Posted on 10/05/2026 4:44:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Islamic Center of Nashville (ICN) is once again wrapping itself in the language of “diversity,” “inclusion,” and “beyond borders.”
It proudly showcased its 6th Annual Diversity Brunch as a resounding success. Approximately 600 people attended. Food and cultural exhibits from more than 30 nations filled the space. Uzbekistan, Malaysia, and Mexico took top honors. Second Harvest Food Bank collected donations. The Nashville Banner received a “Beyond Borders Award” for being a “champion of inclusion and justice.” Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell was there as a special guest – lending the city’s highest office to the mosque’s photo op. Police officials also joined in for photo ops.
It all sounds harmless enough: food, culture, community, inclusion.
But look past the food tables.
The Islamic Center of Nashville’s (ICN) Board President and director of outreach is Rashed Fakhruddin. That same family network connects directly to the American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC). Sabina Mohyuddin, AMAC’s Executive Director, is Rashed Fakhruddin’s sister. Metro Councilwoman Zulfat Suara has publicly described Sabina, Rashed, and herself as siblings in the same family circle. Suara is Tennessee’s first Muslim lawmaker and a former AMAC board member.
AMAC was founded in 2012 to gut Tennessee’s anti-Sharia bill. It now runs a “School Advocacy Hub” that hands Muslim students template letters demanding prayer accommodations, Ramadan and Eid exemptions, and tools to purge “Islamophobic” curriculum – while linking to CAIR resources and pushing “faith-based bullying” surveys.
On April 1, 2026, AMAC bused hundreds of activists into the Tennessee State Capitol for its 8th Annual “Muslim Day on the Hill,” advertising a record turnout and framing the goal as protecting “community infrastructure” – code for mosques, halal mandates, school prayer rooms, and insulation from scrutiny.
In January 2017, AMAC brought Yasir Qadhi – the Saudi-trained Salafi cleric driving Texas’s EPIC City project – into the Tennessee Capitol complex to deliver a Friday khutbah. Qadhi has rejected democracy in favor of Sharia and called for Muslims in government, the Pentagon, the FBI, and the CIA.
Meanwhile, Nashville’s Muslim networks are celebrating another institutional win: two Muslim women on the Metro Nashville Public Schools Board of Education. Dr. Berthena Nabaa-McKinney, first elected in 2022 as Tennessee’s first Muslim school-board member, is serving another term after winning her 2026 primary. She previously served as principal of Nashville International Academy, ICN’s Islamic school, and appears on AMAC conference materials. Hannah Said, AMAC Youth Leadership Program graduate (2025–2026), was appointed student member of the board. Both were sworn in on the Quran. Community posts call the pairing “history in the making.”
Tennessee’s proposed “religious liberty” bills would have given that network a legal opening. HB1491 created a daily period for prayer and religious texts; AMAC admitted it “may open the door for school sanctioned prayer spaces for Muslim students.” SB1041 would allow school chaplains; AMAC admitted it could “open the door for other religious clerics, including Imams.” While it failed to pass and was sidelined, advocacy for prayer accommodations and special privileges for Muslim students in Metro Nashville schools remains active through groups like AMAC.
This is coordinated institutional penetration – mosque, advisory council, Capitol access, school board – sold to the public as brunch and “inclusion.” Zulfat Suara’s 2019 election to Nashville Metro Council, with a Quran used at her swearing-in, was an early political marker. AMAC’s Capitol days and Qadhi’s 2017 appearance were another. The Diversity Brunch and the school-board milestone are the latest.
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Little by little they are taking over.
Someone ought to do something to stop them...
Where is Richard the Lionheart when you need him?
Sounds like an organization to be rid of, & the sooner the better.
A few years ago I was fueling up in Murfreesboro and an Escalade pulled in with a Middle Eastern looking and dressed dude, 2-3 women in full burka or whatever with head/face covering, only eyes showing, and a kid or two. It was disconcerting, not what I expected to see in Middle Tennessee.
Can we call it sedition and advocating overthrow of the Republican form of federal government yet ?
If not now, when ?
Must we wait till they have taken over towns and cities and then eventually start shooting and I.E.D.i g us with what ever their mosque/school/clinic/armories have stashed waiting for the go signal ?
Asking for a friend .
We somehow managed to survive more than 200 years without muslim influence and various special accommodations for them. We don’t need this BS, it isn’t helping, it doesn’t improve all of society, it doesn’t accommodate to our social norms, it doesn’t help make a better America.
We have a healthy tolerance for differences among our citizens. We generally do not have to care about whatever religion a fellow citizen may practice, if any.
The problem is that these muslims DO NOT TOLERATE US. They don’t accept the notion that we don’t become them.
I know this is Captain Obvious commentary, but watching what is happening in Europe could just as easily happen here. It needs to stop.
Let’s not get gaza’ed on another oct 7th.
HORRIBLE. Arrogant, mentally ill MoFos are imposing their will on Tennessee. Which Americans capitulated and why? TRAITORS to the republic.
HISTORY - 1400 years / over 300 MILLION innocent people murdered by Muslims!
“Muslims” A mass of people who carry a "holy" book that says to murder all Jews and Christians who won't bow to their prophet.
And now we're flooding them into our country and even putting them into our government.
Can American voters be more stupid or are we trying to destroy ourselves, our kids and grand-kids AND our future???
BTW - That first Muslim president Obama said he "had a plan for America" .... and it was NOT for our good!
Nashville is a blue hive in a very red state. If leftists must move to Tennessee for jobs, etc. Nashville is their destination.
Someone ought to do something to stop them
Maybe when Convert to islam or Die starts ?
BUMP
And they do this everywhere.
We've been collectively saying this for the past 25 years as GW Bush declared Islam a "religion of peace" and started importing them over here non-stop.
These people need to find out what happened to the Japanese Americans during WW2. What is the Arabic equivalent to Nisei?
Deport all muslims before America is destroyed. They will not nor cannot assimilate. They will bring USA down right in front of us if something is not done.
When will the muslims Ban Toilet Paper and Order everyone to wipe with their hand like they do
It won’t be long and muslims will begin burning Christian Churches. They are already trying to destroy as many people as possible in aircraft all for allah.
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