The RAIR Foundation did the hard work to uncover the details of this story, regarding the transformation of a church in Texas into an Islamic complex. RAIR is still the source for more information about this initiative, as you can see in the report from March below.
These kinds of centers are spreading in the U.S. in large part because of the prevailing falsehood that Sharia merely covers private religious observance, and is a benign system with no political or supremacist content. Those who have sounded the alarm to the contrary have been stigmatized as “Islamophobes.” And so the advance of Sharia continues.
🚨 TEXAS CHURCH CONQUEST ALERT – WE WARNED YOU LAST YEAR, NOW IT’S HAPPENING
In March 2025, RAIR Foundation exposed the plan:
Radical imams Sheikh Karim AbuZaid and Sheikh Uthman Ibn Farooq were moving to Texas to lead the charge ….buying land, building mega-mosques,… https://t.co/q6QEds68Cc pic.twitter.com/fVVoQuuGFI
— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) March 10, 2026
More on this story. “Texas Church Conquered: Converted to Radical Dawah Seminary by Banned Imams Pushing Sharia Conquest,” by Donna Fodor, RAIR Foundation, March 9, 2026:
In the heart of Texas, a former Christian church is being sued by Salahuddin Future Academy to become an Islamic fortress—complete with a mosque, a K-12 school that Islamizes every subject, and a dawah seminary run by radical imams Sheikh Karim AbuZaid and Sheikh Uthman Ibn Farooq—aimed at aggressively refuting Christianity and expanding Islamic supremacy across America.
In the heart of Texas, another Christian sanctuary has been surrendered. The Korean World Mission Baptist Church, a place once dedicated to worshiping Jesus Christ, has been purchased by Salahuddin Future Academy (SAFA). The 40,000-square-foot property is being transformed into a multi-purpose Islamic stronghold: home to Masjid Dar Al-Tawhid (part of the Dallas Muslim Community Center), the full K-12 Salahuddin Future Academy, and the flagship AIM Dawah Academy & Seminary led by none other than radical Shaykh Uthman Ibn Farooq and tied to Imam Karim AbuZaid.
A former church, where baptisms and pews once symbolized Christian faith, will now echo with calls to prayer, host aggressive dawah training to “refute” Christianity, and educate children in an “Islamized” curriculum that rejects secular science as shirk unless Allah is explicitly credited as the sole cause.
According to their fundraising video, this project has been two years in the making. They are fundraising for the purchase, which will require $4 million for this 40,000 sq. ft. property. The goal is to raise $4 million in six months, and according to the AIM website, they have already raised $2.2 million, with a goal of raising $1.8 million more by the end of April. They frame it as “preserving authentic Islamic knowledge” while conveniently erasing the Christian foundation they’re overwriting.
This is no benign property flip; it’s dawah weaponized. Dawah, the Islamic “invitation,” is mandated in classical Sharia as the obligatory first step before jihad: Reliance of the Traveller (o9.8, endorsed by Al-Azhar) states the caliph makes war on Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians only after first inviting them to enter Islam (or pay jizya in submission), and war continues until they convert or submit (Quran 9:29). Here, the former church becomes dawah HQ: a seminary churning out aggressive refuters of Christianity, a school indoctrinating kids to reject secular facts as shirk unless Allah gets sole credit, and a mosque erasing Christian symbols to signal dominance. Far from harmless outreach, this institutionalizes the sequence: invite relentlessly, then escalate if refused. In Texas, tolerance is being exploited to build the infrastructure of submission.
This Islamic conquest project is led by the duo that RAIR Foundation has previously exposed, Sheikh Karim AbuZaid and Sheikh Uthman Ibn Farooq. It is part of a coordinated effort to advance a radical Salafi agenda in Dallas by purchasing land, constructing mega-mosques, buying and converting megachurches into mosques, and building a statewide network of Islamic centers….
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Wellington says
Islam disgusts me for many reasons and one of them is the way Muslims just assume they can come to Western nations and spread their religion, establish mosques (including converting churches into mosques), complain ad nauseam about even the slightest criticisms or even imagined criticisms, etc. but disallow, ordinarily upon pain of punishment or even death, for non-Muslims to come to Muslim nations and preach their faith, build their houses of worship, etc.
It’s a pure double standard and total hypocrisy. Muslims, your religion sucks.
Troybeam says
Wellington, Islam is not a religion. Why do you continue to state that?
Islam is a theocracy, look it up.
somehistory says
Do you not know that ancient Judaism was a “theocracy”? The Jews demanded a human king like the nations around them. And so Samual was told to anoint Saul, who was said to “sit on Jehovah” s throne as all of the kings afterward were said to do so
A theocracy is a rule by God and you can’t get more religious than that
Troybeam says
Islam does not have a king, they have men who rule with an iron fist of what Mohammed has written some 1400 plus years ago.
Islam was well written after Jesus was born, Mohammed used biblical figures in his writings so that he claimed a new religion. What it actually was is revenge on the people who shunned him and using force and slaughtering humanity he built a machine that even today the mentality has not and likely not will ever change. Jihad in Islam is to slaughter and conquer so that Islam is the only ruling entity on earth.
Might want to remember that when you defend Islam.
somehistory says
Get real. And read again what I wrote to you….if you are able.
I wrote nothing about a “king” in islime. Not a word. and if **I’m defending islime* then, so are you.
muzzlies claim that their book is from “god”….and not man made.
The Bible **is** from God; and the Laws given to Israel were what He wanted as the way for man to live and behave toward others.
Learn to read with understanding.
Wellington says
Troybeam: Islam is the one major religion, as Bertrand Russell noted a century ago, that is also a totalitarian ideology and therein lies the problem. And even assuming it’s a theocracy (more arguable here de facto than de jure), the definition of a theocracy (courtesy of the American Heritage Dictionary) is “Government ruled by or subject to religious authority.” So, you have effectively though unwittingly defeated your own argument.
Two other points: 1) Robert Spencer considers Islam a religion. Is he wrong too in your opinion? and 2) Where is it written that a religion cannot be bad?
Troybeam says
Islam is extremely bad, I disagree with Spencer on many levels.
Can a religion be bad? interesting question yet why are cults that claim religious stance considered bad?
Separation between church and state, Islam does not work that way.
Will not claim Islam as a religion but as a cult that seeks to destroy humanity that refuses to follow. Your free to call it a religion it’s your choice however would you convert to save your life?
Wellington says
One man’s religion is another man’s cult. Also, where is it written that a religion requires the separation of church and state? The fact that the Founding Fathers of America went out of their way to establish such separation is demonstrative of the fact that such separation had not existed in the Christian world—otherwise why was it imperative for the Founding Fathers to do so?
As just one example, once Henry VIII broke away from the Roman Catholic Church, Anglicanism became the only religion which could openly be practiced by those in England. Penalties aplenty existed even for other Protestants let alone for Catholics and thus is dispositive of NO separation of church and state. Another example is France in the 17th century once Louis XIV promulgated the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, which edict stated that only Roman Catholicism could legally be practiced in France.
Look, Troybeam, I know you mean well and I also know that you and I both detest Islam, but so far your statements about what constitutes a religion do not stand up to scrutiny. I write this in a spirt of friendship and not hostility.
gravenimage says
Yes a religion can be bad, Troybeam. The Aztecs pracriced human sacrifice, and the worship of Ba’al involved child sacrific. Both *evil* religions–so is Islam.
And a theocracy is imposing a faith on the secular society. You cannot impose a theocracy except with a religion.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I agree w/ Troybeam. The problem w/ the arguments about “bad religions” is that in the US, for constitutional purposes, they still get all the privileges that any religion gets
If one can describe islam as a religion, then communism too can be described as a religion, under the same criterion. Marx, Lenin and Mao had the same status in communism that Muhammad does in islam. So what if communism doesn’t have an imaginary deity, unlike islam? We’re already saying that one man’s cult is another man’s religion, under which framework, communism too applies. So is that protected under the first amendment?
Maybe Karl Popper’s law needs to be factored into the definition while determining for the purposes of the First Amendment what is or isn’t a religion
Wellington says
Yes, Marxism is protected under the First Amendment as is Nazism and a lot of other terrible ideologies—with respect to belief but not necessarily with action. If only Islam were looked upon as negatively as Nazism is, then the rest would fall into place.
Islam does not need to be banned or denied First Amendment protection as a religion; it “merely” has to be properly characterized as the awful religion which it is. Besides, as I have written before, you won’t be able to deny Islam religious status if you first don’t characterize it as evil. Ain’t there yet even with this.
Walter Sieruk says
One reason why those Muslim clerics remodel a church to turn into a large Islamic complex is that it’s symbolic of Islamic surpassing Christianity, as well as Islam’s superiority over Christianity.
Furthermore, one very good way to describe this twenty –first century “War of Ideas” is that of a great a conflict and a clash between Christianity and Islam. As explained by the Christian author, William Wagner,, in his book which is entitled HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD had explained on page 155 about a meeting that he had with a Muslim cleric , which reads “Several years ago one Imam told me that ,prior to 1990, the greatest enemy to Islam was Communism but now it is the Christian missions.” Further, on page 208 the Wagner had written about some zealous Muslims that “They have failed to stop Christian missions. They see Christian missions as their number one enemy.” On the very next page the reader is informed that “Christianity remains the number one buffer against Islam, a fact readily recognized by those who seek a world wild ummah.” [1]
[1] Ummah – The community of all those who affirm Islam.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Memo to all church owners in both America and Europe:
If you can’t pay your church’s rent or other expenses and need to shut down, a better idea would be to sell it to secular entities, be it Conference halls, Ballrooms, Business offices, Museums,…. any number of things that will get you back your money, and enable you to exit that institution gracefully
But please, please, do not sell it to muslim entities. Particularly if they plan to transform it into a mosque, or other “islamic complex”
Cynthia says
“The mosques are our barracks!” This truthful quote by Turkey’s Erdogan says it all.
We have so many warnings every day, yet ignore what is under our noses. Using a church is claiming territory and supremacy over a conquered nation.
This is exactly what they proposed after 9/11 a few blocks away from their site of carnage. Why isn’t Texas fighting back???
Walter Sieruk says
The construction of so many new mosques in America, as in Texas, is outstanding, in addition to the many other mosques that have been built across the United States. This is also a result of a large number of Muslim migrants who and entered into America.
All those mosques in the US does have a symbolic meaning. That meaning has been explained by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Dr. Daniel Shayesteh, in his book ISLAM THE HOUSE I LEFT BEHIND for in page 99 it informs the reader “The mosque is vital for establishing Muslims as sovereign over non-Muslims in a non-Islamic society or country. Building a mosque in a non-Islamic society or country symbolizes Islam’s claim over that society or country, even with a non-Muslim majority.”
medaber_emet says
the solution to islamization , just ban Islam
somehistory says
Wherever muzzlims live and also are the sitting government, they enforce their so-called “law.”
It’s laid out in their book of demon filth….how to treat women, how to treat little children, what to eat, wear, talk about in their barracks, how and when to lie….everything about life and how to bring death to others.
Any person who is fooled into believing the idea that only muzzlims live by those demands when muzzlims are in control of the country, should look to those 57 nations where the slime controls life for **all** who live there Some muzzies are stricter than others, and do more *enforcing.*
Take Nigeria, pakistan, afghanistan, saudi arabia, and see how women and children are treated. See in pakistan and nigeria how Christians are treated. Treated according to the “law” of slime.
The muzzie terrorists intend that for the citizens of Texas …a free-for-all of a bloodbath carried out by the friendly muzzie next door and down the street, and way out in Midland-Odessa, and beyond.
It’s a spreading evil of a “wild beast” from satan the devil, and it carries many swords.
Huh?!? says
As someone who lives in Texas, Texas has to do a better job of defending itself against Islam. The two men mentioned in this article need to be shown the door. Not just Texas but out of the U.S. Plotting to overthrow the U.S. is not protected speech. Texas needs to levy taxes on the Islamists. Search mosques and Islamic civic centers without notice. The magic word is now.
Anonymous says
Churches, Temples, Synagogues should never be handed over to Islamic Trusts or Muslim organizations, rather if the attendees have become less, they should be converted to community centers, hospitals, libraries or educational institutions. It will be helpful for community and prevent Islamic takeover.
OLD GUY says
I agree, islam is taking baby steps in its desire to invade America and if we let them they will grow to a vary ugly and mean individual.
IGWT says
izlam the evil cult NOT a religion
somehistory says
A ‘cult’ is a religion. The adherents of islime *worship* an entity they call their ‘god,’ and worship also a mass-murdering rapist who claimed to be a prophet and the book he supposedly wrote as being from that imaginary ‘god’. That makes it a religion
Whether or not it is a religion, is not the main point. It’s the fact that if’s evil and the adherents want to force….and are trying to…all of the rest of us to bow down to their beast.
Just as Nebuchadnezzar .tried to make the three Israelites bow down and worship his image of gold.
It’s a religion from satan the devil.
gravenimage says
Texas church to be transformed into Islamic complex to spread Islam
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In most cases it would be better to tear down a church than to hand it over to Islam. Converting churches into mosques is most Islamic supremacy.
somehistory says
The pastor, being Korean, was probably thinking the muzzlie was there as a *realtor* who said he could list the property and have people come to look and make offers.
The pastor probably did not understand the language of the muzzie….they don’t all speak clearly and of course, they lie like sleeping dogs and old carpet
My guess is, ,the muzzie represented himself as a realtor and the Korean took his lying word to mean the property would be ‘listed.’ whereas, the paper he signed for a *listing,* was really a sales contract.