A new university has opened in the Dallas suburbs, calling itself the first in the United States to offer STEM degree programs that include required Islamic Studies. Texas American Muslim University, known as TexAM University at Dallas and run by the nonprofit Texas American Institute for Technology at Dallas, is now open in Richardson and is accepting applications for Spring 2026.
The university says its mission is to blend modern technology with Islamic beliefs. It aims to give students technical skills while supporting Islamic values. The motto is to build a strong community through quality education. Graduates are prepared for roles in digital innovation, Islamic finance, digital services, and religious education in a tech-focused world. About 30 percent of the coursework is mandatory Islamic Studies, so Islamic teachings and ethics are part of every technical subject, including AI, cybersecurity, and health informatics.
The university offers degrees in high-demand areas. Students can earn bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, and Health Informatics. There is also an online master’s program. Certificate courses cover topics like Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Islamic Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, Introduction to Cybersecurity, the U.S. Healthcare System, and Introduction to Islamic Finance.
Notable faculty include Prof. Dr. Toseef Azid for Islamic Finance, Adjunct Prof. Imran Rasheed for Cybersecurity, Prof. Dr. Javaid Ajmal for Health Informatics, and Prof. Dr. Muazzam Khattak for AI ethics. Classes are offered through a mix of live and online formats.
Admissions for Spring 2026 are now open. The university is offering special introductory pricing to attract early students, with some three-credit courses costing as little as $99. It also partners with donors to cover tuition and fees for students from lower-income families. There is a special program for Pakistani students that demonstrates the university’s international focus. The campus is located at 1100 E. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75081.
The university’s public materials do not clearly state its accreditation status. TexAM is described as a faith-based school and works with local community facilities. Its events include iftar gatherings and donation drives.
This development should set off alarm bells for Texas families, policymakers, and national security observers. The core concern is that by embedding mandatory Islamic Studies as 30 percent of a STEM curriculum, TexAM creates an institutional framework that promotes Islamic ethics within technical education.
The main argument is that this model stimulates a parallel system that could undermine integration with American secular norms. The university promotes this fusion as a strength, highlighting values such as risk-sharing and the prohibition of riba in finance, and supporting the cultivation of “future Muslim leaders.”
However, Britain’s experiences with the consequences of parallel societies show the potential dangers: when education and community structures are deeply driven by religious ideology, societal integration may falter, and vulnerabilities can emerge.
Texas already faces similar experiments, such as EPIC City proposals and the expansion of faith-centric enclaves. Allowing a university to train tech professionals in an explicitly Islamic ethical framework risks producing graduates whose main loyalty is to Sharia-derived values instead of the U.S. Constitution.
This is especially critical in disciplines like cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and healthcare data. Questions about foreign funding, influence from international Islamic networks, and H-1B pipelines for Pakistani recruits add to this concern.
The university’s leaders are Dr. Ghulam M. Chaudhry (President), Dr. Saleha Suleman (Vice President of Admissions and International Affairs), and Shahid A. Bajwa (CEO and “Lead Dreamer” of the Texas American Technologies Foundation). Their stated goal is to build a community of Muslim professionals based on Islamic teachings. Some observers say that, with growing worries about foreign influence and radicalization, this approach could affect community unity, assimilation, and national sovereignty.
As enrollment builds for Spring 2026, materials on the university’s sites emphasize the ambition: to become a global leader in education-driven innovation yet keeping Islamic principles at the center.
The primary test will be whether graduates assimilate into Texas’s broader economy and civic culture, or whether this approach accelerates the fragmentation of American higher education.
State officials and lawmakers must seek full transparency about curriculum and funding, accepting the main argument: ignoring recent international warnings about religious parallel societies could have serious repercussions.
David Lakatos says
What they going to teach how to be perverts.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Or islamic “sciences” about the value of camel urine
J Gorman says
I cannot imagine your average cowboy boots wearing Texan to be OK with the spread of Islam in his own state. Where is the massive American majority revolt against this garbage?
OLD GUY says
Most are too busy making a living and being entertained to see it coming.
somehistory says
The “news” thread which moves across the computer screen everyday says a lot about what people are seeing as important. Yesterday, there was a “headline” regarding the new hairdo of m. hargitay (sp may be wrong) of the t.v. crime show and how so many are going bonkers (my words) over it.
If true, that’s one reason so many are not paying attention to what is happening around them. Stuck on stupid and mundane things. And, of course, “making a living” is getting more and more difficult, so that rightly takes a huge amount of time and energy, as well as thinking.
I lived in Texas for 20 years. A middle-aged woman told me once that “Walker, Texas Ranger” was **real.** It was a ‘real television show,’ and very popular. She believed Chuck was a ‘real’ Ranger.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Somehistory
I just disable News apps in any computer/phone that I have, and go to specific websites like this one for my news. Also, I don’t look at the foreign news section of any site. If I want Israeli news, I go to JNS. If I want to know what’s going on in Iran, I go to Iran International. US news – Breitbart. And so on
As a result, I don’t know of any celebrities, and don’t regret not knowing
somehistory says
Thank you, Infidel. I don’t read them, just the headlines which tells me what people out there are taking in and caring about.
I see a lot of news from Israel on sources from that nation and a few small sources I find I can trust for other news. I do read some from FOX and Newsmax, etc .and compare in order to analyze what is true or not.
Ugly 312 says
Infidel, so.ehistory, I am going to adopt that news gathering technique as the b.s. adds to my anger and i dobt need any help with that. Thank G-d for jihadwatch and all the good people who contribute on here. Thanks for the turn on.
Richard
Dan Wedlake says
Absolutely this must be shut down immediately. THe Islamic mind never assimilates, it subverts with good sounds ideas and fake culturally acceptable language (taqqiyyaa) never expressing their actual goal of total cultural erasure of the host country! Crush the head of the snake before bites!
This civilization survival fight, we can’t afford to lose.
Praiser says
Amen
ploome says
regarding :
” Where is the massive American majority revolt against this garbage?”
the revolt is being blocked and criminalized.
What we are seeing is a resurgence of Christianity, which is significant and encouraging.
Wellington says
Sharia creep, this time in Texas. What a cancer, yes cancer, Islam is.
Walter Sieruk says
This news is ,somewhat , of a reminder that the subversive insidious stealth jihadists with their Islamic goal for the advancement of the power in influence of Sharia in America continues. As observed in the specific of Texas, for its “Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on April 6th an investigation into a Dallas –based group accused of operating as a Sharia [Islamic law] court. In a statement, Paxton said he requested documents from the group, known as the Islamic Tribunal, regarding allegations that it was issuing ruling based on Sharia …. Paxton warned ‘Anyone or any entity that seeks to subvert the codified and federal laws of this country will be stopped.”
The article further informs its reader that Paxton explained “While the First Amendment allows religious organizations the right to govern themselves, it doesn’t allow areligious organization to act as a court, apply foreign laws that conflict with Texas or federal law, or issue ruling that imply to government authority.”
The cunning scheming seditious subversive stealth jihadists are, indeed very active in Texas as well as in other States across America. Therefore, all American patriots who believe that the United States Constitution should be the law of the land for the US and not Sharia need be aware and informed.
Source: The Epic Times, April 8-14. AB
Barbara Bass says
It states that the goal is Islamic teachings..How many credits for the “how to be a terrorist” course?
As an American citizen, post WW11 (not eleven!) refugee, it is my opinion that my country has been infected by far worse than Covid, an epidemic of imbeciles.
marshall s dicker says
how can they be stopped?
ploome says
demography is destiny
is this the “diversity” good for America?
Winston 101 says
“Beware of Islam Bearing Gifts (Talents)!”
Beware of Islam’s Muslims having talents that are highly valued by the U.S.economy.
The point of the coursework is the STEM fields.
This makes the graduates VALUABLE AND VERY ATTRACTIVE TO THE U S ECONOMY. That value makes Unbelievers blind to the incompatibility of the “Islamic Values” taught in the remainder of the coursework.
These are not the Fraud Jihadis that steal upfront – these are the Techno Jihadis that make themselves valuable to the economy they wish to conquer. So much so, that Unbelievers will recruit them and pay them to come to work inside their companies!
It’s getting “the Great Satan”,your avowed enemy, to hire you, so you can work inside the heart of his economic and defense systems. Islam is training them as “techno-honeypots” fueled by their Islamic beliefs of conquest of the Unbelieving United States.
There’s a lot more to say, e.g. follow the financing of this “University”(Military Training School) etc., but for now the goal of this endeavor is there to see, if you haven’t been blinded by thinking that Islam is “just another religion”.
Islam is a totalitarian form of government, that competes with, and is incompatible with,
the U S Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Bar the Government, that is Islam, at the U S Border
Ugly 312 says
Combining modern technology with Islamic beliefs, the article stated
Now there is a perfect example of a contradiction.
:Look Ahmed, I have put blue tooth in Shira’s hijab to set off a small electric shock in case any hair may be uncovered”.
The left working hard to exterminate western values at every turn.
James Lincoln says
So, the graduates will be STEM majors with islamic values.
What could possibly go wrong?
aum says
Islamic studies – Its okay to marry a 9 year old girl and treat women as 2nd class citizens.
David Lakatos says
What garbage. Muslims think that they’re the moral high authority on planet earth. Which is completely absurd. What they really are is murderers, raspiest, pedophiles, misogynists, and slavers
Patricia Krol says
I wonder if they will allow non- Muslims to enroll?
Troybeam says
Try to apply, must submit, this is another issue of SEGRGATION.
Just like the one in Berkley California. Muslim only.
Troybeam says
Segregation, better spelling.
gravenimage says
Yes, Troybeam–the first of these grotequeries was “Zaytuna Univerisoty”, which opened near UC Berkeley in a Lutheran Church several years ago. At first they seemed to be dormant, and I thought it was just a money laundering scheme–but they are now getting taxpayer money. Sickening.
David Block says
Paxton and Texas A & M University have both filed suit “TexAM?” Copyright infringement? You don’t say!
gravenimage says
Yep–they might fool a few people.
somehistory says
“Texas, Texas A&M are now going after a little-known Muslim university in Dallas”
“The school, known as TexAM University, recently received a cease-and-desist order from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, which accused the institution of operating without proper authorization and misleading students into believing it can grant degrees.
Abbott amplified the dispute Thursday in a post on X, writing that he directed the state to issue a cease-and-desist order to “TexAM,” which he described as “an unauthorized Islamic educational institution operating illegally in Texas.”
“If they refuse to comply, legal action will follow,” Abbott wrote. “Texas will not allow illegal educational institutions to operate in our state.”
The Texas A&M University System separately issued its own cease-and-desist letter on Friday, arguing the Dallas institution’s name too closely resembles the Texas A&M brand and could create “confusion and misleads the public.”
“The Texas A&M University System has a responsibility to protect the name and trademarks, which represent more than a century of academic excellence, public trust and institutional integrity,” Chancellor Glenn Hegar of The Texas A&M University System said in a public statement. “When another organization uses branding that is similar, particularly in the same educational space, we must act to prevent confusion and protect the value of those marks.”‘
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-texas-a-m-are-now-going-after-a-little-known-muslim-university-in-dallas/ar-AA22N9Ns?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=69fff015a66249b6b6b8ae17d6f54b13&ei=49
Mo says
Wow, Texas, of all places! I used to think TX was one of the last sane states in this country!
gravenimage says
Mo, I *wish* this was still the case.
somehistory says
See m comment above….which is a quote about what Gov. Abbott and Texas A&M are doing….because the school is breaking laws.
David Lakatos says
Islam is a war plan. Fighting Islam is nothing new. But letting them on your soil to spread their disease is something new.
Troybeam says
Islam in America was allowed in due to the 1965 immigration law changes by the democrats. (The 1952 immigration law forbid Islam inside of America because it is a foreign government (sharia law)and threat to America. ( Smarter in 1952 for sure)
Since then and has escalated to an all out growth inside America from small mosques in towns to mega mosque cities. Schools / colleges for Muslim’s only, sharia banking for Muslim’s only: B of A is big on this movement, grocery stores, sharia law schools on major campuses, elected officials in state governments are ruining the cities where elected.
See a pattern people: Better wake up or America will become like the UK, the UK has taken sides with Islam and the British citizen is screwed over by their own goverenment.
David Lakatos says
Yep.100% correct.
David Lakatos says
Islam is a menace wherever it grows.