Posted on 09/27/2026 8:00:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The organization hosting the event has plans for a 40,000-square-foot Islamic facility near Plano, Texas.
Shaykh Uthman ibn Farooq laid out a vision for an Islamic America during a livestreamed event at the Sufaraa Center in McKinney, Texas, last week. Authentic Ilm Mission, which hosted the event, has plans for a 40,000-square-foot facility near Plano, Texas, and used the livestream featuring Farooq to fundraise for the multipurpose school and Islamic community center.
“We love this country,” Farooq said. “We want good for this country. And that’s why we want Islam for this country, ’cause we think that’s the best thing. And we’re not going to be ashamed of that.”
He went on to argue that Muslims are fully within their constitutional rights to adhere to Sharia law. “We’re Muslims. That’s our identity, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The Constitution of this country protects that. That’s our right to believe in the Sharia. Yes, I said it. That’s our right.”
“There’s communists that believe in communism and live in America,” Farooq continued. “The current mayor of New York is a socialist. Bernie Sanders is open socialist. … Our president — I don’t know what the, what he is actually. I don’t think he knows what he is. … But he has that right according to the Constitution. … There are Satanists. There’s a church of Satan. I’ve debated them.”
Farooq works with the One Message Foundation and is a viral social media influencer. His Instagram and YouTube pages boast 430,000 and 1.4 million followers, respectively. The One Message Foundation’s homepage says it, together with other groups, converted nearly 1,500 individuals to Islam during the World Cup. Farooq’s social media videos feature his commentary speaking of polygamy as legitimate and speculating that President Donald Trump may be an evil spirit.
The event host, Authentic Ilm Mission (AIM), which is led by Dr. Karim AbuZaid and Farooq, is fundraising for an expansive Islamic facility “in one of the most densely Muslim-populated areas between Richardson and Plano,” according to the group’s website. On the former site of a Christian church, the four-acre campus and its facilities — 40,000 square feet in total — will be used to host “Islamic K-12 education,” a seminary, and training in Da’wah, that is, Islamic proselytization.
The AIM website describes the project as having raised $300,000 of the $800,000 needed, with donations reportedly coming from 1,500 individuals in 50 countries. The site features a video of a mosque displacing a beautiful church building with a steeple and classical brick architecture. A different graphic on the website allows users to swipe across the screen to replace an image of the church building at the address listed with an image of the new mosque. The number of mosques in America has surpassed 3,000 in recent years.
During the livestreamed event, Farooq said that the classes offered at the “Da’wah center” would help “educate our youth to have that knowledge … [and] refute Christian apologists and Islamophobes and hadith-rejectors and anybody else that’s trying to deviate Islam.”
He also warned against compromising Islamic principles, framing the warning in terms of Muslims’ military conquests in Europe. Muslims being driven out of parts of Europe in and around the 1500s demonstrate the consequences of compromise, Farooq said: “Portugal and Spain, Sicily — these areas were under Muslim rule for around 700 years. … When the Muslims went there, one of the leaders of the Muslims … went with sword in hand, iman in heart … The Quran was on their tongues. It was in their hearts. It was in their actions. And Allah made them victorious. Victory after victory until, to the middle of Europe, they were victorious. Seven hundred years of compromise, of trying to accommodate ended with what? the Muslims losing.”
Farooq is no stranger to controversy. Yvette Cooper, who was serving as home secretary at the time, barred Farooq from visiting the United Kingdom due to comments justifying Muslims having sex with female captives, a position endorsed by Muhammad in the Quran. Farooq visited Europe in April 2025. When speaking at a Birmingham mosque, he said, “The future is ours. Every ideal nightmare of a Muslim Europe will come true.”
Texas has one of the highest Muslim populations in the United States at more than 300,000, and a significant portion resides in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The intended site for the Authentic Ilm Mission facility is situated about 20 minutes southwest of the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) mosque, which boasts 10,000 members and is embroiled in controversy that garnered nationwide attention with its efforts to establish a Muslim city. The legal battle over EPIC’s planned complex of more than 450 housing plots is ongoing.
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The muslims are allied with the marxists which must be their strategy for the quickest way to destroy our republic.
They will win eventually because they live and plan much further out.
We are nurturing a viper in our bosom.
After seeing countries that have become Muslim, we DON’T want Muslim for this country.
Go to one of those countries if you don’t like it here.
Wonder how many brain-dead libtards in TX are cheering this on and feeling so good about themselves in the process, because DIVERSITY!
The Indians have already claimed it.
It’s not a religion. It’s not a cult. It’s a political system of conquest.
How about this:
“We want Catholicism in this country” — well, we have that.
“We want Judaism in this country” — well, we have that.
“We want multiple denominations of Protestantism in this country” — well, we have that.
“We want Islam in this country” — well, we have that.
“NO YOU DON’T” Sharia law is the highest law. The Constitution needs to be thrown away entirely. We must destroy all churches and temples. Outlaw other religions. Remove women’s rights. Slaughter the homosexuals. Tax all non-Muslims. Everyone in the country must submit to Islam or die.
No.
Translation: “We want this country...and then the world”
Israel tried to tell America.
Key members of FR refuse to listen.
The only upside would be that they would rid us of democrats in the process.
SECOND AMENDMENT
You can't call it a religion according to our definition if it teaches people to ambush and slit throats of innocent people, have multiple wives, sexually mutilate females, abuse children sexually, lie as a matter of strategy and as a sacrament, kill people who no longer want to belong, and force conversion under threat of death.
THAT is not a religion.
Exile anyone who advocates any of these things as a part of the major conspiracy.
Rats, being basically satanists, would go along with them. IN fact we are watching that happen before our eyes right now.
Why debate?
You serve the same god, what's to debate?
Maybe, how he is best served?
It is a no brainer. Islam wins because they pretend to serve the true god.
Muslims are illiterate uneducated illegals who come here on welfare. They expect to use our free handouts to live. Americans are being taken advantage by muslims for free living, education, medication and food because they have one goal; fly the flag of islam over the White House at our expense. Deport them all. Trump had them blocked but the dems on Bidens first day in office cancelled Trumps EO to keep them out of the USA. If nothing is done it will become bloody because the koran forbids them to assimilate and they will not assimilate.
Well, yes. Does anyone have to be told that? That is the Islamic blueprint. And that is one religion that historically expands by conquest and violent enforcement, not persuasion.
> They [Islam] will win eventually because they live and plan much further out. <
It’s like a football game where only one side is permitted to advance the ball.
George W. Bush had a once-in-a-millennium chance to change that, and crush radical Islam. Instead he told us “Islam is peace” while the Twin Towers rubble was still smoldering.
Oh, how I despise that man.
Whether Islam is a “peaceful religion” is a complex question with widely differing perspectives among scholars, theologians, and the public, as its sacred texts and history contain both passages promoting peace and accounts of warfare.
Islamic organizations and scholars state that the core message of Islam centers on mercy, justice, and inner peace. They note that the word Islam shares a root with salam, meaning peace, and that the Quran describes the Prophet Muhammad as a mercy to humanity.
Proponents explain that the Quran permits fighting only as a last resort to defend against oppression or attack, governed by strict rules that protect non-combatants.
The Majority of believers, commentators and analysts emphasize that the vast majority of the world’s over one billion Muslims practice their faith through daily prayer, charity, and peaceful community life, viewing violent extremism as a distortion of their religion by a minority.
You can read more about this viewpoint from the American Islamic Outreach.
Critics and certain historians argue that foundational Islamic texts and early history include explicit instructions and military campaigns used to expand territory and deal with adversaries. They contend these elements show that the religion is not inherently pacifist.
The Concept of Jihad: Some theologians and researchers highlight a tension in classical Islamic thought between peaceful outreach (dwah) and militant or defensive struggle (jihad). They argue that political and religious authorities have historically used these concepts to justify armed conflict.
Observers note that describing Islam specifically as a “religion of peace” became much more prominent in Western public discourse in the modern era, particularly after the September 11 attacks, as a response to rising Islamophobia.
An overview of this debate is discussed in an NPR Oxford-style debate report.
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