Top Florida Republicans are decrying the flow of voucher money to Islamic campuses that “promote sharia law,” a stance one prominent Muslim group says is unconstitutional because schools of other faiths benefit from the program without interference.

Republican leaders for years have defended the use of taxpayer-funded vouchers at private, mostly Christian campuses, including those that ban gay students and enforce strict gender-specific dress codes. But this week, they objected to Islamic schools tapping into the program, which funnels more than $3 billion annually to more than 2,000 private campuses across the state, a small proportion of which are Muslim.

“Sharia law seeks to destroy and supplant the pillars of our republican form of government and is incompatible with the Western trad

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