Conservative radio host Chris Krok plans to hand out Bibles outside Wylie East High School after a Muslim outreach group distributed Qurans inside in February.
WYLIE, Texas — A conservative radio host plans to hand out Bibles outside Wylie East High School this week, the latest flashpoint in a school religion debate that started in February and has since reached Capitol Hill.
Chris Krok says he’s responding directly to an incident in which a Muslim outreach group set up a World Hijab Day booth inside the high school, where visitors handed out religious materials, including Qurans.
Krok and others brought their objections to the school board.
Wylie ISD acknowledged the visit violated district policy and that there had been a breakdown in campus procedures — but pushed back on more explosive claims about what occurred.
Some members of the Muslim community said the backlash went too far and that the incident had been badly mischaracterized.
“I think that it’s easy to be misinterpreted as something else, especially in the climate that we and people think that the Muslims are trying to take over and they’re going to bring Sharia law,” said Mustafaa Carroll of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Across North Texas and the country, public debates involving Islam have been growing louder. Last week, the Wylie controversy reached Congress, when a Wylie ISD student testified at a hearing on Capitol Hill.
“If Sharia can be introduced this easily in a small suburban town of Wylie, it can happen anywhere,” Marco Hunter-Lopez told the committee. “I urge this committee and lawmakers across the country to demand full investigations into these organizations.”
Krok says Wylie ISD hasn’t held the right people responsible for what happened in February.
In a message to families, the district said it respects the right to distribute religious materials in public spaces — but that it must stay off school property.