As there has been a rise in Muslims infiltrating Texas and trying to bring Sharia law into communities, it has been revealed that the State of Texas has actually been giving more than $13 million in federal and state grants to various Islamic mosques and organizations.
According to a report from the Middle East Forum, Texas has handed out more than $13 million to Islamic organizations that have been connected to terrorist organizations like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Eighteen Islamic organizations, including the Islamic Education Center of Houston, the Islamic Center of Greater Austin, the Islamic Ahlul Bayt Association, and the Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation, have received large sums of money to continue promoting harmful ideologies that do not align with Western beliefs.
According to an investigation conducted by the Middle East Forum, twelve of the eighteen organizations receiving funding have ties to Islamic extremism. In fact, the twelve organizations have received just over 99 percent of the money handed out by the state.
The Islamic Education Center of Houston has received more than $485,000 from the state between 2021 and 2023. The mosque is allegedly managed from Tehran, Iran. Additionally, the mosque’s actions have shown a correlation with the Iranian regime, as they filmed a performance of a song in 2022 where children at the mosque pledged allegiance to Ayatollah Khamenei, who has been serving as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989. At one point in the song, the kids sang, “May my father and mother be sacrificed for you, I will sacrifice everything for you…I make an oath to be your martyr, Ali.”
In 2019, the mosque uploaded a song on its YouTube channel, featuring the children’s choir singing a song celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. The children sang that Khamenei is their leader and they are his soldiers.
Just north of Houston, the Islamic Center of Greater Austin has also received $150,000 from the Texas state government. On October 18, the mosque’s imam, Dawood Yasin, hosted a pro-Hamas activist, Sam Hamdi, who has been open about celebrating the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas on Israeli citizens. According to The National Post, Hamdi told an audience at one of his speeches to “celebrate the victory” of the Hamas terror attacks.
Another Islamic organization in Austin has also been given more than $100,000. In 2023, the Office of the Governor supplied $101,000 of funding for the Islamic Ahlul Bayt Association. IABA has posted a presentation on its YouTube channel about causes that matter most to them, which include “Al Quds Day” and the imprisonment of Sheikh Zakzaky.
Al Qud’s Day was established by Iran and is a global event that promotes the destruction of Israel and celebrates the terrorist organization Hezbollah.
Sheikh Zakzaky is a prominent Islamic movement preacher who founded the Islamic movement in Nigeria. Zakzaky has been known to describe Jewish people as the “lowest creatures on earth.” He has been detained multiple times by the Nigerian government for accusations of civil disobedience.
The Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation has been given more than $11 million in total between 2015 and 2025.
TMFW has been known to host radical Islamists to speak to their organization. In 2017, the group hosted Omar Suleiman, who is a leading supporter of convicted Al-Qaeda terrorist Aafia Siddiqui and former convicted terrorist Ali Al-Tamimi.
In recent news, an Islamic cleric in Houston has been demanding that shopkeepers stop selling alcohol, pork, and lottery tickets to comply with Islamic Sharia laws. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has since said that he has signed laws that ban Sharia Law and compounds in Texas, and that businesses do not have to fear their demands.