The council meetings of Frisco, a city in Texas, have long become a platform to score social media brownie points by spouting hateful comments against Indians. The latest of them was a January 6 rioter, Edward Jacob Lang, who attended the council meeting on May 19 and called India ‘sh*thole’ without naming India. “The Hindus and the Muslims are teaming up to take over Texas. This is not Muslims versus Hindus here. They are here to eradicate the Christians; they are here to drive us out of our homeland,” Lang said.“You have to understand. These people do not want to assimilate. They have not come here to become Americans. They have come here to drag their third-world culture over to our country. If Jainism and Hinduism are so great, why are there countries sh*tholes? They are bringing this ideology here,” Lang said, calling America a Christian country.Edward Jacob Lang, a conservative activist and Florida US Senate candidate, is a native New Yorker who rioted on Jan. 6 and was pardoned by President Donald Trump. Lang had to be escorted out of the meeting as his allotted time for speaking was over. “If I lived in Texas, I would burn down one of these mosques,” he yelled.The council meeting drew attention as more than 40 people signed up to speak on an agenda item that included the City Council approving plans for a mosque, a Hindu temple, and a Jain temple on land that has been zoned for any place of worship for more than 25 years.Mayor Jeff Cheney said if the projects meet all the planning and zoning requirements, the authorities have to approve them. “In all three cases, the zoning was approved more than 25 years ago,” Cheney said.“What’s before us tonight is not a policy-making agenda item. “It’s a procedural administrative decision based on zoning. The policymaking happened 25 and 30 years ago,” he said.Land for the Jain temple, the Hindu temple and the mosque had been zoned in 1984, 1993 and 2000 respectively.
