In another demonstration of unchecked ideological growth in the American heartland, Madrasah Islamiah, the Houston-area tax-exempt mosque and religious nonprofit, has advanced its ambitious Darul Quran project. The initiative is transforming a former bar into what promoters call Texas’s first full-scale Islamic boarding school and a comprehensive Sharia-centered community hub.
As detailed in RAIR Foundation’s May 2025 exposé, “Houston’s Sharia Pipeline,” this institution has long framed American society as “polluted with kufr [disbelief in Islam] and fisq [disobedience to Allah],” while training children and future clerics to “spread the Deen” globally and reject secular integration. Now, in early 2026, the project’s fundraising has surged forward, with over $1.55 million raised toward a revised $3 million goal – roughly 52% complete – according to the official Darul Quran website.
(See RAIR’s past report here: “Houston’s Sharia Pipeline: How a Texas Madrasa Trains Children and Clerics for Islamic Supremacy in ‘Polluted’ America (Video))
This update comes as the initiative continues to embody the Muslim Brotherhood’s documented “civilization jihad” blueprint: an internal front constructing insulated Sharia societies and an external front leveraging political proxies and outreach to advance Islamic influence without overt confrontation.
From Alcohol to Qur’an: The Imam’s Vision of Transformation
Founder Hafiz Muhammad Iqbal, in a promotional video, celebrates the site’s dramatic repurposing:
“Allah has given us a place as a gift, a place of the Qur’an. The place of the Qur’an was a place of alcohol. Now, the Qur’an and all other religious matters are happening there.”
He describes the 7-acre property in Richmond, Texas, acquired for $2.7 million with a $1.7 million loan still outstanding. Iqbal appeals urgently:
“It would be good if the loan for us is paid… After that, Inshallah, we have a complete plan. How many mosques will be there? What will be the parking? What are our other things?”
His vision: a total Islamic ecosystem where “all religious matters should be taught from beginning to end,” with full attention on “the Islamic school and the place of the Qur’an.”
The project promises a masjid, Texas’s first Islamic boarding school, Uloom madrasah, expanded prayer halls, new parking lots, and on-site community stores – creating a “cradle-to-grave” Sharia-compliant environment insulated from surrounding American culture.
The site has hosted prominent, controversial Islamic scholars, including Qari Ahmad Nuaina, Mufti Tariq Masood, and Muhammad Yousuf, reinforcing its role as an ideological dissemination hub. Masood, a Pakistani Deobandi cleric known for his calls for jihad and for the killing of blasphemers.
