{"id":2670012,"date":"2026-09-25T15:17:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T19:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwe-want-islam-for-this-country-muslims-in-texas-lay-out-vision-for-islamic-america\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T19:21:04","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwe-want-islam-for-this-country-muslims-in-texas-lay-out-vision-for-islamic-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwe-want-islam-for-this-country-muslims-in-texas-lay-out-vision-for-islamic-america\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Want Islam&#8217;: Muslims In TX Lay Out Vision For Islamic America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwe-want-islam-for-this-country-muslims-in-texas-lay-out-vision-for-islamic-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2670012&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>During a livestream event at the Sufaraa Centre in McKinney, Texas, Shaykh Uthman ibn Farooq shared his vision of establishing an Islamic America, highlighting the importance of Islamic principles within the U.S. He emphasized that Muslims have constitutional rights to practise Sharia law and compared various viewpoints, such as socialism and Satanism, to illustrate religious freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution. Farooq, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-charged-with-election-interference-for-social-media-post\/\" title=\"Conservative charged with election interference for social media post\">social media influencer<\/a> associated with the one Message Foundation, advocates for conventional Islamic teachings, including polygamy, and has made controversial statements, including justifying slavery. <\/p>\n<p>The event was organized by Authentic Ilm Mission (AIM), which is fundraising to build a 40,000-square-foot Islamic community center near Plano, Texas, intended to host Islamic education and proselytization activities. The project aims to replace a former Christian church with a mosque and is partially funded thru donations from around 1,500 individuals worldwide. Farooq also discussed the importance of resisting compromise in Islamic principles, citing ancient Muslim conquests in Europe as a lesson. <\/p>\n<p>Farooq\u2019s past statements have sparked controversy; notably, he was barred from entering the UK due to remarks justifying slavery, and he expressed hopes for a Muslim-dominated Europe. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, which has a large Muslim population, there is ongoing debate regarding a nearby Islamic center and progress projects, including a proposed &#8220;Muslim city&#8221; that faces legal challenges. The broader context highlights the increasing visibility and contentiousness of Islamic initiatives within the region.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>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,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-approves-lab-grown-chicken-made-from-cultivated-cells\/\" title=\"U.S. approves \u2018lab-grown\u2019 chicken made from cultivated cells\">000-square-foot facility<\/a> near Plano, Texas, and used the livestream featuring Farooq to fundraise for the multipurpose school and Islamic community center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love this country,\u201d Farooq <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FyUmfv6ynVs\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe want good for this country. And that\u2019s why we want Islam for this country, \u2019cause we think that\u2019s the best thing. And we\u2019re not going to be ashamed of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to argue that Muslims are fully within their constitutional rights to adhere to Sharia law. \u201cWe\u2019re Muslims. That\u2019s our identity, and there\u2019s nothing wrong with that. The Constitution of this country protects that. That\u2019s our right to believe in the Sharia. Yes, I said it. That\u2019s our right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s communists that believe in communism and live in America,\u201d Farooq continued. \u201cThe current mayor of New York is a socialist. Bernie Sanders is open socialist. \u2026 Our president \u2014 I don\u2019t know what the, what he is actually. I don\u2019t think he knows what he is. \u2026 But he has that right according to the Constitution. \u2026 There are Satanists. There\u2019s a church of Satan. I\u2019ve debated them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Farooq works with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onemessagefoundation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">One Message Foundation<\/a> and is a viral social media influencer. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gemsofshaykhuthman\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/OneMessageFoundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube<\/a> pages boast 430,000 and 1.4 million followers, respectively. The One Message Foundation\u2019s homepage says it, together with other groups, converted nearly 1,500 individuals to Islam during the World Cup. Farooq\u2019s social media videos feature his commentary speaking of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYl61nHqsWG\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">polygamy as legitimate<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYUIWg5q6uL\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speculating<\/a> that President Donald Trump may be an evil spirit.<\/p>\n<p>The event host, Authentic Ilm Mission (AIM), which is led by Dr. Karim AbuZaid and Farooq, is fundraising for an expansive Islamic facility \u201cin one of the most densely Muslim-populated areas between Richardson and Plano,\u201d according to the group\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/aimseminary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>. On the former site of a Christian church, the four-acre campus and its facilities \u2014 40,000 square feet in total \u2014 will be used to host \u201cIslamic K-12 education,\u201d a seminary, and training in Da\u2019wah, that is, Islamic proselytization.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RedGreenWatch\/status\/2103166266521325727?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has surpassed<\/a> 3,000 in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>During the livestreamed event, Farooq said that the classes offered at the \u201cDa\u2019wah center\u201d would help \u201ceducate our youth to have that knowledge \u2026 [and] refute Christian apologists and Islamophobes and hadith-rejectors and anybody else that\u2019s trying to deviate Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also warned against compromising Islamic principles, framing the warning in terms of Muslims\u2019 military conquests in Europe. Muslims being driven out of parts of Europe in and around the 1500s demonstrate the consequences of compromise, Farooq said: \u201cPortugal and Spain, Sicily \u2014 these areas were under Muslim rule for around 700 years. \u2026 When the Muslims went there, one of the leaders of the Muslims \u2026 went with sword in hand, <em>iman<\/em> in heart \u2026 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandeis.edu\/projects\/fse\/muslim\/slavery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorsed<\/a> by Muhammad in the Quran. Farooq visited Europe in April 2025. When speaking at a Birmingham mosque, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/05\/21\/ban-islamist-preacher-sex-with-female-slaves-lawful\/\">said<\/a>, \u201cThe future is ours. Every ideal nightmare of a Muslim Europe will come true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Texas has one of the highest Muslim populations in the United States at <a href=\"https:\/\/worldpopulationreview.com\/state-rankings\/muslim-population-by-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 300,000<\/a>, and a significant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thearda.com\/us-religion\/statistics\/rankings?typ=2&#038;cod=7&#038;u=1&#038;con=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">portion<\/a> 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, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/republican-campaigns-target-muslims-in-texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">which<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keranews.org\/news\/2025-05-28\/east-plano-islamic-center-muslims-collin-county-hate-epic-city-housing-development-investigations\">boasts<\/a> 10,000 members and is embroiled in controversy that garnered nationwide attention with its efforts to establish a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/04\/08\/texas-ag-candidate-tried-to-force-towns-to-greenlight-development-of-muslim-sharia-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Muslim city<\/a>. The legal battle over EPIC\u2019s planned complex of more than 450 housing plots <a href=\"https:\/\/thetexan.news\/judicial\/texas-officials-continue-fight-against-epic-city-despite-recent-travis-county-court-ruling\/article_5941ed1b-a226-4877-9360-0a0e4fd6fd30.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">is ongoing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Joshua Monnington is an assistant editor at The Federalist. He was previously an editor at Regnery Publishing and is a graduate of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaykh Uthman ibn Farooq envisions an Islamic America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3134,"featured_media":2670013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Copy-of-Untitled-2026-09-25T120309.561.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[26161,86249,52358,3694],"class_list":["post-2670012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-islam","tag-islamic-america","tag-muslims-2","tag-texas"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Copy-of-Untitled-2026-09-25T120309.561.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2670012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670017,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670012\/revisions\/2670017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2670013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}