A leader in the Republican Party in Texas, Alexander Duncan, has sparked a huge row in the US with his controversial remarks against the construction of a 90-foot statue of Lord Hanuman, the “Statue of Union”, in Texas.

Duncan wrote on X, “Why are we allowing a false statue of a false Hindu God to be here in Texas? We are a CHRISTIAN nation!”

The politician, who is running for election to the Senate to represent Texas, followed it up with a quotation from the Bible, “You must not have any other God but me. You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. Exodus 20: 3-4.”

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Fierce backlash

Duncan’s posts on X received a fi

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