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Islamic Academy Acquires Richardson Baptist Church, Plans K‑12 School, Seminary, and Mosque
Texas Scorecard ^ | 27 Jul, 2026 | Hunter Burney

Posted on 07/30/2026 8:16:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The campus is slated to become an Islamic education hub built around an “Islamization of Knowledge” curriculum.

A Muslim organization has purchased a Baptist church in Richardson after engaging in a lawsuit with the previous owners over a signing dispute. The organization announced plans to convert the church campus into a Muslim school, seminary, and mosque, in addition to other uses.

Salahuddin Future Academy (SAFA), the purchaser of the property, is a K-12 educational entity that states part of its mission is to “connect learning to Islamic principles by integrating the rich texts of the Quran and Hadith into every aspect of the Common Core standards” through a curriculum they describe as “Islamization of Knowledge.”

SAFA purchased the property from the Korean World Mission Baptist Church, which states on its website that it has owned the property since 1992. Some of the church’s prayers include that the people would “love Jesus more than anything else” and that the church would “[be a place] where Jesus’ disciples are made,” according to a translation from Korean.

“Our church’s mission is to live a life that brings glory to God by transforming people into God’s children and Jesus’ disciples,” according to a translation from Korean.

According to The Dallas Express, SAFA sued the Baptist church in February. The lawsuit was filed over SAFA’s claims that the church allegedly signed a contract in October of last year to sell the property for $3.8 million.

After SAFA allegedly paid $38,000 in earnest money and expected the transaction to close in May, the Korean Baptist Church stated that the pastor misunderstood what he was signing, thinking it was a listing agreement. This prompted SAFA to file the lawsuit to push the sale forward and seek more than $1 million in damages. The suit was dismissed in April without a ruling on the merits.

In conjunction with SAFA, Authentic Ilm Mission (AIM) has plans to open the Dawah Academy & Seminary on the property. Described as “America’s first national residential Dawah seminary,” the academy offers pathways ranging from an entry-level intensive to a “Bachelor’s Degree in Islamic Studies.”

“We are dedicated to cultivating knowledgeable, principled, and effective leaders who can represent Islam with wisdom, defend the truth with evidence, and carry the prophetic legacy into every sphere of modern life.”

The property will reportedly also house a mosque.

In a video posted to the AIM Facebook account, a speaker for AIM boasted that Korean World Mission Baptist Church “was a church that used to train missionaries to try to give Da’wah (evangelization) to Muslims to leave Islam, but … now we’re going to buy this place.” During this comment, the phrase “Muslim haters!!” was flashed on the screen.

The purchase of the former Baptist church property comes as concerns continue to rise over Islam’s influence in Texas.

At a recent mosque open house in Plano, a speaker announced that “Sharia is already here.” Another man, who claimed to have “lived under full force of Sharia law (in Iran)”, warned of “apostasy laws, where they’re being killed for leaving their religion in my country, Iran.”

While Islam makes up just 2 percent of the population of Texas, the state holds what some estimates claim is the fifth-largest population of Muslims in the nation and Islam is widely cited as the fastest-growing religion in the world.


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: islam; jihad

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To: MtnClimber

No it is not compatible, I agree with you. Looks like we will have school trained terrorists in our once great country.


21 posted on 07/30/2026 9:03:25 AM PDT by Ronald77 ( )
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To: dfwgator

Where is all the money coming from for this “religion” to be able to purchase, build , furnish, pay for utilities and other normal expenses??? It seems that out of the blue this 2% of the U.S. population has almost unlimited resources to expand like mold in a wall


22 posted on 07/30/2026 9:03:35 AM PDT by shadeaud (God gave us the free will and intelligence to choose right from wrong. Use it or lose it!D)
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To: MtnClimber

The colonization of TX and the USA.


23 posted on 07/30/2026 9:19:37 AM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact.)
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To: MtnClimber

I hope the have the speakers for call to prayer pointed towards the neighboring subdivision.


24 posted on 07/30/2026 9:20:39 AM PDT by DownInFlames (p)
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To: SuperLuminal

I was thinking the same.


25 posted on 07/30/2026 9:21:16 AM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact.)
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To: MtnClimber
We are dedicated to cultivating knowledgeable, principled, and effective leaders who can represent Islam with wisdom, defend the truth with evidence, and carry the prophetic legacy into every sphere of modern life.”

TRANSLATION: Kill the Great Satan infidels

26 posted on 07/30/2026 9:30:39 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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To: MtnClimber

Not compatible with the human race.


27 posted on 07/30/2026 9:51:16 AM PDT by cp124 (Bring back the Constitution.)
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To: Salman

The deep question is where did the money come from to purchase the property


28 posted on 07/30/2026 10:22:11 AM PDT by ckilmer (`61)
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To: Round Earther

Good question. I remember the church I grew up went out of business, they sold to the highest bidder, which was a Oneness Pentecostal institution that has defiled it and made it a house of R. Kelly prostitution (when De Blasio came to town, he visited it). They deny the Trinity.


29 posted on 07/30/2026 10:49:09 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: Leaning Right
"A. It’s because that fool George W. Bush told us “Islam is peace”, when it most certainly is not."

George Bush isn't the reason that the globalist left is embracing Islam as a way of undermining Western Civilization, and very few on the right share Bush's opinion about Islam. You give him way too much credit.
30 posted on 07/30/2026 11:04:22 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle1
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To: MtnClimber

Is TX is wanting to be destroyed? why are they allowing so much change lately?


31 posted on 07/30/2026 11:08:29 AM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: MtnClimber

God help us...


32 posted on 07/30/2026 11:10:18 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: MtnClimber

We need a fed law that Mosques are illegal in the US because Islamic law supersedes civil law. It’s what you expect a death cult to practice.


33 posted on 07/30/2026 11:21:24 AM PDT by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: MtnClimber

Jihad continues apace. The MoFos have unlimited resources; money and soldiers. They know how to prepare the battlespace by “handsome means”.


34 posted on 07/30/2026 2:03:22 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization? )
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To: MtnClimber; All

https://securitypolicylaw.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/MyersJoseph.Quranic-Concept-of-War.pdf


35 posted on 07/30/2026 2:11:02 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization? )
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To: MtnClimber

Our government is letting these people in here by the hundreds of thousands.


36 posted on 07/30/2026 2:27:53 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: MtnClimber

The campus is a garrison for soldiers of Islam.


37 posted on 07/30/2026 3:14:31 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization? )
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