Orlando Airport’s Sharia Prayer Rooms: Florida Was the Test Run for Red-State Islamization (Video)

Nearly a decade before Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport made headlines for installing a Sharia-compliant Islamic prayer complex, another major transportation hub in a Republican stronghold had already laid the groundwork.

In 2016, Orlando International Airport quietly spent more than $250,000 in taxpayer funds to construct gender-segregated Islamic prayer rooms, making it one of the earliest red-state airports to accommodate Islamic religious practices in such a formal and exclusive way.

The facilities, located within the airport’s Terminal B, include features typically found in a mosque: separate spaces for men and women, wudu stations for ritual ablution, shoe and luggage racks, and directional signs marking all four cardinal points, all to assist Muslim travelers in facing Mecca during prayers.

According to airport officials at the time, the project aimed to enhance “traveler comfort” by catering to the growing number of Muslim visitors and residents. What was left unmentioned, however, was the stark contrast between this American display of religious accommodation and the reality in many Islamic-majority nations.

In countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Iran, Christian chapels, Jewish synagogues, or Hindu prayer rooms are nonexistent in public airports, and in many cases, public worship by non-Muslims is outright criminalized.

In Saudi Arabia, public expressions of any religion other than Islam are banned by law. Proselytizing is punishable by imprisonment, deportation, or corporal punishment, and even private Christian gatherings have led to arrests. In Pakistan, blasphemy laws are so extreme that simply reading the Bible in public has resulted in Christians being arrested and charged, as seen in the 2021 case of two men detained for holding scripture in a park.

In Iran, conversion from Islam is considered apostasy, and Christian converts are regularly harassed or imprisoned. A Jewish or Christian traveler openly praying in Riyadh, Islamabad, or Tehran could face detention or worse.

Yet in stark contrast, American airports — funded by Christian, Jewish, secular, and Muslim taxpayers alike are actively constructing Islamic-only prayer facilities, complete with wudu stations, gender segregation, and religious infrastructure that does not extend the same courtesy to other faiths. The hypocrisy is glaring: Islamic nations enforce their religious supremacy with an iron fist, while the West bankrolls Islamization in the name of tolerance.

This double standard has raised growing concerns among non-Muslims who argue that such developments represent not religious tolerance, but ideological submission.

“This is not about fairness or interfaith harmony,” said one religious liberty advocate. “It’s about advancing an agenda, one that’s been spelled out clearly by the Muslim Brotherhood: to ‘destroy Western civilization from within’ by gradually embedding Islamic norms into our institutions.”

While interfaith chapels have long existed at many U.S. airports, the Orlando facility was notable for being exclusively Islamic in both design and function. Its creation — and the public funding behind it — marked a significant turning point in the steady Islamization of American public infrastructure.

The pattern has since spread. In early 2024, Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport unveiled a nearly identical Sharia-compliant complex, again featuring gender-segregated prayer rooms and ritual washing areas — this time with support from CAIR-Houston, the Hamas-linked organization named by the DOJ in the largest terrorism-financing trial in U.S. history.

As more public institutions adopt these accommodations, critics warn that the U.S. is drifting away from religious neutrality and toward a policy of one-sided appeasement — granting religious infrastructure to Islamic travelers that is neither offered to nor reciprocated by nations of origin.

For now, America continues to fund what Islamic countries strictly prohibit — and the public is only beginning to wake up.

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