The peaceful, rural landscape of Katy, Texas, is currently being transformed into a strategic beachhead for the global Islamic movement. At the center of this transformation is Main Al Qudah, a man whose deep roots in the Muslim Brotherhood and academic training at the extremist-breeding Al-Azhar University have culminated in the construction of an $80 million, 30-acre Islamic mega-compound, known as the Al-Huda Islamic Center.
Before delving into Al Qudah’s current foray into building an Islamic parallel society in Texas, his deep terror-tied history and that of his associates must be addressed.
Main Al Qudah entered America from Jordan in 2000 on a temporary religious worker visa at the invitation of the Islamic Society of Arlington in Texas (ISAT). It is unclear exactly who extended that initial invitation to Al Qudah. But it is known that he was coming to the ISAT when they were under intense scrutiny pre-9/11 for their ties to the founder of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.
The Osama bin Laden Network at the Islamic Society of Arlington in Texas
Main Al Qudah was initially brought to America to replace the mosque’s founding imam, Moataz Al-Hallak, who, along with another member of the mosque, had personal connections to Osama bin Laden’s network.
In addition to his role in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings (Kenya & Tanzania), the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, which claimed the lives of 17 American sailors, Osama bin Laden was the terrorist behind the 9/11/2001 terror attack, where 2,977 innocents were murdered, not including the nineteen terrorists who were also killed.
Moataz Al-Hallak was investigated after his name appeared on official registry documents for “Help Africa People,” an NGO run by Wadih El Hage, a fellow member of the ISAT mosque. The NGO claimed to help Africans with Malaria, but was a front for a bin Laden terrorist cell in Kenya. The funds for the NGO were raised in mosques. At least one donor, Pakistani Mohammad Salman Farooq Qureshi, knew that his $30,000 “donation” was funding terrorism.
Qureshi was sentenced to two years for lying to federal investigators. He returned to Pakistan upon his release.
Wadih El Hage, closely allied to Moataz Al-Hallak, was not just a member of the mosque. He was convicted on May 29, 2001 of conspiracy to kill Americans in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Those attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans, and injured more than 4,500 people. During a hearing in El Hage’s case, prosecutors stated that Moataz Al-Hallak “‘served as a contact’ between members of the bin Laden organization.” El Hage, it turned out, was bin Laden’s “personal secretary”. The lead prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, stated: “Mr. el Hage has served as a front man for the bin Laden organization for years.”
Additionally, Moataz Al-Hallak actively recruited young men from the Arlington mosque to fight in the Afghan jihad against the Soviets in the 1980s. This is reminiscent of Muslim Brotherhood-tied Texas school leader, Hamed Ghazali, who works closely with Main Al Qudah. Ghazali also recruited Muslims in America to fight with the mujahideen (armed Islamic fighters), in addition to soliciting funding and weapons, as will be discussed.
Both Al-Hallak and the mosque were listed on contact records for the Alkifah Refugee Center in Brooklyn, a key hub for Afghan war veterans that was later headed by several men convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Al-Hallak also served as an Islamic adviser in a jet purchase for a bin Laden-linked business. Despite this, Al-Hallak was never arrested or deported.
From ISAT Turmoil to $1.7M Michigan Mosque Victory
In the wake of the controversy, the Islamic Society of Arlington opted not to renew Moataz Al-Hallak’s contract. But Al-Hallak and his supporters resisted, allegedly “assaulting and threatening board members” and “tampering with mail”. These actions prompted the board to file a civil lawsuit and a restraining order.
Finally, Moataz Al-Hallak gave up and moved to Laurel, Maryland, where, coincidentally, he lived at the same time as several of the 9/11 hijackers, who had resided in the area shortly before the attacks. Al-Hallak was questioned again by federal prosecutors but was not charged with anything.
Al-Hallak later moved to Michigan, where he settled in Ann Arbor as imam of the Muslim Community Association (MCA) of Ann Arbor and Vicinity. The associated school, the Michigan Islamic Academy, applied in 2011 to the Pittsfield Charter Township to rezone or obtain a special use permit for a 26-acre parcel but it was denied, citing master plan incompatibility and traffic.
As a result, the Hamas-linked Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) requested that the Department of Justice (DOJ) step in. As always, the local news prominently featured a CAIR representative – in this case, CAIR-MI Executive Director Dawud Walid – claiming that the town denied the project due to “anti-Muslim bigotry”.
Under then-President Barack Obama, Pittsfield, facing massive legal costs for daring to deny the project, settled in 2014, paying $1.7 million (one of the largest payouts ever to a mosque), approving the full project, and agreeing to sensitivity training for officials.
According to Leo Hohmann of WND, the settlement gave Moataz Al-Hallak’s mosque the right “to build a 70,000-square-foot Islamic school, a residential development consisting of 22 duplex units and three single-family homes, plus a park…”
Ironically, the Michigan Islamic Academy stayed put, opting to expand its existing campus. Instead, the Hidaya Muslim Community Center will build a 58,000-square-foot community center on the same original land parcel.
Main Al Qudah Comes to the Islamic Society of Arlington in Texas
As the Islamic Society of Arlington in Texas was facing significant scrutiny for its terror ties, Al Qudah was hired to help stabilize it. A strange choice, as it will be revealed that Al Qudah has deep terror ties himself.
From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, November 9, 2001, Page 29:
Main Al-Qudah, a 32-year-old who had lectured on Islamic studies in Saudi Arabia, was hired to replace al-Hallak, a new board was elected, and the new leaders set about trying to heal the wounds.
Al Qudah’s Muslim Brotherhood Roots Exposed in Federal Court
Main Al Qudah entered the U.S. in 2000 on a temporary religious worker visa to replace ISAT’s Moataz Al-Hallak. After his visa expired in 2004, he stayed in the country illegally. In 2005, the government started deportation proceedings against him for overstaying his visa. He applied for asylum and other protections, but in 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected his appeal and ruled he should be deported.
Court records from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit disclose Main Al Qudah’s deep Muslim Brotherhood pedigree and lifelong activism. In his own testimony, Al Qudah admitted his father and uncle were members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a sinister global network which created the ideological backbone for Hamas, the Islamic State, Al Qaeda, and many other jihadi groups while inspiring thousands of terror attacks around the world.
From the January 2013 Order:
“Al Qudah is a Muslim scholar who claims past and future harm based on political opinion because he has advocated the imposition of Islamic law [Sharia] instead of secular law in Jordan.”
A History of Muslim Brotherhood Activism
Al Qudah was open about his Muslim Brotherhood connections, and used them to form the core argument of his case for asylum, in that he was discriminated against for his militant beliefs. After returning to Jordan from Egypt in 1991, Al Qudah sought government jobs but was rejected, he claimed. He gave weekly speeches and lectures at his mosque, taught the Quran, ran summer camps for Muslim youth, and participated in protests calling for replacement of laws in Jordan with Islamic law.
He complained in his court documents that Jordanian intelligence subjected him to a five-hour interrogation, where he disclosed his family Muslim Brotherhood ties. Within months he left for Saudi Arabia, then the United States in 2000.
The Sixth Circuit opinion, issued June 25, 2013, in Case No. 12-4235, details Al Qudah’s testimony, including his alleged inability to secure government work due to his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. A January 4, 2013, order from the same court denied his stay of removal, again accepting his description of events but finding no persecution.
Isn’t it ironic that Al Qudah’s argument to stay in America was that he was too radical for a Muslim-majority country?
Muslim Legal Fund of America – From the Holy Land Foundation to Hatem Bazian
Despite losing in court, an immigration judge granted Main Al Qudah a green card around 2018-2019. This incredible turn-around is a tribute to the radical Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA).
According to MLFA’s 2019 annual report, one of their earliest cases was the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), the largest Muslim charity in America at the time, whose leaders were convicted of providing financial and material support to Hamas.
Consider that in 2019, the HLF terrorists were already convicted, yet that did not stop the MLFA from claiming that they were unjustly targeted, “denied due process”, and referred to their conviction as “one of the worst miscarriages of justice in U.S. history.” The “Holy Land Five” has become a cause célèbre for militant Islamic activists including Marwan Marouf, Zohran Mamdani, and Omar Suleiman.
From Page 8:
“One of the earliest cases MLFA funded was the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), which at the time was the largest Muslim charity in America. HLF was targeted by a politically-motivated DOJ, denied due process, and shut down just weeks after the tragic events of 9/11. Then, five of its associated humanitarian leaders were over-zealously prosecuted under newly introduced national security laws and punished with excessive sentences in what is regarded by many today as one of the worst miscarriages of justice in U.S. history.”
MLFA was co-founded by Khalil Meek, who also helped found the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), an umbrella group that includes multiple organizations with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
In another amazing coincidence, Khalil Meek serves as a scholar and khateeb (those who deliver the Friday khutbah/sermon) at the Islamic Society of Arlington, the same mosque that originally invited Al Qudah to serve as imam.
MLFA is currently chaired by Hatem Bazian, who co-founded the deeply subversive organizations American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) (also a USCMO member) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
Main Al Qudah’s Muslim Brotherhood Networks and Fatwas
Main Al Qudah did not leave the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East. He jumped right into the Brotherhood networks in America. He is founder of the Muslim American Society-Katy (MAS-Katy, also known as Masjid Al-Rahmam), which was the subject of a RAIR-TV investigation. The Muslim American Society (MAS) has well-documented historical and ideological ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA)
Main Al Qudah is also a member of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA), where he serves on the “Resident Fatwa Committee”. AMJA is a non-profit, California-based organization established to import classical Islamic jurisprudence (Sharia) into Western Muslim communities, emphasizing the supremacy of Sharia over Western law.
The AMJA Resident Fatwa Committee includes Dr. Salah al-Sawy, who, as secretary general, authored the January 2009 fatwa stating “Now is not the time to discuss the errors of Hamas or any other Palestinian groups”, diminishing the actions of the U.S.-designated terrorist organization. RAIR Foundation has delved into the expansion of the Medical Center Islamic Society (MCIS) under Salah al-Sawy’s leadership. The location, land vaguely funded by “a group of Muslims living in Houston” was chosen for its proximity to the Texas Medical Center in Houston.
They state on their website that the goal is to bring Islam to the West:
“We are now working on completing the project to become a major Islamic center with several activities and focusing on the call to God Almighty in Western countries.”
See a screenshot from a March, 2026 video explaining the progress of the expansion:
The Islamic University referenced in the screenshot is Mishkah University. According to the George Washington University Program on Extremism report “Salafism in America: History, evolution, radicalization”, al-Sawy and AMJA founded the “Sharia Academy of America” in 2004, “which later changed its name to the Islamic University of North America”, and is “also known as Mishkah University.”
Salah al-Sawy also co-founded the American Open University, which states on their homepage that they “were pioneers in offering distant learning techniques for Islamic Studies at the undergraduate and graduate Degree levels in the Western Hampshire (sic).” They note that they are “a religious institution exempt from state regulation and oversight in the Commonwealth of Virginia.”
American Open University
Jaafar Sheikh Idris
Jaafar Sheikh Idris, who co-founded the American Open University with Salah al-Sawy, is a Sudanese Salafi ideologue who worked in Saudi institutions, became a Saudi citizen, and later moved to the United States. He was ultimately removed from America after his visa was revoked.
In addition to founding AOU, he taught at the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America (IIASA), founded in 1989 as an affiliate of the Imam Ibn Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The IIASA was raided by the FBI in 2004 and shut down.
A 2017 legal filing from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York summarized the post-9/11 investigations into Saudi-funded institutions. Here, it is revealed that sixteen (p. 78) of those who worked at the IIASA had their visas revoked, including that of Jaafar Sheikh Idris.
Revoking visas allowed the government to bypass the public-trial requirements of criminal prosecution while still achieving the national security objective of removing state-sponsored agents from the country.
This power was enhanced through the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA), which made a revoked visa a self-executing order for removal. It effectively closed the legal loopholes that previously allowed foreign officials to remain and fight their cases in U.S. courts for years.
Ali al-Timimi and the ‘Virginia Jihad Network’
Ali al-Timimi, a U.S.-born Salafi of Iraqi descent (parents Mehdi al-Timimi and Sahera al-Timimi), was mentored by Jaafar Sheikh Idris and taught at AOU. Al-Timimi and Jaafar Sheikh Idris co-founded the Dar al-Arqam Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, where he was the “primary lecturer” from 2000-2001.
Umar Lee is a longtime American Muslim convert who was deeply involved in the U.S. Salafi scene in the 1990s and early 2000s. In his widely referenced insider memoir “The Rise and Fall of the Salafi Dawah in America”, he describes the American Open University (co-founded by al-Timimi’s mentor Jaafar Sheikh Idris) as part of the Salafi network and states that classes there “would be given by Sheikh Ali al-Timimi”.
Read his memoir here:
Rise and Fall of the Salafi Dawah – Umar Lee by vtbaz
During this period, Ali al-Timimi emerged as the leader of what prosecutors called the “Virginia Jihad Network” – a group of about a dozen young Muslim men, many American-raised, who engaged in military training with paintball guns as preparation for jihad.
Al-Timimi did not participate in the paintball but was told about it and later advised the men on being more discreet after the FBI inquired.
From the official U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit opinion in United States v. Al-Timimi, No. 14-4451 (Jan. 9, 2026):
Al-Timimi chastised them for making their training efforts too obvious by meeting in a large group, wearing camouflage, and traveling to the paintball site together with their paintball guns.
Al-Timimi addressed a gathering of the group of wannabe jihadists on the evening of September 16, 2001. He instructed them to unplug the phone and not repeat anything said, then told them they needed to “repent,” “leave the United States,” and “Join the mujahideen,” stating, “it doesn’t matter if we fight the Indians or the Russians or the Americans, that this is all legitimate jihad.”
He specifically encouraged them to go to Pakistan to train with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) camps, an official U.S.-designated terrorist organization, which he described as being on the “correct path” of Islam.
The Department of Justice referred to this group as the “Northern Virginia Jihad Network,” explaining that Al-Timimi, an Islamic leader at Dar al-Arqam, “encouraged followers to go to Pakistan” for military-style training and then to “join the fight against American troops in Afghanistan.”
In 2005, Al-Timimi was tried by a jury of his peers in Virginia and convicted on 10 criminal charges, mainly “soliciting treason”. He was given a life sentence. At the time, Gordon Kromberg, the lead prosecutor in the case, said:
“Al-Timimi hates the United States and calls for its destruction. He’s allowed to do that in this country. He’s not allowed to solicit treason. That’s what he did. He deserves every day of the time he will serve.”
But in 2020, Ali al-Timimi was released to home confinement due to Covid-19, and earlier this year, on January 9, 2026, his convictions were completely overturned by a unanimous three-judge panel of Obama-appointed judges on the Fourth Circuit: James Andrew Wynn (who wrote the opinion), Stephanie Thacker, and Pamela Harris.
Read the entire opinion here:
As for the Dar al-Arqam Islamic Center, it dissipated, but has largely been absorbed by the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center. Idris himself “occasionally preached” at Dar al-Hijrah, and the current American Open University president, Anwar Hajjaj, continues to be featured there as a speaker.
The subject of this RAIR report, Main Al Qudah, received his “PhD” from American Open University, whose “Islamic Studies Degree Programs based on Al-Qur’an and the authentic Sunnah, which are identical to Al-Azhar University’s curriculum.” Neither the American Open University nor the Al-Azhar University is regionally accredited by any body recognized by the US Department of Education or Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
See Main Al Qudah’s CV obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism and shared with RAIR Foundation from the then-“Sharia Academy of America”:
American Open University promotes extreme Salafist ideology. Founded in 1995, AOU is one of the first American schools of Salafi learning with a curriculum heavily based on the works of Muhammad Surur, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood member who broke away and formed “Sururism”.
Sururism operates by taking the strict, literalist creed of Salafism (focusing on the “purity” of the faith) and weaponizing it with the Muslim Brotherhood’s methods of social organization and political dissent. This creates a “politicized Salafism” that pushes back against state authority and Western influence.
A perusal of AOU’s most recent 990 tax form (2024) available reveals a very small operation, with the description “University level education Islamic religion & language classes taught via reimote (sic) location education and seminars associates. Bachlor (sic) and masters.”
More Ties to Osama bin Laden through AOU President Anwar Hajjaj
The president of AOU, Anwar Hajjaj, has been involved with the institution for over 20 years. He formerly led the now-defunct Taibah International Aid Association, which was designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. Treasury and shut down for its role in funding al Qaeda.
The Taibah International Aid Association, co-founded by Abdullah A. bin Laden, Osama bin Laden’s nephew, was referenced in a civil suit by families of innocent people murdered on September 11, 2001.
Anwar Hajjaj, the president of AOU to this day, is named in the suit.
That case and many others has dragged on for decades, causing unimaginable grief to the families. In the meantime, Anwar Hajjaj was not deported, was never charged with a crime, and has been free to live his life in America. He was even championed by democrat Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, who “scolded immigration officials” for questioning Hajjaj. New Yorkers continue to elect Meeks, who remains in office to this day.
From page 298 of the embedded civil suit:
Although it purports to be a humanitarian organization, the Taibah International Aid Association furthers the aims and materially supports Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. Through the actions of its agents, officers and employees, Taibah has provided financial and material support to al Qaeda. The strong affiliation that Taibah maintains with many other al Qaeda front-groups demonstrates its place as a highly connected component of Osama bin Laden’s financial and logistical support network.
Read the civil suit here:
World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY)
It appears that American Open University president Anwar Hajjaj has an even deeper connection to Osama bin Laden, again through his nephew Abdullah A. bin Laden. The pair founded the Virginia-based U.S. affiliate World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY).
The International WAMY was founded during a 1972 conference in Saudi Arabia titled “Problems of Muslim Students and its Solutions.” One of the founders, Muslim Brotherhood leader Kamal Helwabi, died in 2023 at the age of 84. According to an obituary, he lived in London where he “became the Brotherhood’s official spokesperson in the West.”
In yet another coincidence, Main Al Qudah notes on his LinkedIn, as well as on the embedded CV, that he served as General Secretary of WAMY.
A 2017 civil complaint as part of the long-running multidistrict litigation over the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks delves deeply into WAMY, stating in part that they acted as a “tool for supporting the al Qaeda movement, on both the ideological and military fronts.”
WAMY’s U.S. branch in Virginia was raided by the FBI in 2004 as part of a terrorism-financing investigation. Computers and records were seized. WAMY effectively shut down in the wake of the investigation. No criminal charges were filed against the members of the subversive organization.
Treatment of Osama bin Laden’s US Relatives vs. 9/11 Families
In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Abdullah was among approximately 24 bin Laden family members and over 140 Saudi nationals who were whisked out of the country by the FBI and relocated to “safe” locations.
These departures were coordinated by White House official Richard Clarke and Prince Bandar bin Sultan of the Saudi Embassy and would have required approval from the George W. Bush White House. Despite the fact that WAMY’s Virginia offices were later raided by federal agents in 2004, Abdullah bin Laden was allowed to return to Saudi Arabia shortly after the 2001 attacks and has faced no criminal indictments in the United States.
It was not until the 2016 declassification of the “28 Pages” from the 2002 Joint Inquiry that the American people learned the FBI had previously maintained a national security file on Abdullah bin Laden.
Consider that Osama bin Laden’s family received immediate protection and safe passage while the 9/11 victims’ families have been forced to fight in court for over two decades.
Other Members of the AMJA Resident Fatwa Committee
Other members of the AMJA Resident Fatwa Committee include Waleed Al-Maneese, who serves as imam and board president of Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota. Dar al-Farooq has “produced at least five young members who left to fight for ISIS or al-Shabaab in Somalia”, as reported at RAIR.
Another member, Waleed Basyouni, publicly lectured that “Hamas is not a terrorist group.” Still another, Hatem al-Haj, authored the committee’s fatwa endorsing the death penalty for apostasy in countries with Muslim legislatures.
Like his peers, Main Al Qudah authored problematic fatwas. In a January 2, 2009 fatwa titled “Wife beating,” Al Qudah ruled that after all peaceful remedies fail, a husband is permitted to beat his wife in a “symbolic way” without causing physical harm as an expression of disapproval.
In an April 13, 2008, fatwa on hating the kuffar, he declared that Muslims must hate the disbelief of non-Muslims while outwardly treating them kindly. “There is a difference between treating people kindly and justly, regardless of their belief, and loving them on the same level at which Muslims love and show loyalty to each other,” he stated. “The former is required, while the latter is prohibited,” he continued.
On the same date of January 2, 2009, in a fatwa titled “If Apostates Must Be Executed, How Can We Say There Is Freedom Of Religion In Islam?,” Al Qudah affirmed that apostasy from Islam is punishable by death under the authority of a Muslim state and that there is no freedom of religion once a person has entered Islam.
Further, in an August 25, 2011, fatwa on zakat eligibility, he authorized the use of obligatory charity funds for healthcare projects in Muslim countries and explicitly referenced the Fiqh Council of the Muslim World League’s ruling that such money may also support “legitimate Jihad activities.”
By maintaining an extensive fatwa archive and influencing hundreds of mosques nationwide, AMJA functions as an institutional bridge that keeps North American Muslims tethered to medieval Islamic legal doctrines rather than American constitutional values.
Main Al Qudah and his Muslim Brotherhood Comrade Hamed Ghazali
Main Al Qudah and Hamed Ghazali are longtime professional colleagues and co-leaders in Islamic educational and community institutions in the Houston, Texas area, primarily affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Muslim American Society.
Houston Quran Academy
- Houston Quran Academy (HQA, originally Al Noor Islamic Academy): In 2008, MAS Houston launched a full-time Quran memorization program in a rented space. Main Al Qudah, then Imam of the MAS Katy Center, led the effort as the main person behind the Quran program, starting with 10 to 14 students focused solely on Quran recitation and memorization. In spring 2009, for the 2009-2010 school year, Hamed Ghazali joined the school. He expanded the curriculum to include core academic subjects and renamed it Houston Quran Academy. The school later moved to the MAS Katy Center campus, of which Al Qudah was a founder, and grew significantly.
- Al-Huda University (Guidance College): In 2012, the institution was established under the guidance of Hamed Ghazali and Main Al Qudah, with support from the MAS Katy community. It has since grown and re-branded as Guidance College.
- Broader MAS and community activities: Both are frequent speakers and participants in MAS-related events (e.g., MASCON TX conventions, ICNA-MAS conventions) and at venues such as the Islamic Dawah Center in Houston.
Here are some Instagram posts advertising the Muslim Brotherhood-linked speakers:
A Word on Fady Qaddoura
As an aside, the Houston Quran Academy referenced Fady Qaddoura as “the main administrator for the school” in 2008. Further, Qaddoura was very active with the Muslim Brotherhood-founded Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). He was featured in the ISNA Development Foundation 2009 Year in Review Newsletter for assisting with the ISNA Development Foundation “on projects involving annual fund management, evaluation and analysis of donor operations and donor cultivation and stewardship.” He was also a 2009-2010 ISNA Fellow, featured in the May-June 2010 edition of ISNA magazine “Islamic Horizons” for his work as an intern with the Indiana State Senate.
Fady Qaddoura was elected to the State Senate as a progressive democrat. In 2020, he swore in on the Quran and was re-elected in 2024.
Hamed Ghazali’s Deep Muslim Brotherhood Ties
As reported at RAIR, Hamed Ghazali was explicitly named in the Muslim Brotherhood’s infamous 1991 Explanatory Memorandum as a central architect of its plan to “destroy Western civilization from within and sabotage its miserable house.”
The MAYA Connection
In the late 1980s, Hamed Ghazali interviewed key jihadist figures through his Ghazali Islamic Video (GIV) operation, the primary pre-9/11 jihadi recruitment platform in the United States.
In 1988, Ghazali personally interviewed Tamim (Tameem) al-Adnani – the second in command to Abdullah Azzam, the ideological godfather of al-Qaeda and “mentor” to Osama bin Laden – on multiple occasions. Just like Imam Moataz Al-Hallak, al-Adnani openly recruited American Muslims for jihad in Afghanistan, solicited weapons support, and directed funds to the mujahideen network.
Notably, Ghazali also facilitated and distributed footage of Abdullah Azzam speaking at the 1988 Muslim Brotherhood-front Muslim Arab Youth Association (MAYA) convention, featuring an American convert-fighter praising Azzam’s training and calling for more support.
Osama bin Laden’s nephew, Abdullah, is once again connected to this network as one of the founders of MAYA. In 1993, Hamed Ghazali was described as a “MAYA organizer”. At the same conference, senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi predicted that “Islam will occupy Europe once again.”
See the infamous 1991 Explanatory Memorandum here:
Ghazali’s GIV served as a propaganda and recruitment arm for the Afghan jihad ecosystem in the United States. It produced and circulated materials that glorified war and funneled fighters and funds into networks that included Osama bin Laden, who fought alongside Azzam and later founded al-Qaeda. These efforts helped recruit American Muslims and others into the very movement that produced bin Laden and the terror attacks he orchestrated.
Decades later, the same Hamed Ghazali (with his collaborator Main Al Qudah) sits at the center of Texas Islamic education networks now poised to receive public school choice dollars. His documented history of amplifying Azzam and al-Adnani should raise serious questions about whether taxpayer funds are subsidizing the ideological descendants of the very movement that produced Osama bin Laden.
The Ghazali-Al Qudah alliance is the Brotherhood executing The Project’s call to coordinate Islamic groups, institutions, and educational efforts under a single direction. Together, they create a cradle-to-grave system: daycare through university, all Sharia-compliant, all funded in part by American taxpayers.
Exploiting Texas Taxpayer Vouchers to Bankroll the Takeover
Main Al Qudah is positioning his network to seize millions in Texas taxpayer dollars. During a Guidance College podcast from the end of last year, Al Qudah openly celebrated Governor Abbott’s school-choice voucher program for Islamic schools:
“Islamic schools actually have to take full advantage of this program. Muslim parents have to take advantage of this program because one of the main obstacles of sending kids to Islamic schools as we said in the beginning is the tuition fees.”
Al Qudah is echoing the praise also expressed by Hamed Ghazali. As reported at RAIR, Ghazali was featured in a Houston Chronicle article last year, stating that he intends to “increase tuition to the cost of a voucher” at the Houston Quran Academy.
Al Qudah described the program as excellent and urged Muslim parents to send children to Islamic schools using up to $10,000 per student in state funds. With the Al-Huda compound including a K-12 school and Guidance College, the voucher pipeline will flow directly into Brotherhood institutions.
In the same podcast, Al Qudah outlined financial strategies for Islamic schools: secure mega-donors, maintain 10-15 percent annual deficits to keep the community engaged in fundraising, and build endowments from day one. He emphasized starting small, growing grade by grade with the community, and using the voucher program to expand rapidly. He dismissed homeschooling and public schools as insufficient to “preserve the Muslim identity.”
Texas taxpayers will subsidize the very parallel societies designed to reject American values. Al Qudah and Ghazali have spent decades building this infrastructure. The voucher program hands them guaranteed revenue to accelerate it.
The Al-Huda Islamic Center
Main Al Qudah is also president of the Al-Huda Islamic Center, where he is driving construction of the $80 million, 30-acre self-sustaining Islamic mega-compound in Katy farmland. This self-contained parallel society will shield Muslims from birth to death from American laws and culture while advancing the Brotherhood’s subversive strategy to impose a multi-generational conquest of the West.
As reported at RAIR, the Al-Huda project is rising at breakneck speed as a fully autonomous Sharia-adherent enclave featuring a grand mosque accommodating 1,500 worshippers, a K-12 school, an Islamic university, apartments, a health clinic, sports fields, a multipurpose hall, and a strip mall.
He has promised it will serve the Muslim community for generations, creating a “comprehensive hub” for education, marriages, funerals, youth programs, and religious services that keeps families inside the Islamic town with little reason to engage the outside world.
Al Qudah, who personally oversees the vision of this “unique Islamic project” on 30 acres of former farmland in America’s heartland, complete with its own sound system blasting the call to prayer for miles across rural Texas. This is no ordinary mosque but the cornerstone of a long-term takeover designed to expand, insulate, and dominate as specifically called for in the Muslim Brotherhood’s foundational documents, “The Project” and the Explanatory Memorandum.
Parallel Societies and No-Go Zones Are A Part of the Strategy
The Hamas-Linked Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been vocally pushing back on the concept of “parallel societies”, referring to such claims as an “anti-Muslim conspiracy theory”. It appears that CAIR does not want Americans to know that “parallel societies” not only exist, but are explicitly demanded in the Brotherhood’s secret 1982 document known as “The Project“.
The Project directly calls for building parallel Islamic institutions, social services, economic structures, and power centers within Western societies.
The plot, devised by exiled disciples of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, rejects assimilation, enforces Sharia, and serves as a basis for eventual Islamic dominance. Al Qudah, with his documented Muslim Brotherhood family ties and decades of activism, is executing that plan in plain sight.
Read RAIR’s full report on The Project.
A Warning for the West
The $80 million compound in Katy is a warning shot. It represents the successful implementation of a multi-generational strategy to conquer the West from within. By building self-sustaining enclaves and infiltrating legal and educational systems, the Muslim Brotherhood is methodically replacing the American heartland with Sharia-governed territories, also known as “no-go zones” or “parallel societies.”
The residents of Texas and the wider Western world must recognize that these are not mere community centers; they are the foundations of a parallel society designed to eventually supersede the West. Transparency regarding funding, building plans, and the true ideological intent of leaders like Main Al Qudah is no longer a matter of local concern – it is a matter of national survival.
GLOSSARY
Individuals:
- Main Al Qudah: Father and uncle in Muslim Brotherhood; admitted MB activism and Sharia imposition advocacy in Jordan; founder of MAS-Katy (MB-linked); AMJA Resident Fatwa Committee member (fatwas supporting wife-beating, hating kuffar, death for apostasy, jihad funding via zakat); PhD from American Open University; replaced bin Laden network-linked imam at ISAT; longtime collaborator with Hamed Ghazali; building $80M Al-Huda Islamic mega-compound in Katy, Texas.
- Hamed Ghazali: Named in 1991 Muslim Brotherhood Explanatory Memorandum as central architect to “destroy Western civilization from within”; ran Ghazali Islamic Video (GIV), primary pre-9/11 U.S. jihadi recruitment platform; personally interviewed Tamim al-Adnani (second-in-command to “mentor” of Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam); distributed Abdullah Azzam recruitment materials; organizer for MAYA (co-founded by Osama bin Laden’s nephew); Vice President of ISNA; collaborates with Main Al Qudah on Houston Quran Academy, Guidance College, and Texas Islamic education networks seeking taxpayer vouchers.
- Moataz Al-Hallak: Founding imam of Islamic Society of Arlington (ISAT); contact between ISAT members and bin Laden organization; allied with Osama bin Laden secretary Wadih El Hage; recruited for Afghan jihad; listed on Alkifah Refugee Center contacts (linked to 1993 WTC bombers); later Michigan mosque project received $1.7M taxpayer settlement via CAIR.
- Wadih El Hage: Osama bin Laden’s personal secretary; convicted in 1998 U.S. embassy bombings (224 killed); ran “Help Africa People” NGO as bin Laden terrorist cell front in Kenya; ISAT mosque member; funds raised at ISAT mosques.
- Mohammad Salman Farooq Qureshi: ISAT donor; gave $30,000 to “Help Africa People” knowing it funded terrorism; convicted of lying to federal investigators.
- Khalil Meek: Co-founder of MLFA (defended Holy Land Foundation, convicted Hamas funders); scholar and khateeb at ISAT; helped found USCMO (MB umbrella group).
- Hatem Bazian: Chairs MLFA; co-founder of AMP and SJP (MB-linked networks).
- Salah al-Sawy: AMJA secretary general; authored fatwa shielding Hamas; co-founded AOU and Mishkah University (formerly “Sharia Academy of America”); Leads the Medical Center Islamic Society (MCIS) to “Bring Islam to the West”.
- Jaafar Sheikh Idris: Co-founder of AOU; mentored Ali al-Timimi; Salafi ideologue; visa revoked (along with 16 others) after FBI raid on IIASA (Saudi-funded institution).
- Ali al-Timimi: Taught at AOU; mentored by Jaafar Sheikh Idris; led “Virginia Jihad Network”; convicted of soliciting treason and jihad (urging followers to join U.S. designated terror organization Lashkar-e-Taiba and fight Americans post-9/11); sentenced to life in prison, convictions overturned by three judge panel (all appointed by Barack Obama).
- Anwar Hajjaj: President of AOU; led Taibah International Aid Association (U.S. Treasury-designated al-Qaeda funder, co-founded with Osama bin Laden’s nephew); co-founded U.S. WAMY with Osama Bin Laden’s nephew, Abdullah bin Laden.
- Abdullah A. bin Laden (Osama bin Laden’s nephew): Co-founded Taibah (al-Qaeda funding) and U.S. WAMY with Anwar Hajjaj; co-founded MAYA; FBI maintained national security file; received special post-9/11 evacuation.
- Tamim (Tameem) al-Adnani: Second-in-command to Abdullah Azzam (bin Laden’s mentor); interviewed by Hamed Ghazali for U.S. jihad recruitment; solicited funds and fighters for Afghan mujahideen.
- Abdullah Azzam: Ideological godfather and mentor of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda; recruitment speeches and materials distributed by Hamed Ghazali at MAYA events.
- Fady Qaddoura: Main administrator of Houston Quran Academy (under Al Qudah/Ghazali network); active with ISNA; Received ISNA Fellowship; elected Indiana State Senator (progressive Democrat, sworn in on Quran).
- Waleed Al-Maneese: AMJA member; imam of Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center (produced at least five fighters for ISIS and al-Shabaab).
- Waleed Basyouni: AMJA member; publicly stated “Hamas is not a terrorist group.”
- Hatem al-Haj: AMJA member; authored fatwa endorsing death penalty for apostasy.
Organizations:
- Muslim Brotherhood: Global network providing ideological backbone for Hamas, al-Qaeda, and Islamic State; authored “The Project” (1982) for gradual conquest and 1991 Explanatory Memorandum for destroying Western civilization from within via parallel societies.
- Al-Qaeda: Founded by Osama bin Laden; direct ties through El Hage, Taibah, WAMY, Alkifah, recruitment by Ghazali/Al-Hallak networks, and American Open University figures.
- Islamic Society of Arlington (ISAT): Pre-9/11 hub for bin Laden network; hosted El Hage and Al-Hallak; invited Main Al Qudah.
- Help Africa People: Bin Laden terrorist cell front run by Wadih El Hage; funds raised at ISAT.
- Alkifah Refugee Center: Brooklyn Afghan jihad hub linked to 1993 World Trade Center bombing convicts; ISAT contacts.
- Muslim American Society (MAS): Documented historical and ideological ties to Muslim Brotherhood; operates Katy/Houston institutions led by Al Qudah and Ghazali.
- Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA): Defended Holy Land Foundation Hamas funders (convicted); helped Main Al Qudah gain legal status; co-founded by Khalil Meek, co-founder of USCMO; chaired by SJF founder Hatem Bazian.
- Holy Land Foundation (HLF): Largest U.S. Muslim charity; convicted of providing material support to Hamas; Defended by MLFA.
- Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA): Imports and promotes Sharia; Main Al Qudah on Resident Fatwa Committee; members defend Hamas and endorse apostasy executions and jihad funding.
- American Open University (AOU): Salafi/MB-influenced; Main Al Qudah’s PhD source; ties to al-Timimi, Idris, Hajjaj, Taibah, and WAMY.
- Taibah International Aid Association: U.S. Treasury-designated al-Qaeda funding organization; led by Anwar Hajjaj; co-founded with Abdullah bin Laden.
- World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) U.S. affiliate: Co-founded by Anwar Hajjaj and Abdullah bin Laden; FBI raided for terrorism financing; supported al-Qaeda ideologically and militarily; Main Al Qudah served as General Secretary.
- Muslim Arab Youth Association (MAYA): Co-founded by Abdullah bin Laden; hosted Azzam speeches; Hamed Ghazali organizer.
- Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR): Hamas-linked; helped secure $1.7M taxpayer settlement for Moataz Al-Hallak’s Michigan mosque after pressuring Obama administration.
- Islamic Society of North America (ISNA): Unindicted co-conspirator in Holy Land Foundation Hamas trial; ties to Ghazali and Fady Qaddoura.
- Houston Quran Academy / Guidance College / Al-Huda Islamic Center: Led by Al Qudah and Ghazali (MAS/MB network); building parallel Sharia society; seeking Texas taxpayer vouchers.
- Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) / American Muslims for Palestine (AMP): Co-founded by Hatem Bazian; tied to MB networks.
- U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO): Umbrella group that includes multiple organizations with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, such as CAIR and AMP.
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