Peter McIlvenna
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And Texas now has around 350 mosques.
California has 400 at the moment.
Texas is due to actually be the state with more mosques than any other U.S.
state within three years.
Where I was, Stephen Irving, I could have driven two miles and gone to both of the Sharia courts that are there operating, of course, voluntarily.
But it's not voluntarily for the women who are in those communities because that's the only law they know.
So we have that happening in the halal food industry.
And the halal food industry is growing 20% year on year in Dallas.
And I've read reports of a huge focus of these groups on Dallas to really push the Islamic agenda there.
And that's why...
Dallas has, I think, 210 mosques in the Dallas-Houston corridor, and then about 100 over in Austin.
And I think it was Amy Mech posted a comment on one of the clips of my time with you on Saturday, Steve.
And she said, look, this is not just urban areas.
This is also in the country.
And that is true.
It's not.
But I wanted to focus on the urban areas because the growth is frightening.
but it is also happening outside the urban areas.
Well, if you look at the global halal food industry, it's valued, I think, 4 trillion at the moment.
And in the UK, we have a slice of 90 billion.