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Oct 12, 2026
Erick EricksonHOST
A separate development of rural properties called EPIC Ranches is also planned.
Erick EricksonHOST
According to Sam Westrop of the Middle East Forum, records published by the government of Plano, Texas indicate the city has given $219,000 to the controversial East Plano Islamic Center despite ongoing law enforcement investigations.
Erick EricksonHOST
Governor Greg Abbott has ordered the Texas Rangers to investigate the proposed EPIC compound for potential violating, potentially violating criminal law.
Erick EricksonHOST
The religious head of the EPIC Mosque and planned community is Yasir Qadhi, a Muslim scholar and theologian.
Erick EricksonHOST
A separate development of rural properties called Epic Ranches is also planned.
Erick EricksonHOST
According to Sam Westrop of the Middle East Forum, records published by the government of Plano, Texas, indicate the city has given $219,000 to the controversial East Plano Islamic Center despite ongoing law enforcement investigations.
Erick EricksonHOST
Governor Greg Abbott has ordered the Texas Rangers to investigate the proposed Epic compound for potentially violating criminal law.
Erick EricksonHOST
The religious head of the Epic Mosque and planned community is Yasser Qadi, a Muslim scholar and theologian.
Brandon WaltensHOST
A new report from the Texas Public Policy Foundation warns that Muslim nonprofits are exerting ideological and financial influence over Texas public universities and high schools.
Brandon WaltensHOST
The report by Sam Westrop identifies a network of organizations with alleged ties to radical Islamist movements.
Brandon WaltensHOST
At Texas A&M University, the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America has donated millions of dollars to support food science programs.
Brandon WaltensHOST
However, Westrop says the organization also funds groups connected to Islamist movements overseas.
William LangNARRATOR
Stephen Evans, chief executive of the National Secular Society, tells me that the photograph and the award decision illustrate the Church's naivety about the figures and practices it legitimises in the name of interfaith engagement.
William LangNARRATOR
In a 2013 report titled The Interfaith Industry, Sam Westrop pointed out that interfaith initiatives are easily exploited by extremist groups, which use them to gain access to politicians and policymakers.
William LangNARRATOR
Westrop, who is currently the director of the Middle East Forum's Islamist Watch programme, tells me that the whole idea needs to be rethought.
William LangNARRATOR
An actual useful interfaith programme, never tried before, would put aside the awards and cupcakes and instead establish partnerships with Muslim reformists to identify and defeat the Islamist ideological forces that sow ruin on generations of Muslims, incite violence and divide societies.