders say they are helping sign up around 1,000 voters a week. The drive in Texas’s metropolis follows the Republican-majority State Board of Education’s approval of a new social studies curriculum that Muslim advocates say portrays Islam unfairly. The contentious high school curriculum, for instance, requires students to learn that “radical Islam” motivated the 9/11…

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