Plano, Texas gives $1,200,000 to jihad-aligned Islamic charities, including EPIC City

The people who signed off on this gift have no idea what they’re dealing with. They think they’re fostering “diversity” and community harmony. They have no idea of the existence of an aggressive, expansionist, supremacist, violent ideology, and so have no idea what they’re doing to the future of their community by aiding its expansion.

“Plano, TX, Hands $1.2 Million to Radical Terror-Aligned Charities, Including Controversial EPIC City,” by Sam Westrop, Focus On Western Islamism, June 5, 2025:

The city of Plano, a wealthy suburb of Dallas, has handed over $1.2 million to extreme Islamist organizations, including an Islamic center under investigation by state and federal agencies over its alleged plans for a sharia enclave and whose leader advocated the killing of homosexuals; a mosque whose imam permits husbands to beat their wives; and two charities accused of links to foreign terror organizations.

East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC)

Since 2016, records published by the government of Plano, TX, indicate the city has given $219,000 to the controversial East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), despite ongoing law enforcement investigations into the notoriously radical mosque’s efforts to establish an enclave north of Dallas.

Significant national media attention on EPIC in recent months has focused on the mosque’s controversial plans to establish a 402-acre compound north of Dallas, named EPIC City.

Crucially, the most recent grant, of some $142,921, was provided on May 9, 2025, weeks after the state of Texas, on orders of Governor Greg Abbott, opened multiple investigations, including by the Texas Rangers, into the mosque and its “affiliated entities” for “potential criminal activities.”

On March 31, the governor declared: “Texas is a law-and-order state, and those scheming to evade law enforcement scrutiny must know justice is awaiting them. That is why I directed the Texas Rangers to fully investigate the group behind the proposed EPIC compound for potentially violating criminal law. Texas will ensure that anyone affiliated with EPIC who is breaking the law is brought to justice.”

The very same day the most recent Plano grant to EPIC was issued, the Department of Justice also established an investigation into the proposed compound.

EPIC’s head, Yasir Qadhi, is a prominent imam with a long history of involvement in Islamist causes. Some years ago, Qadhi openly expressed hatred for Jews and advanced Holocaust denial ideas.

In an undated recording, Qadhi also advocated the killing of homosexuals.

Despite claims he has renounced his earlier extremism and anti-Semitism, in October 2016, Qadhi offered a defense of the Taliban. And following the October 7 attacks by the terrorist group Hamas, in which over 1,200 Israelis were murdered, Qadhi declared he had “the luxury of bluntly saying I am not going to condemn the fight of an oppressed people.”

As noted by MEMRI, other imams at EPIC have, in sermons at the mosque, praised the October 7 attacks for putting “horror in the hearts of the enemy,” and declared that every “true Muslim would love to have such a death” as the Palestinian “martyrs.”

EPIC and its imam also support of efforts to free Aafia Siddiqui, an Al-Qaeda operative whom the FBI found to be planning a “mass casualty attack” against targets across America. In the lead-up to her trial, Siddiqui demanded that Jews be excluded from the jury, claiming the entire prosecution had been orchestrated by unnamed “Jews.” She was sentenced in 2010 to 86 years in prison, after the jury found that “Siddiqui attempted to murder Americans serving in Afghanistan, as well as their Afghan colleagues.”…